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, [...]