If you’re wondering whether this book will really give you what you and your horse are looking for, then have a look at this email. I understandably love to hear these really lovely stories.
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.
If you do, I have been trying to get her at her “yahoo.ca” address for over a month now. Lori bought a Zen Connection but didn’t leave her address for me to post out her book.
If anyone knows her – can you ask her to contact me, please, jenny@bookswithspirit.com ?
Here is a query about stringhalt from a reader that came in through the website. I thought I would share my answer with you.
“I was just reading about bobbys case of stringhalt. My thoroughbred also has stringhalt. I’ve taken him out of the paddock and given him a mineral block and he has improved. The only time it’s noticable now is when he makes the transition to a trot from a canter. He has also dropped quite a lot of weight so I’m now hard feeding him and I’m just not sure if thats gunna make the stringhalt worse so I thought I’d ask your advice. He has a round bale of grass hay in his paddock and I hard feed him chaf mixed with hygains honey bee. Any advise would be greatly appreciated.”
Once your horse has discovered their deep comfort zone, their back will start changing shape for the better, sometimes quite dramatically. In every clinic I teach, I see horses backs healing under our eyes, without anything else happening except this extraordinary connection of horse and rider.
Click here to read about how you can help your horse strengthen his back for the saddle work.
First of all, why should we want to do such a thing?
· As as an animal specialist in alternative therapies, with a passion for horses, I am constantly working to reverse the damage that the harsh worming chemicals do to animal’s systems, on one occasion, fighting for the horse’s life and that was directly caused by a chemical wormer.
· I see many, many animals (mostly horses and dogs) who have high worm burdens when they have been chemically wormed regularly, some on very expensive veterinary preparations. So chemical worming preparations don’t always work as well as we would like them to.
· Chemical wormers kill the “critters” in the soil that are essential for the health and robustness of pasture/plant life. i.e. from tiny insects to worms, to dung beetles, to microbes. This is MUCH more important than I ever realised.
Those of you who have read Zen Connection with Horses, will be aware that Bobby has been out in the paddock, doing nothing, for a bit over a year while he grew a complete new hoof.
Of course, it was complete coincidence that his major foot problem came when I wouldn’t listen to him when he was saying “ride Matt” “ride Matt” for months. … yeah right!
Anyway, I have had some pretty interesting insights whilst bringing Bobby back to “work” the Zen Connection way. For those of you who haven’t read the book yet, Zen Connection with Horses came from obeying Bobby’s strong request that I “ride Matt”. So Zen Connection is Matt’s book.
Bobby’s been what they call a “short horse”. That’s a horse who when things aren’t right, doesn’t move forwards. I have come to understand quite clearly what made him like that – and in all kinds of ways, it was me.
Amongst other causes not important right now, in my natural horsemanship training I completely misunderstood the purpose of getting the horse to stand still while we do stuff to them – like throwing ropes, flapping plastic bags and cracking whips. And I completely misunderstood that sleepy look that Bobby got when I was doing these things.
That sleepy look was about putting up with it, rather than about being completely comfortable about what I was doing.
Using the Not Quite Right that I describe in Zen Connection with Horses, I have discovered that Bobby was standing still and putting up with an awful lot of stuff that was not in his comfort zone. I am astounded at how generous he was to write Bobby’s Diaries when there was still so much there.
I am astounded at how generous he has been all his life to politely hold his feet to be done when it was never really in his comfort zone and I am astounded about a whole host of other everyday things that were not completely in his comfort zone.
I misunderstood Bobby, when he was prepared to put up with something – when he was being generous enough to put up with something – I misunderstood that as being in his comfort zone.
When you are just putting up with something, do you feel really happy about doing it? I thought not… It’s kind of a contradiction isn’t it? And when you’re just putting up with something, do you think you get as much enjoyment out of that situation as is possible? Hmmm I thought not too….
So when I understood what was happening and looked for Bobby to be really happy about everything that I do with him, not just be generous enough to put up with it, then our relationship moved to a new level.
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!)
When I’m explaining to people about Bowen muscle therapy, I often describe it as the best muscular-skeletal work in the world.
And when you use the pendulum to decide which Bowen move is going to be most effective and in what order to do them in – and then combine that with learning how to hear horses and develop your overall skills as a “healer”, then you have a very powerful method of healing.
So, that’s what this course in November teaches. 3 days of learning how to do the Bowen muscle therapy “moves”, learning how to use a pendulum, experiencing how you hear horses, and learning how to combine all of that to be the best “healer” for your horse that you can be.
Willing Workers On Organic Farms (WWOOFERS) come to our farm at Tanjil South in Australia. WWOOF is a world wide organization that promotes a cultural exchange between the host and the guest, who work 4 hours per day doing work on an organic or chemical free farm, in return for their board and keep (their food and a comfortable bed).
While they are with us, the wwoofers are treated as part of the family and we make an effort to include them in our social lives at the time.
Most wwoofers are looking for the horse experience, so I include a small amount of instruction with the horses each day that I am here and outside of working hours, they get to spend as much time as they like with the herd, exploring how they “hear” horses.
