Becoming the kind of human a horse seeks to be with
Posted in Horses, Humans, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling, Leadership, Mark Rashid, Trust on Sep 19th, 2012
In 2010 Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling published a book called It is Not I Who Seek the Horse, the Horse Seeks Me, in which he rejects conventional and natural horsemanship, proposing instead a way which facilitates the free development of the horse. Ten years earlier Mark Rashid had already done the same in essence, when he […]
Posted in Being, Dubu, Education, Frédéric Pignon, Horses, Humans, Imke Spilker, Intuition, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling, Leadership, Michael Bevilacqua, The Smudge, Trust on Jul 23rd, 2012
Take a year off and go and sort yourself out. This is the kind of advice that Vicki and a number of friends and acquaintances received from Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling while studying with him at his Akedah International school on the island of Lyø in Denmark. And this is precisely what we did. We took […]
Posted in Anaïs, Frédéric Pignon, Horses, Humans, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling, Leadership, Magical Connection, Pip, true connection, Trust on Apr 30th, 2012
There are times when you may horse around with friends just for the fun of it and you may have a good time. Then there are times when you may embark on a course of interaction with another creature motivated by the noblest of intentions, yet with hindsight you may feel that you only ended […]
Posted in Being, Education, Eva Roemaat, Horses, Humans, Intuition, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling, Leadership, Lungeing, Magical Connection, Michael Bevilacqua, true connection, Trust on Mar 12th, 2012
So what is that additional element which marks a true as opposed to a mechanical connection between a horse and a human? Which differentiates a connection between a horse and a Monty Roberts or a Pat Parelli, on the one hand, from that between a horse and a Michael Bevilacqua, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling, Frédéric Pignon […]
Posted in Frédéric Pignon, Horses, Humans, Imke Spilker, Intuition, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling, Leadership, Michael Bevilacqua, true connection, Trust on Mar 10th, 2012
It seems that the more I have anything to do with horses, the more I keep coming back to humans and in particular, myself. When I discovered a new way of being with horses a few years ago, what appealed to me most was the new way in which they started to relate to me […]
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.