joanne | December 14, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
New Report Documents the Faulty Science of “Predator-Prey” Relationship Between Humans and Horses
Colorado Springs, CO (December 14, 2009) — When she realized Mark was being too agressive with her filly, Dale Rose of Brandon, Mississippi got creative. Rose “gave” the teenager an imaginary glove to gentle his touch. “Then,” says the [...]
joanne | December 10, 2009
I had the wonderful opportunity to be a call-in guest on Cuttin Up Radio on the evening of December 9, 2009. Click here to listen the interview. Be sure to visit the social networking site just for horsepeople, Horsetweet.com, to learn about future Cuttin Up Radio shows. A big thanks to the folks at Cuttin [...]
Jo | October 16, 2009
“Women and Horses” is a unique program of riding lessons and retreats designed to help women understand and actualize the innate, intuitive and powerful understanding you have of the horse-woman relationship. All women are welcome – beginners and professionals; health-challenged, fearful, returning after years away from horses, horseless or horse-owning, competitive or pleasure, riders and [...]
Jo | July 2, 2009
A new study by researchers in the Department of Animal Environment and Health at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala apparently shows that horses’ heart rates can be affected by a human’s heart rate. The study had people both ride and lead horses near someone holding an umbrella. The person with the horse [...]
Jo | July 1, 2009
One of the concepts explored in the Horse-Human Relationship Riding Program is the concept of subtlety. We aren’t generally very subtle in our everyday lives. It’s hard to think of being subtle in a culture that bombards people with constant noise and constant images so that each noise and image must be bigger, louder, brighter, [...]
Jo | June 25, 2009
All of us have various comfort zones. A comfort zone is a place where we feel “comfortable.” It can apply to different ways that we interact with the world, so we may have a physical comfort zone, a psychological comfort zone, an emotional comfort zone, an intellectual comfort zone, and a spiritual comfort zone. We learn what these comfort zones are as we experience life. We often don’t even realize we have them.
Jo | June 23, 2009
Welcome to The Voice of the Horse blog.
Unlike most other horse blogs on the Internet, this one is written from within an Indigenous Earth-based worldview. This blog is based on the ancient belief that almost everyone in the horseworld has lost sight of – horses are our friends, our partners, our teachers, and our kin. [...]