Merging Boundaries
Holistic horsemanship is an approach to horse care and/or training, which considers the whole picture. Looking at everything you have in place, and how what you are doing with your horse influences your relationship. For example:
These are some of the management questions that are important in holistic horsemanship. There are also handling and training considerations such as:
It is important that this approach is free of judgment of ourselves and others, and rather that it is a wish to learn alongside the horses for the sake of the partnership between us.
Jewel and her healing story illustrates what is possible with love and faith in potential itself. I have been exploring distance healing since I realised that it is possible to connect with energetic systems wherever you are. The energetic world is the source of everything we can see and hear and feel around us, existing below and beyond thought.
Cheyenne and I were able to experience a perfect trim together when it was no longer my duty to get it done. She had taken responsibility for her own feet, when I realised I could give it to her, and what had previously been such a trial became easy.
Following the energetic connection has gradually become my vocation over the last five years. Before this purpose became so clear, I had been exploring how to tune into other animals energy, and people, for a long time. I had limited this to the category of ‘healing’ in my mind and in my life. Then one day it occurred to me to see if I could feel it while I was actually riding a horse.
Horses have a natural tendency to put themselves in what could be called an ‘uncooperative balance’ relative to people when they are defending themselves. We may feel that they don’t have any need to defend themselves in their interactions with us, but often our demands are threatening to them. For example putting them in a … Read more
Therapeutic grooming is an exercise in mindfulness. It is an opportunity to express our willingness to listen to and comprehend the horse. There is no agenda other than the horse’s well-being.