Becoming the kind of human a horse seeks to be with
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 Education, Equine Touch, Horses, Humans, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling, Michael Bevilacqua, Pip, riding, Trust on Feb 15th, 2014
February is hurtling along at a pace of knots, my days are fiercely full, and I am flying on a high. How is this remotely possible, you might ask, if you learn that we are coursing through what may go down in the statistics as one of the warmest, wettest winters in recorded memory, experiencing […]
Posted in Chuck Mintzlaff, Corroboree Equus, Friendship Training, Horses, Humans, Michael Bevilacqua on Oct 9th, 2013
On Friday, 27 September 2013 people from around Australia began to gather in the small town of Tallangatta on the banks of the state of Victoria’s Lake Hume. Some brought horses with them, while others did not. What they all had in common though was that they could look their horses in the eye and […]
Posted in Horses, Humans, Jasmijn Wauters, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling, Michael Bevilacqua, Noora Ehnqvist on Sep 26th, 2013
During the evening of Sunday, 15 September, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling’s remaining seven one-year students sent me a public letter through the comments section of this blog. It is a letter which challenges some of the most fundamental principles and values which I have come to espouse through some of the developments that I have recorded […]
Posted in body awareness, Carolyn Resnick, Chuck Mintzlaff, Corroboree Equus, Frédéric Pignon, Friendship Training, Horses, Humans, Imke Spilker, Intuition, Jasmijn Wauters, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling, Leadership, Mark Rashid, Michael Bevilacqua, Nevzorov, Noora Ehnqvist, spiritual awareness, Travel on Sep 14th, 2013
As we move into the latter half of September, I am acutely conscious of a convergence of developments which are inviting me to contemplate what is required of the human, if the latter is to become someone whom a horse wishes to be with. Not only does this question penetrate to the core of my […]
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.