Everyone dreams about having a horse with a great Body Awareness. At the same time, during everyday meetings with our horses we, sadly, most of the time do a lot to shrink this awareness. “Not like that”, “More”, “Not enough”, “differently”, etc., Horses are being flooded with instructions, with very little support from our side.
With this video we start the 3rd month of JoinAnna, so from the very start it was clear to me that it had to be something very special, something unique that will match this very special occasion. I was waiting for the right subject to show up, and Cadeau de Dieu my beautiful 4yo mare stepped up
Riding is the most magical experience in Life. Being so close to your horse, and being so much dependent on him and at the same time being in such incredible unity with him is a very powerful experience. At the same time riding as we, humans, used to see it is not natural for horses,
I see these days, that so much guidance and attention is dedicated to the techniques and ways of acting, and so little towards the true fuel of each action, which is the intention that starts this action. Every action can be born from two intentions. The first we can call “I trust”, and the second one
To be Calm, you have to BE. When you come to your horse, and you have any assumptions about what you will do, and what you will never do, you cannot BE. You create the false perception of you in your imagination, and you want to control the Reality to make this imagination real. It
On the photograph above you can see my wonderful student Chloe Johansson. On the photograph Chloe touches her face to feel the present moment as it is now even more deeply, to connect with it, and to be able to clear her mind from all theories that caused her to check out during the training
In my life I spent years not using treats with my horses. These years taught me one thing: that is not important if you give or not give the treats, but
All horses are teachers. Being a teacher is the most incredible experience one can have in Life: it is incredible because it’s so simple and so fulfilling at the same time. To be a teacher it is enough to know something that other person doesn’t know. When you see that you know something that can
NA has infinite power and infinite intelligence. Using NA is effortless and natural, it is like opening the window and enjoying the sun. You do not need to “support” or “curry” the sun. It is just there and is shining. You can smile and enjoy. When you want, you can close and open the window.
In this module, you will learn how to engage yourself in doing something and how to engage your horse in doing this things with you. It is crucial for you now to really understand the exercises from the previous Modules. First of all, always remember that we do not teach the horse to do something, we teach you. When
