Becoming the kind of human a horse seeks to be with
Posted in 2Moons, Anaïs, Horses, Humans, Imke Spilker, Intuition, Island, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling, Michael Bevilacqua, Petra Vlasblom on Dec 22nd, 2011
There has probably been a time in your life – possibly more than one occasion – when a serendipitous collection of circumstances ignited a spark of acute awareness of what comes next. And if you had followed that spark, had lived it like a horse as unpremeditatedly as it had occurred, what would have happened? […]
Posted in dog, Dubu, Horses, Humans, Island, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling on Nov 30th, 2011
The past 10 days have given me cause for a great deal of reflection. Firstly there has been the death of Dubu, which has left a huge, gaping vacuum in our lives. Secondly, I have received an email from Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling’s senior body awareness coach (with whom we would have now been sharing a […]
Posted in Education, Horses, Humans, Island, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling on Aug 29th, 2011
KFH: 1 September both Compact Schooling I and the One-Year-Schooling will start. My heart is with those who are going.
Posted in Island, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling, Travel on Jun 25th, 2011
Watch! There he is in all his grace and power, dancing the stallion across the sunlit meadow. Resolute but gentle, he guides the muscles and hooves in a rhythmic flow above the grass. Eye to eye, horse and human celebrate life in a waltz that only they can dance together. We watch. The joy, the […]
We know so much about horses but have such little understanding of the horse. Understanding the horse’s nature allows us to pursue choice rather than control, connection instead of coercion, communication as opposed to conditioning. This is a reality that I now experience with my own horses. A path to the horse is open to all of us. Simply discover the power of being with horses. Is it not time to be fully human … for them, for ourselves?
I have learned to listen to horses speak through their movements, their expressions and ultimately their energy along with much that has been recorded about them. Listening to horses speak has changed my life and taught me a great deal. This book contains a little of what I have learned from horses while listening to them speak. And much of it is startlingly different from what we take for granted.
Urgently in need of a meaningful change of life, a man decides to cross the world together with his wife, a horse and a dog to spend a year training full-time with Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling , arguably the most popular horse trainer in the world based on social media statistics. He expects it to be life-changing. It is. These are his reflections.