Empowered Horses: Learning Their Way Through Independence, Self-Confidence, and Creative Play

By Imke Spilker

This astounding new book challenges the "rules" of horsemanship in way you have never seen before You'll discover how to preserve your horse's independence in a "human's world" by becoming more passive, receptive, and accepting, giving your horse the physical and emotional "space" to take an unbelievably active role in your interactions--both work and play. With your support, your horse will develop games and exercises that naturally balance and collect his body, as if by magic. In addition, he will enthusiastically "work with" and "carry" you--"inviting" you along for the ride of your life. The key to this dramatic reconsideration of the human-horse relationship is how inner balance finds outer expression in the body. Whether human or horse, feelings, posture, and movement are inextricably linked. With the ability to "tap into" this language--as explained in the pages of this book--you can leave behind the demands, commands, and cues you once relied on, and instead discover an unbelievable realm of sophisticated and mutually beneficial symbiosis.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570764131
• ISBN13: 9781570764134
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Trafalgar Square Books
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.5" x 0.7" x 8.0"