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May 22, 2013
Horses serve humanity as muses, teachers, healers, friends and partners yet society-at-large tends to value them as trainable but disposable livestock. If horses mean much more to you than that, please join us via the brown tab above, share your…Continue reading
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A Ride to Enlightenment
June 5, 2013
“Retired” What is it that we find so wonderfully attractive about horses? Being diverse creatures, I suppose each of us finds what we need when we need it. We discover different aspects of what horses bring to our lives as…Continue reading
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What does your mirror show you?
May 22, 2013
Koelle Simpson tells a powerful story about a horse who taught her how to move from a place of nervous fear and a lack of confidence—and having plenty of evidence to support it—to a place of calm, peaceful awareness with…Continue reading
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When Trust Trumps Instinct
May 22, 2013
In the video below, from Darin Gabbert’s Your Best Horse Relationship series, he describes a beautiful moment we often blow right past because we tend to focus on the larger goal surrounding it. Now that I’ve had them brought to…Continue reading
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Vicarious Beach Ride
May 16, 2013
I love the artfulness of this video of a ride along Downhill Beach in Northern Ireland. The horse’s extended trot…the rider’s ability to stay seated through his rear and spooks…and I envision this horse’s next beach ride made even more…Continue reading
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Painting Horses in the Circle of Life
April 21, 2013
Devin From Heaven Never before in human history, have humans had so much history! That may be stating the obvious but it also may be why humans have such difficulty staying in the present. Horses remember people and events in…Continue reading
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Cavalia’s Odysseo — The Stuff of Dreams
April 8, 2013
Cavalia invited talented equine photographer Shelley Paulson to Atlanta to capture the artful essence of its newest show called Odysseo. Cavalia describes the show as based on a “Dream Voyage”: This new production is a celebration of the beauty and…Continue reading
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Beast of Burden
March 7, 2013
A view of my horse from across the back of her friend, a sweet mule… This picture I took, on my horse’s birthday (and shortly after a long weekend at the Minnesota Horse Expo), made me stop and think about…Continue reading
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How horses help non-horse people
March 7, 2013
An organization called Herd by a Horse in Bernville, Pennsylvania has a great website for learning and sharing what Equine Assisted Learning and Equine Assisted Psychotherapy are all about. The site addresses why this type of healing is for everyone,…Continue reading
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Listening vs Judging
March 4, 2013Darin Gabbert tells a great but all-too-familiar story about how often humans jump to the “disobedience” conclusion when our horse is really just trying to tell us something. What if we learned how to listen first? Your Best Horse Relationship…Continue reading
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What the World Needs Now: Equine Angels
March 2, 2013I was reading about foalrescue.com and the great work Frank Weller is doing, along with Anna Twinney to help rescue the many foals that come out of the PMU industry—fostering, rescuing and teaching people how to adopt and raise them…Continue reading
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Veterans Protecting Wild Horses
February 28, 2013
Among the survivors of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina an unlikely brotherhood has emerged in the small mountain town of Livno. A community of marginalized veterans have found an unlikely path to rebirth. As paramilitary leader at the young age of…Continue reading
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They’re all God’s horses.
February 7, 2013
I was only a kid – about six or seven – when I first discovered the incredible world of horses. My grandfather was hitching up his team of Percherons to go out and pick rocks, and waved me over to…Continue reading
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Jumping. Galloping. Bareback. Bridleless.
January 24, 2013
Delight in this video of Alycia Burton, 24, from New Zealand. She trained this 7-year old “rodeo-bred” pinto crossbreed she calls Banjo (aka Classic Goldrush) “from scratch” in two years to be this responsive and trusting. She rides so effortlessly…and…Continue reading
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Can horses cry?
January 23, 2013
Our gentleman Thoroughbred “Murphy”… He’s a little long in the tooth, and his days on the racing oval just a dim memory from the past. But, he’s the “senior” horse at Higher Trails, being the first equine partner to arrive. On arrival…Continue reading
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The Path of the Horse movie
January 13, 2013
No matter where you are on the path with your horse, this hour-long movie of a successful horse trainer’s evolution in awareness about horses will make you think. When I rented it several years ago, it confirmed what I hoped…Continue reading
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Rescued horses rescuing humans
January 9, 2013Horse in Miracles…a brilliant name for an equine-assisted therapy program at Sugar Plum Ranch in Ocklawaha, Florida! Jennifer Elliott, a registered nurse with over 20 years in horse training and Clarice Ruttenber, a certified and licensed mental health professional, have…Continue reading
It’s all about the relationship.
January 8, 2013Here’s the latest in a video series I’m enjoying by Darin Gabbert of Denver, Colorado. He shares how the time and energy we first put into building a strong relationship with our horses determines our rate of success with the…Continue reading
Hey Nevada! Here’s an alternative to too many stray horses.
January 4, 2013
I asked Governor Sandoval of Nevada to get a little more creative about how to protect his state’s wild horses, if keeping them wild and healthy is no longer an option. He’ll never entice me with gambling, but a few…Continue reading
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Healed by a herd of horses in the UK
January 4, 2013Dare to Live, an equine-assisted therapy program in Sussex, England, is in the British Forces News for helping veterans.