Becoming the kind of human a horse seeks to be with
Posted in Equine Touch, Horses, Humans, Travel on Apr 17th, 2012
Vicki and I have just returned from England, where we attended a three-day course to learn the basic principles of a non-diagnostic, non-invasive, hands-on system of bodywork for equines, which we hope will ultimately help us to generate income in the future by helping horses to feel better and their owners to learn how to […]
Posted in animal communication, Animals, dogs, Horses, Humans, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling, Magical Connection, Travel, true connection on Mar 24th, 2012
Vicki and I have just returned from a trip to Germany, where we visited new and old friends. The trip was relaxing and most enjoyable, while the company was superb, overall ‘gemütlich’ as the Germans might say. The occasion has prompted me to share with you a few snippets of experience and information which are […]
As you have just noticed, 2012 is a leap year and that elusive 29th day of February has come and gone. This year that day marked the twentieth anniversary of our departure from the Netherlands in search of…. What is it that we seek so badly, that we are sometimes prepared to engage in what […]
Posted in Anaïs, dog, Dubu, Horses, Humans, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling, Michael Bevilacqua, Noora Ehnqvist, Travel on Nov 10th, 2011
We have all had them at some stage or another: hard lessons, the kind that you instinctively know are right but which you only absorb as a result of your failure to act intuitively in the first place. Hard lessons tend to penetrate your very core and you find yourself hard put to resist the […]
Posted in Emile Voest, Horses, Humans, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling, Travel on Sep 11th, 2011
Emerging with more wisdom and less money from what in more detached moments I sometimes look back on as our Hempfling soap opera while shaking my head disbelievingly, our preoccupations have shifted to the twin concerns of what to do and where to live. As one blog reader has pointed out, we have already undergone […]
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.