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Pat Parelli - “Horsemanship can be obtained naturally through
psychology, communication, and understanding, versus mechanics,
fear and intimidation”.
“If all I did was teach you to think like a horse and truly understand their
psychology, you’d have the keys to be able to do whatever you want
with horses, and to win their hearts”.
“We want to thank you for including us in your work, and we would love
to be a part of this site. Please do include us! Best wishes!
Monty Roberts - “My life’s goal is to leave the world a better place than
I found it, for horses and for people, too”.
Buck Brannaman - “I’ve started horses since I was 12 years old and have
been bit, kicked, bucked off and run over. I’ve tried every physical means to
contain my horse in an effort to keep from getting myself killed. I started to
realize that things would come much easier for me once I learned why a horse
does what he does.This method works well for me because of the kinship that
develops between horse and rider”.
Jessica Jahiel - “What I teach is Holistic Horsemanship ®. This is a term
that should be redundant, but
unfortunately is not. I’ve found that most riders
know something about showing, most haven’t been lucky enough
to learn
much about classical correct riding, and too many have been taught riding,
but nothing about
horsemanship. I teach them to consider the total horse in
it’s total environment: how to deal with it outside the
show ring; what its life
is like, apart from the daily 45 minutes under saddle; how its living conditions
affect its
health and behavior etc.” “You are very welcome to create a link to
my site! Best of luck in your efforts! It would
be a wonderful thing if everyone
who trained a horse would understand its nature and treat it kindly and well,
and
I applaud you for encouraging this”.
Ray Hunt - "Working with the horse is a way of life for me. He's my
livelihood, my hobby, my passion. If given a
little thought, a little
understanding, and a little common sense, the horse gives back in full
measure. If the human
can give 5%, the horse will come from the other
side with 95%. The horse never ceases to amaze me with what
he can
get done with very little help from the human".
Tom Dorrance - "I believe horses naturally have tremendous faith in the
human being. It is their natural instinct of
self-preservation that the person
needs to understand in order to gain the confidence of the horse".
"The horse
knows where the person is all the time. Now we are trying to help the person
know where the horse is all the time.
The horse knows where the person is;
the person needs to learn to catch up with the horse on that".
"The thing you
are trying to help the horse do is to use his own mind. You are trying to present
something and then let him
figure out how to get there".
John Lyons - "I think that our own Creator just wants us to say "yes"
to Him, to acknowledge Him as God.
Then other things change almost
automatically. We don't tell our horse, "You get yourself squared away
and
doing lots of trained-horse things, then come talk to me about being
my horse." God doesn't ask us to clean up
our act and do lots of religious
things, either. Just as we ask our horse for lots of little yes's, God only
asks for
little yes's from us. The result of our saying "yes" is that we
are calmer and more peaceful, just as the horse is
more peaceful when he
learns to say "yes" to us".
"Think about just asking your horse to say, "yes," and before long you'll
find yourself riding down the trail with a
perfect horse".
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