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.  Indigenous cultures still relate to horses this way.  Revered horseman such as Mark Rashid, and the late Ray Hunt, Bill Dorrance and Tom Dorrance talk and write about horses this way.  Certain classical horsepeople, such as Paul Belasik and Erik Herbermann, share this view as well.  Reading their books and attending their clinics are wonderful ways to learn how to relate to horses within this worldview.

This blog gives you something more.  It explores everyday topics concerning horses from within this worldview.  It also addresses horse issues by considering the different ways we know about, learn from, and respond to horses.  For example, the issues concerning wild Mustangs in the West are not merely intellectual ones.  They also involve other ways of knowing, such as myth and story.

Why aren’t there any other blogs like this online?  I believe it’s because relating to horses in this way, taking the time and energy to explore horse issues at a deeper level, is not always easy.  Our modern culture has taught us to look for carrot sticks and spurs, gimmicks and short cuts, rather than taking the time to explore our relationship with the horse.  There are some tough issues concerning horses, issues that don’t have easy answers, but that will only be answered in a way advantageous to the horse if we are brave enough to explore them.  It’s not an either/or world…it’s both/and.

Training horses, training ourselves, taking the time to look at issues, stretching ourselves so that we are better horsepeople, these are all things that we should do to benefit the horse.  They give so much to us.  It’s time we start giving back.

Welcome to The Voice of the Horse!