To create a deeper connection with your horse, put yourself in a state of happiness before you see your horse. It will help you to discover yet another core strength within you. Your intentions to elevate your awareness will grow your magnetism. Growing your magnetism will draw your horse to follow your lead. It will [...]
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Are you ready to enjoy health, happiness and more fulfillment in your life? Even if you have never owned or even met a horse the E.A.R.T.H. retreats will introduce you to a magical place populated by higher beings (Animals) who are here to teach and heal humans. Join Liz Mitten Ryan and the Herd, [...]
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The Art IN Horses: How horses help humans become their own masterpiece. Horses have inspired artists throughout the ages and in turn, those of us who look upon their art are captivated by the beauty and majesty of the horse. The cave drawings in Lasceaux, Leonardo’s sculptures, and the finger paintings that adorn kindergarten [...]
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The Silence of Power While brief, eye-witness accounts of Washington’s impressive riding skills were commonplace, historians past and present have failed to recognize the importance of his distinction as one of the finest horse trainers on either side of the Atlantic. To be sure, Thomas Jefferson characterized him as “the best horseman of his age, [...]
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Whether you live amongst a herd of 16 ‘wild’ horses as I do or have one best friend you hang out with, it makes all the difference if your herd accepts you as one of them and in particular the one who guarantees their safety and well-being, the lead mare. Many trainers espousing a [...]
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The Presence of Power In the winter of 1777, George Washington somehow inspired a ragged group of soldiers to not only stick around for the Second Battle of Trenton, but to actually win it. John Howland, a young private from Rhode Island, lived to tell the story. In an account published 54 years after the [...]
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Continuation of the conversation between Michael Bevilacqua, one Alexander Nevzrov’s top students, and Cloé Lacroix and Kris McCormack… From what you have seen in your experience how do you see the horse world in the future, say about fifty years? It would be nice to say that we will all live in peace with other [...]
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With modern education over-emphasizing intellectual and verbal arts, people who somehow manage to train all three of their “brains” become more influential, downright irresistible to populations who lack this full-bodied charisma. Take Ronald Reagan, whose firm yet congenial, focused, larger-than-life presence is, in fact, the mark of a rider capable of harnessing power and intelligence [...]
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Horses and humans are both social by nature, the difference is that horses are looking for well being through sharing the moment in companionship more than humans these days. It is a true magnetic draw that horses have for certain people, but it appears that the human is not wanting to connect with the horse [...]
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Here’s a condensed version of an excerpt from Chapter 3, “Hidden Wisdom,” from my upcoming book The Power of the Herd. Copyright 2010 by Linda Kohanov. Imagine if a supervisor asked you to complete a project with only ten percent of the information available to you, if schools were only committed to teaching ten percent [...]
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