Books with Spirit – Joyfulness between horses and people

We were very sad to lose our barefoot trimmer Cat Wyley to America for study (although thrilled for her) and are very happy that Gene Hutcheon re-located here from Tasmania at exactly the right time.

To us, a good barefoot trimmer is more than just a person who trims our horses’ feet.  He is the person who works with our horse when they are just about at their most vulnerable – with their leg in the air and unable to run away easily.

We are so lucky that not only are Gene’s trimming skills excellent, he is brilliant with the horses – gentle, sensitive and responsive to their emotional as well as their physical needs. 

I laughed when I read what I wrote.  It sounds like a great recommendation for a man, let alone a feet trimmer.  But unfortunately for you single ladies, this one’s married to the beautiful Kylie!

It is not going to be too long before a guy with this sort of horse talent has a full book, so if you are looking for someone who really knows his stuff about barefoot trimming, transitioning from shoes to barefoot, fitting easy boots for endurance and other performance horses, foundered horses and other specialist horse podiatry – then I suggest that you get on to him.

Gene is living just outside of Gormondale, near Traralgon and is working through South Gippsland, areas of the Mornington Peninsula, down the Princes Highway, past us at Moe to Pakenham and Cranbourne, Beaconsfield and across into the Dandenongs to Monbulk and Cockatoo.  Obviously East Gippsland is also on his doorstep.

Click here for the link to Gene’s website.  His phone number is 03 5194 2286 and his Mobile is 0488 421 189   

I have had very large shift in perspective in the last few weeks that has had a major impact on my life in and out of horses – and I just love the fact that horses are such a catalyst for powerful changes like this!

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When you read Zen Connection with Horses, you will understand why your horse needs to feel safe and secure, for you to feel safe and secure too.  Yes, you can read that again.  That is what I said – for you to feel safe and secure, your horse has to feel safe and secure.

And the degree that you feel unsafe and insecure will depend on a combination of how good a rider you are and how great your horse’s need is.  

So if I am right,what can you do to help your horse to feel confident, safe, and secure?

So, if you are one of those of us who experience any nervousness, anxiety, lack of confidence, feelings of not being safe or of insecurity when you are with your horse, then decide that you would like to notice “what it is that you can know or do” for your horse, to help them feel safe, secure and happy again.  Crikey that was a clumsy sentence.  I will need to get my editor to edit my blogs at this rate!

I promise you that it will work – taking any action that helps your horse feel more safe and secure, will have you feeling more confident, safe and secure too.  

If  you experience fear, nervousness, lack of confidence or insecurity around your horse, then have a bit of a go right now.  You can get the quiet mind that will give you answers to how you can help your horse feel more safe and secure with this simple little excercise here.

Close your eyes and notice your breath as you breathe in and out.   See if you can notice your heart beat.  The idea is to use this to find a quiet mind and the answer will drift in when you are ready, no matter how long it takes.  Just chill out and enjoy the quiet mind.

If you have a very busy mind, you may need to practice a quiet mind more often, before “what you can do to help your horse feel more safe and secure” drifts into your mind.  No matter, it will take the time it takes – but it will happen.

If you want to fast track it, the audio lessons attached to Zen Connection with Horses takes you step by step through noticing when your horse starts feeling not OK – and then figuring out what action to take to help them.

If you haven’t read this book yet, you are in for a treat.  It is completely unique and is getting rave reviews from all over the world.  You can read it with my personal “love this book or get your money back” guarantee.  Click here to go to the bookshop or see how extraordinarily different this book is from anything that you have read before by browsing around People’s Stories and Reader’s Letters or through the archives.

Here is my reply to a one time student’s request to know how to lay a horse down.

Horses can be laid down as a dominance technique or with the horse’s attitude being “yes please, you delicious human, I would love to lay down for you.”   Needless to say, the second option is my preference. 

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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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Wouldn’t it be great if there was actually a golden thread that you could follow, knowing that it was leading you exactly on the path that you needed to take with you and your horse and that you would be “led” to each and every person, place and event that was absolutely perfect for the both of you together? 

Well, guess what?  There IS a golden thread.  It is called “Synchronicity”, but Anita Wheeler likes to think of it as “Power Flow”.

Click here to read Anita Wheeler’s article about following  the golden thread.  It doesn’t make mention of the word “horse” once, but it might have been written just for us and our horses anyway!  At the bottom of Anita’s article, I bring this excellent concept back to relate to you and your horse again.

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