Books with Spirit – Joyfulness between horses and people

Yesterday, I was working with a horse who had just arrived from Queensland for The Quilty, who was tying up.  The Quilty is a 100 mile endurance ride and it’s being held at Tonimbuk this year, relatively close to where I live. 

Tying up is a painful muscle condition, with cramping,  stiff movement, they don’t want to move when it’s really set in. Their heart rate is elevated and they are breathing faster.  The horse is in serious pain when they are tying up. 

There is a strong school of thought that nervousness of the horse is a big contributing factor to horses that tie up. 

The method of communication that I write about in Zen Connection  with Horses and teach in clinics,  usually makes it possible  for a nervous horse to become a confident horse quite quickly.   At the very least, they become a lot more confident.  It’s very powerful.

I had just finished a healing session on this tying up and the lovely little horse was walking with much looser steps and looking more relaxed in the eye. 

I decided to teach her rider how to listen to her horse’s emotional communication so that I could go home for the night knowing that the right things would happen at the right time – so that she would know when to walk her, when to rest etc. 

This incident reminded me of how easy it is to teach people to do this and made me decide to post this helpful article here on the blog. 

Click here to read the rest of this article about how you can notice when your horse is communicating with you emotionally.