Tag: horses

  • Herbs, oils, and a little Trust Technique with Timmy

    Herbs, oils, and a little Trust Technique with Timmy

    I just wanted to share this lovely video of Timmy self-selecting herbs, testing some oils, and healing with the Trust Technique. I have been working through a course on animal self-selection for medicinal purposes and wanted to start working a little with Timmy regarding his cribbing, without pushing him. At the moment we are just…

  • Chocolate selecting clove oil

    Chocolate selecting clove oil

    Chocolate shows us what many of the reactions look like in horses when offering essential oils.. This video shows Chocolate selecting clove oil and taking quite a lot of it. We tend to know clove oil mostly as a means of pain relief for toothache, but it has anti bacterial properties and can be good…

  • Wormwood self-selection

    I just wanted to share this little video of my guys self-selecting wormwood. There is also a little bit in there as I was also wandering around with a bucket of marine algae to see if anybody wanted any. Risada shows us really nicely how she is deciding to have some wormwood, and then when…

  • Checking in on Trust (2)

    The Next Day……… After spending time with Neige and her trusting me enough to lie down when I was on the ground on 25th January, (see Checking in on Trust post 25th January 2022), the next day she was in the yard standing and resting. I went and stood with her, just being still and…

  • ..and Risada accepts the bridle

    Following on from my post three days ago Yesterday I asked Risada to come into the arena alone. At first she was quite fidgety and mouthy, and it took about 20 minutes for us to reach a place where we could be peaceful, no thinking, worrying, wondering what was next, etc. This we did in…

  • My Crystal journey

    My Crystal journey

    It is all balance Somebody asked me a little while back how I connected with crystals, and not being used to the question, or talking about crystals in most human company, I found it a little difficult to answer in a specific ‘this is how its done’ way. This is because for everybody it is…

  • Finding neutral in the arena with Risada

    Learning together is about a shared understanding of our response to each other in any given moment When Risada comes into the arena she loves to have a roll, then run off to eat the grass round the edge. This time we let the roll happen, almost requested it, then asked her to be peaceful…

  • Head Collar Peace with 3 out of 5

    Video explanation The first section of the video is Querida. She loves and seeks out the present moment feeling of peace. She now head collars softly and nearly helps. We have started working with her to, firstly, find a really peaceful place once the head collar is on, and you can see her thinking levels…