HORSE MANAGEMENT NEWSLETTER AND MORE!!!
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Topics in this issue:
1) Feature: Filming with Carolyn Resnick
2) Free item exchange

This monthıs newsletter is abbreviated since I am leaving in a few days for
filming in Denmark and Russia. More information in the September
newsletter!

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Feature: Filming with Carolyn Resnick
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It was a warm summer day, just a few miles from the San Diego Wild Animal
Park, when we pulled up to Carolyn Resnick's ranch. Preparations were
underway for a day-long clinic where Carolyn would present her methods
working with a 5 year old Andalusian stallion, Panadero. As the crowd was
seated, Carolyn set the stage by saying,

"The reason that I am with horses is the relationship Iıve experienced. The
joy the horse gives me and the joy that I bring to the horse. Every moment
that we experience with our horse is a complete joy, itıs a joy to have the
training, there is no end to the journey. When I show you what Panadero is
doing with me now, I donıt hold him to any lines, nor will I ever. With any
of my training I donıt really expect the horse to be there for me every
single minute. I work with what he can be. If we work with each other that
way we find out that our relationships in life are just better."

As the handsome steel gray stallion came down and was set free in the arena,
tossing his wavy gray mane, he immediately focused on Carolyn and they began
a dance together at liberty. What struck me most strongly was the
excitement he had about playing this way. There was none of the
mechanicalness that is so often seen in various forms of "natural
horsemanship". Panadero didn't know that this was a lesson, he was there to
show off, to dance with this diminutive 65 year old woman.

The next day we got to film an interview with Carolyn. We spoke for hours
about where this journey can take us. The following are some snippets from
the conversation.

"In the big picture of community, horses teach us to enjoy community and
that community can be our greatest reward. And that connection can be our
greatest reward. If we do not feel the connection, honor the connection or
want the connection, weıre missing out on how wonderful life is and how
exciting it is. It makes it big when we can really really walk to
connection and know that that is the best part of our life. That if we do
that, then it makes a community player out of us and thatıs when we care
about the community and we want to serve the community. And if we can want
to serve community more than anything else, even ourselves, if we want to
serve community above anything else in our lives, we canıt be anything but
full of joy and happiness.

"What youıre wanting to do is to make a connection and then understand what
it means to stay within the connection. Itıs ok to have disagreements with
your horse and itıs ok to tell your horse what he needs to do for you. The
part that is not ok is making your horse do something for you. So, the
connection doesnıt always look like peace, harmony and love, sometimes it
looks like a whole host of emotional expressions but emotions and connection
and disconnection is perfectly fine to have with your horse if itıs done in
a free environment where everybody gets to speak their truth. The horse
gets to speak its truth and you get to speak your truth. When everybody is
allowed to speak their truth in freedom, it is ok for there not to be
harmony because once truth is spoken with your horse and yourself, harmony
is always the result but you donıt know that until youıve experienced it.
So if you ask your horse to do something and he turns around kicks up in the
air and runs around and leaps and squeals and leaps and squeals, you just
let him leap and squeal all he wants, itıs just that heıs to do it on his
turf rather than yours, so that means you would just keep him away from you,
and allow him his expression and after heıs said everything he wants, heıll
come back and just fit in your pocket. But you wonıt know that unless you
try it so thatıs very good to understand. We want to keep our horses in
boxes so much that we donıt really know what that horse is going to behave
like when he has his freedom to go ahead and do what he wants to do, and
then thatıs when the magic really begins to happen and I hope that more
people will take their horses and look at them as an experiment in
connection and just try it out and find out what you will have with your
horse and you will always find that itıs more than what you thought.

³We think that when we ride a horse and we have a little piece of steel in
his mouth and we think that thatıs what controls his power and his mind. It
doesnıt. Go put a bit in a wild horseıs mouth, jump on it and see how it
connects and how you can control. Youıll be dumped on the ground fast as
lightening. So it isnıt about that, itıs about something else, and thatıs
where we want to try to really experience horses. When weıre on the back of
a horse, weıre in the horseıs home. We must, when weıre in the horseıs home
be really respectful.²

For more information about the Path of the Horse documentary go to:
www.stormymay.com . Next month: Filming with Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling

For those people interested in being part of a discussion group about the
Path of the Horse documentary and putting these principles into action in
your own life, send a blank email to:

pathofthehorse-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

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Free item exchange
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As people hear about the direction I've gone they seem to know of certain
horses who would blossom with this sort of treatment and are willing to
donate them to this cause. If you are serious about pursuing this path drop
me a line and I can probably find you a free horse.

If you aren't sure what this direction is that Iım talking about, read up in
past newsletters here:

http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/HorseManagementNewsletter/message/51
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/HorseManagementNewsletter/message/52

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Free items may include but are not limited to:

riding clothes
rally equipment
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blankets, wraps, halters
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So...clean out your tackroom and make room for more stuff!

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