Becoming the kind of human a horse seeks to be with
Posted in Anaïs, body awareness, Horses, Humans, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling, Pip, riding, spiritual awareness, true connection on Oct 27th, 2014
Some time after I started the series, Towards Riding (see my post entitled Towards Riding 1: The Horse on this blog and raised the question of To Ride or Not to Ride (see my post entitled Towards Riding 2 – To Ride or Not to Ride?), Vicki drew my attention to the fact that some […]
Posted in Horses, Humans, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling, Magical Connection, Michael Bevilacqua, Nevzorov, Pip, riding, true connection, Trust on Mar 19th, 2014
It was a bit of a toss-up, determining where to start on the question of riding. My instinct tells me that Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling is right: you start with the human and not the horse, for ultimately it is the human that needs to change and to rediscover what it is to be human if […]
Posted in body awareness, Eckhart Tolle, Horses, Humans, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling, spiritual awareness, true connection, Trust on Jun 18th, 2013
For the past two to three weeks I have been corresponding with someone who has been involved in ongoing discussions on Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling’s official Facebook page. Although the precise nature of these discussions varies, the debate can essentially be reduced to the question of what is required of an individual to become the type […]
Posted in Carolyn Resnick, Horses, Humans, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling, Linda Kohanov, Magical Connection, Michael Bevilacqua, Stina Herberg, true connection on Feb 27th, 2013
Since my visit to Ian and his horses at the beginning of the year, I have found myself frequently reflecting on the changing relations between horses and humans, especially the type of humans involved. By all accounts there is a surge in the numbers of humans who are actively seeking a relationship with horses which […]
Posted in dog, Forest Garden Estate, Horses, Humans, Magical Connection, Michael Bevilacqua, true connection, Trust on Jan 9th, 2013
So you have decided to live intuitively. You try to tune into what is presumably your destiny by observing the signs in and around you. Now is the time to do so, for the world is counting down to a new year. First you get an urge to take up a long-standing invitation to visit […]
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.