Becoming the kind of human a horse seeks to be with
Posted in Equine Touch, Horses, Humans, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling, Michael Bevilacqua, Pip, saddle fitting, Stormy May on Jun 4th, 2016
Insistently he paws the ground, his strong black neck rounded down to a bulging shoulder, a hint of the powerful magnificence he once must have epitomised as a stallion. “Surely you cannot leave before I have you again?!” Is this what his powerful posturing means? She inclines her head gently in his direction. He snorts […]
Posted in Chuck Mintzlaff, Equine Touch, Friendship Training, Horses, Humans, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling, Mark Rashid, Michael Bevilacqua, Nevzorov, riding, Stormy May on Apr 16th, 2014
My last post (Towards Riding 1 – The Horse) elicited two comments which have profoundly affected my thoughts in the past few weeks and in doing so have helped create the basis for this post. The first comment came from Peggy on the east coast of Australia and it is this: “if you have a […]
Posted in Carolyn Resnick, Horses, Humans, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling, Linda Kohanov, Mark Rashid, Nevzorov, Stormy May on Mar 17th, 2013
In the past few months Vicki and I have embarked on yet another path to the horse, one that has led me to contemplate all the other paths that we have followed, and which have ultimately brought us full circle to the human whom we aspire to be. Before devoting a post to this, I […]
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.