Riding is the next step in our relationship with our horse. Working with relationship on the ground comes first, then the saddle.
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Category Archives: bodywork
Feel invisible threads of connection with your horse
The herd grazes on the high desert plains, snatching mouthfuls of grasses if there are any. When they are thirsty, they are generally thirsty as a group, because the water hole may be some distance from where they are grazing.
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That horse is gonna kill you!
This is a refrain that I heard recently from an owner who was startled by the news. It’s not new; I’ve heard it many times before, spoken to owners with horses who have some behavioral issue. What is going on here?
Sharing heart and mind with your horse on a trail ride
I have recently written about the trail in The Trail as a Metaphor for Life.
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3 case studies address horses’ fears
As a follow-on to last week’s blog, 10 Tips for Working with A Fearful Horse, I collected three very different case studies of fearful horses. With each, the treatment was slightly different, adjusted to the situation and the fear the horse was experiencing.
Healing horses from 500 miles away
For a number of years now, I’ve been doing distance bodywork on horses and people. Honestly, it doesn’t matter how far away those horses are, they can still greatly benefit from this help both anatomically and physiologically.
The honesty of the horse
Horses and their honesty, which sometimes translates to their inability to be polite, is energetically one of the things that differentiates horses from people and also from dogs. With horses, mostly what you see is what you get. But it takes time to know what you are looking at.
What does your horse work say about you?
I recently became aware of how the Liberty work I teach really expose to us not only our greatest strengths and weaknesses, but also what parts of the work we are drawn to.
When your horse has had enough
From the standpoint of a bodyworker, when the horse has “had enough” is pretty obvious. But even so, students will continue to press on an area and worry over it even when the horse has moved away. Why don’t they see it? Feel it?
Diary of a liberty horse coach
Many people ask me how often I do liberty work with my horses, and do I do it before I ride, or after?
