Posted in Misc on Jan 19th, 2010
This was a very good question from Elizabeth in Thursday’s classroom and I thought it would be useful to share my answer with you too.
Elizabeth’s question was how the 7 steps of liberty training I taught in my first video Liberty Training are related to the Waterhole Rituals. Well, the short answer is that they [...]
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Posted in Advice on Feb 10th, 2009
I find that a very important connection I have with horses comes from the subtleties and energy that we share back and fourth. For example, how I choose to connect each time I have been away from my horse. I might choose to be focused on him and greet him with my full attention because [...]
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Posted in Stories on Jan 22nd, 2009
Hello again. Thank you so much for all your wonderful comments about my plans for a school. Of course, its early days and we need to find the funding to make it all happen but your kind words are very encouraging.
Today, I want to share a story with you that was sent in by [...]
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Posted in Q&A on Nov 27th, 2008
When training a horse, there is always a gap between the theoretical and the practical and this can be very frustraing . 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, today’s blog post features [...]
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Posted in Stories on Oct 15th, 2008
The lesson I would like to discuss today is how our horses behave when they have not been worked on a regular basis.
Normally, if we turn a horse out in a big field and just leave him for a week or maybe a month and then bring him back to ride, he will often [...]
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Posted in Misc on Sep 5th, 2008
Well, it’s nearly the weekend, so I thought it would be nice to have some more photo’s and thanks to everyone for sending them in.
I will be telling you next week about a story concerning Robin Gates, a student of mine for over 25 years and a close friend. After Robin told me this story [...]
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Posted in Misc on Aug 18th, 2008
As every one knows, I had an unusual life growing up in the desert with horses. Our horses were able to run free most of the day in a herd and go where they wished. They were loose and there were no fences to keep them in from doing exactly what they wanted to do. [...]
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Posted in Misc on Jul 4th, 2008
Hello and a happy 4th of July to you!
I am delighted to announce the first in what we hope will be a series of stories from Margaret who featured on the post Being in nature. We have been exchanging messages with each other and I asked her if she wouldn’t mind sharing some of her [...]
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Posted in Misc on Jun 27th, 2008
Welcome! I hoped you liked the photo’s on Wednesday, weren’t they cute? Today I have another surprise for you and for me too actually. The video below is from a new DVD of mine called “Liberty Training”. Well, I say new but in reality it was shot about 20 years ago on the ranch I [...]
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Posted in Stories on Jun 16th, 2008
Hello, hope you all had a lovely weekend.
The story that I would like to share with you today is something that happened to me a couple of weeks ago when we were doing some filming. We were working on my new DVD that we are going to be bringing out showing the different personalities of [...]
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