Books with Spirit – Joyfulness between horses and people

Do you know, anyone who still thinks of horses as dumb animals in this day and age , should have been out riding with me yesterday.   My friend Jane’s horse Shea, systematically worked on me, physically worked on me, loosening up my “bad” knee and the cause of my bad knee, up higher in my pelvis – and last night was the best night’s sleep that I had with this sore knee in weeks.

I was happy to be able to help Shea in return, with a noisy dam water drainage pipe under the road that she had a fear of, by doing that approach and retreat and then  just sit there and wait for the Chew exercise that I describe discovering with Bobby in Bobby’s Diaries – Straight from the Horse’s Mouth to You. 

For those of you who haven’t read that book, I discovered (Bobby told me!) this brilliant method of dealing with things that my horse is afraid of when I am out riding 

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