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"Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythym of your life. Its the expression in time and movement, in happiness, joy, sadness and envy."
Jaques D'Amboise
"Dancing with your horse is merging the dance between your pulse and his, your breathing and his, your heartbeat and his, to find the one rhythm that makes up the two of you. An expression of time and movement that is exquisite in its reality."
Nadja King |
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Best wishes and thanks for your brave, wonderful magazine, Susan Garvin
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"Our bodies speak a language all its own."
It is THIS language that we need to learn to speak fully if we hope to truly become one with our horse. A language of movement - of balance - of weight - of touch, a language that creates the one way for us to communicate and join with our horses at a level where no misunderstandings reside, where we can share thoughts and ideas with our horses at a level that cannot be truly expressed otherwise.
But there is only one who can teach you this language in the end. No human guide can. Only the equine guide that strides underneath you.
Open yourself up to the possibilities.
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I've never quite seen anything like this before. Just brilliant! |
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"Technique does not make for a great rider. Passion Does."
Passion for the horse, for the ride, for the movement. This is what creates a great rider.
Technique merely allows you to sit on the horse. Passion brings out the fire and the brilliance that resides inside.
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Your magazine is the best one around by far, including the paper ones, it is the only one that really promotes the traditional and rational (and, in my opinion, correct and fair) way of doing things with horses.
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Alison |
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"He who cannot dance puts the blame on the floor."
Hindu proverb
"He who cannot dance with the horse puts the blame on the horse. Both the floor and the horse are innocent of all blame."
Nadja King |
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Physicians learn to "First, do no harm". What a wonderful philosophy, to be extended to all aspects of life, including our training of the horse. This simple thought was first articulated by Hippocrates, a Greek philosopher (whose name, interestingly, translates loosely into "Horse Master"), in about 400BC.
The following are excerpts the Hippocratic Oath, written by Louis Lasgna in 1964. Its amazing how few words need be altered to offer good thoughts regarding the training of the horse.
"I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this
covenant:
"I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those {physicians} [trainers] in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow <snip>
"I will remember that there is art to medicine [riding] as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh {the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug} [so many possible substitutions... half-halt, side-reins, gadgets, drilling...].
"I will not be ashamed to say "I know not," nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient's recovery [horse's progress].
<snip> "If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of {healing}[training] those who seek my help."
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