Hoof care, the choices today: Traditional hoof care, done by a blacksmith, involves regular 6-8 week visits. The blacksmith trims your horse a certain way and if any problems arise a metal shoe is used to fix or manage the problem. Unfortunately, the shoes are permanently attached and so even if the horse only [...]
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A few months ago, a friend of mine came limping up the barn aisle on crutches. She explained sheepishly that she’d taken a tumble off her bicycle, badly spraining an ankle in the process. Her rehab regimen would entail staying off her horse, keeping the ankle in a brace, and making regular visits to a [...]
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When training a horse, there is always a gap between the theoretical and the practical and this can be very frustrating . My advice for this is pretty much always that more time is needed. I can’t overstate the beautiful simplicity of the first Ritual as a preparation for the rest. So, this article features [...]
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Reach Out to Horse’s Anna Twinney continues her coaching the Maui Clinic Participants to be more effective and proficient in their training, communication and partnership with their horses.  
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When I came back to working with horses, after being thrown and dragged, I had a lot of inner work to do around fear. My horse Moon helped me work through my fears while riding. I practice the Mind Body Method (a coaching process I developed) to slow down my automatic responses and stay present [...]
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I have spent the better part of my life learning how to be an artist. I have learned to use my artistic tools so well that they have become second nature. Of course I must still make decisions of how to solve the challenges of a composition, or how to specifically apply a [...]
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Liz Mitten Ryan is delighted to announce that her warmblood mare Premiere Edition (Prima) has won a Silver Nautilus book award in the Animals / Nature Category for The Truth According to Horses. The book, a literary first, was conceived and written by horses for people. It is the second in a series of four [...]
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  Below is a link to the transcription from the 3rd The Path of the Horse Teleseminar Series call with Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling. The 28 page report is free to Members and can be purchased by non-members by going to HorseConscious products. Enjoy!   Members login to view this content. (Not [...]
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  Here is the interview Mark did with Klaus following his Borderline Demonstration in Holland in May 2009. Members login to view this content. (Not a Member? Join today!)  
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Last Saturday I attended one of Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling’s Borderline Demonstrations in Holland. This was the first time I had seen Klaus live in action and was very excited at the prospect. These Borderline Demonstrations generally deal with horses that are very close to the edge and perhaps even dangerous. This particular show was to [...]
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Carolyn was unaware that most of this ‘footage’ was being shot. It makes for a great video and demonstrates their connection together as we see Carolyn just having fun with the ever charismatic Panadero. If you are able to watch the first version of the video where you are, then I encourage you to do [...]
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In this follow-up call between Mark and Anna, Anna talks more about the world of Reiki, how she got into it, the benefits for both human and horse and how she adapted what she had learned to form her own course, “Reiki for Horses”. Members login to view this content. (Not [...]
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We are always seeking to capture the elusive element of time. When we experience something wonderful, we usually want to take a photograph, hoping to freeze the moment in order to relive it again. Yet by the very act of trying to capture an experience, we often make it more elusive. For the moments themselves [...]
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This is another story I want to share with you that I just thought about as I was working on my computer. It was again during my first job in La Jolla, California. As you may recall, I was hired to handle a large training center of hunters and jumpers. What they like to do [...]
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