Books with Spirit - Horse Riding

Cheryl, our New Zealand clinic host at Wainuiomata has a very peaceful herd of horses.  They usually run together and the humans can walk amongst them all in absolute safety with all the horses kind of mooching around quietly as the humans move amongst them.  I noticed this particularly on my first visit to her place.  In my herd, I have to insist that nobody play dominance games when humans are in the paddock, but Cheryl and her horses have created this lovely safe and feeling safe environment.  (I think I’m going to have to figure out how she does that and create it here at home too!)

During the clinic, it was much easier to put the new horse, little Nugget, who had been elsewhere on the property for a week by now, with his mate Apples into the paddock with Whisky.  ”Promise me you’ll look after him” Cheryl said.  And Whisky agreed.  Cheryl has been working on excellent communication with Whisky for some time now.

So, they put Nugget into the paddock and within a minute or two, Whisky had asked Nugget to move, Nugget said “no”, turned around, backed up to Whisky and kicked out.  Then the thud of hooves smacking into flesh could be heard and felt from clear across the paddock as Whisky gave young Nugget a hiding.

Becx, Nuggets owner, was wringing her hands in distress at her baby being on the receiving end of such violence and Cheryl was upset too at what she saw as Whisky breaking his promise.  “But, Whisky”, she said, “you promised to look after him!”

“I AM looking after him” said Whisky.

Then the pennies started dropping into place. Becx had been in the paddock with her children who had always been safe amongst this herd that never pushed each other around or played games amongst the humans, when Nugget had chased another horse towards one of the children.  It only stopped in time because of its own effort to not run over the child. 

“Oh my God”, said Becx, as she realised that Whisky was actually protecting her and the children by establishing the ground rules of this herd in this really special place.  “Thank you Whiskey!”

You know, we say everything happens for a reason, but sometimes it’s from a kind of empty place, with no real hope of knowing what the reason was.  In this extraordinary communication with our horses, we develop the ability to find out what the reason really is.  Like Cheryl and Becx did, with Whisky and Nugget that day. 

Now, you might think that this story is a bit “out there”, but there are more and more people who are “hearing” their horses in this extraordinary way … consciously and deliberately.  “If you want to hear your horse like Cheryl and Becx and learn the secrets of the great horsepeople of the world click here to buy Bobby’s Diaries right now