Books with Spirit – Joyfulness between horses and people

Here is an email from Heidi about Tilly’s dramatic float loading problem, the accident when Tilly was forced on the float with ropes,  the terror that Tilly experiences now and the subsequent threat to her life. 

We have decided to set up Heidi’s emails and my replies about Tilly’s dramatic float loading problem as an on-going lesson here on the blog, so that others may benefit from the on-going lesson.

Click here for Heidi’s email and my reply.

I Just Say YES! to this footage of Carolyn Resnick playing with the young stallion Panadero.  This is not the normal footage of Panadero that you see making the rounds. 

It fits my image of what I Just Say YES! to, because of the obviously beautiful relationship between Carolyn and the horse, because of the way Panadero goes from being playful and expressive, to instantly listening and doing what she asks, because his stride is soft and rhythmic most of the time, his back is elevated most of the time and he is carrying himself beautifully most of the time.  I can just see how this relationship on the ground is going to translate to stunningly beautiful saddle work. Sheer poetry…

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Horses have often been reviled by environmentalists as causing degradation to the Australian environment, so it was refreshing to listen to Graeme Hand explain how they were the answer to some of Australia’s environmental problems. 

Graeme is an agricultural scientist, radical by some standards, who specialises in a big picture, holistic approach to land and stock management – helping people regenerate native pastures in a way that sequesters more carbon than trees do.  And he says the fastest and easiest and cheapest way to do that is with hard footed animals such as horses and cattle.  

Yep, I agree with you, that’s a big statement, but he claims he can back that up. 

Certainly, what he explained to a bunch of us here at Tanjil South last Friday, will cost us very little, save a heap of money and make a significant contribution to saving the environment at the same time.  Yes that really is right, cost little, save heaps and be seriously environmentally progressive.  

Just picture it, us destructive horse owners (yes, I am being facetious) leading the way in farming for the future of the earth itself!

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Whether it’s ordinary flu and you’re just having a fright for nothing or whether it’s swine flu, these instructions are for you to make a homeopathic to combat whatever virus you or your loved one has. 

I guess you’re wondering why you’re finding this article on a website that looks like it’s about horses.  That’s because, on top of being a writer of great books, I work as a “healer”.  I have been training and working as an alternative medicine pratcitioner for nearly 14 years now, in quite a large number of different alternative therapies and am a specialist in both animals and people.  You can look up more about me and what I do, click on the “the author” button above.

Click here for the homeopathic medicine instructions.

Last January, in a clinic here at Tanjil South, we had something happen that led to a discovery that will have major implications in the world of horses, horse training and horse-human relationships.

We were doing a saddling demonstrsation on young Boots, showing the clinic participants how we went about getting him back into his deep comfort zone after a fright with his saddle – when we suddenly realised that all the horses in the clinic were watching and giving physical signs that they were either releasing resistance or processing old trauma. 

One of these watching horses I had categorized as one of the ten most scared horses I had ever come across.  He was so profoundly effected, that afterwards he was like a “clean slate” – like a baby foal starting again, but this time with the opportunity to do it better.

Click here to read the rest of this story about how you and your horse can benefit from this discovery. (I’m smiling as I write this because as Iwrote about this on our discussion group and talked with like minded friends, I discovered that other people had made this discovery too!)