Archive for November, 2009

Stripping down the horse

Written by Hiddenhorse on 30/11/2009 – 3:25 pm -

Imagine your horse lives at the center of three concentric circles or better yet, spheres and imagine if you can that your horse is imprisoned inside these two outer shells. These shells are curved and semi-opaque and therefore distort what is inside. You can travel inside them at will but your horse is trapped, this is because these two shells are human inventions and under the control of humans, only the human can create them or destroy them through choice. Read more »

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Dressage: The art of conflict?

Written by Hiddenhorse on 27/11/2009 – 11:54 am -

Sorry for not posting anything recently I’ve been away, studying, – and this might surprise you, the world of dressage. For those of you that are natural horse-keeping enthusiasts you may think that dressage is about as far away doing things based on a natural model as it was possible to get, and you’d be right, certainly from a utility model and competition perspective; if you were to imagine a scale with natural horse-keeping and natural horsemanship principles at one end, where the horse is respected first and foremost as a horse then it would not be unreasonable to put dressage which is all too often about submission and compliance of the horse, as close to the opposite end of the scale as it was possible to get. Read more »

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