Ideas

The Art of Riding and Horsemanship

January 18, 2011

Riding or horsemanship is an art. There is no denying riding is a creative expression of a partnership. Let us listen to what one creative genius hears from another. It goes to the heart of creativity, to art. Riders are often quoting, seeking or referring back to a Master of earlier days. To those ancestors [...]

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Season of Grace

November 24, 2010

I want to clear the way emotionally to get with the collective conscious at this holiday time of gratitude. So first I have to take a moment to grieve for the loss of my rights. I have been used to controlling my personal health and privacy as have all US citizens. New dramatic changes on [...]

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Economic Recovery and Horses

October 11, 2010

Why am I writing a blog post about economic recovery on a saddle website? It’s because I like business economics, it’s a hobby. While horses are my vocation and riding is my avocation, I like business too. Besides economics being wholistic and physics, at the end of the day real estate values, horses as commodities [...]

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Deliberate Classical Dressage

September 16, 2010

In the spirit of naming a method that fills the chasm between rollkur and natural horsemanship I humbly submit a name more specific than my suggestion of THAT Riding, Transitioning Horses to Athletes for Training. I tip my hat to classical dressage with Deliberate Classical Dressage. The ongoing debates between geographical methods like German, French, [...]

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A Name Matters

August 7, 2010

Words matter, and naming things attracts energy to it. Right now there is an opportunity to help horses by naming the training method for developing muscles that allows horses to perform with biomechanical integrity. In the wake of new revelations that the FEI Rollkur policy is not being enforced, the tumultuous effects of Gerd Heuschmann’s [...]

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Gravity and Riding

April 7, 2010

How does gravity effect us?
How does gravity effect our horses?
Can we change our relationship to gravity?
Why would we want to?
Considering movement from this perspective might be a lot of fun
Gravity is something we all share, that everything on earth shares, natural or man made here we have one indisputable truth in common. Gravity keeps [...] (click on title)

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Horse Genome Complete

November 23, 2009

Although a draft sequence of the horse genome was released in 2007 so researchers could use it immediately, two University of Minnesota professors who started the project (completed by a consortium) it is described in a paper published by Science, 6 November 2009: Vol. 326. no. 5954, pp. 865-867. The cool thing is the findings [...]

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