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.