Tag: trust technique

  • Starting to consider the halter – 2023-03-20

    Starting to consider the halter – 2023-03-20

    We started today with two oils : Sea buckthorn which is a good all rounder for health particularly in moulting season; and Violet Absolute releasing anticipation of pain. There is an emotion that Anah, Astuce and I have to work through each time, which is the ‘stranger/danger’ feeling. Who am I and why am I…

  • Re-establishing Trust – 2023-02-20

    Re-establishing Trust – 2023-02-20

    A little bit of pressure and release work with Anah and Astuce a couple of days earlier caused a break of trust, but the thing to do with this is to forgive yourself, and learn from it. We learn from making mistakes, and learning is a good thing. Astuce is wary today and not wanting…

  • Scratches with Astuce 2023-02-06

    Scratches with Astuce 2023-02-06

    At first the donkeys didn’t want to talk, but after a while they chose the place where they were happy to engage and have a conversation. At the start it was about sharing the present moment and then approaching, and then sharing the present moment again, and then approaching again, until I was at the…

  • Acknowledging memories..

    Acknowledging memories..

    The animals we take into our lives all have a past that is separate to ours, with maybe one exception – when the animal is born from parents that are in our guardianship. In this case we become one of their first memories. We all have memories. Some bring a smile to the face and…

  • Touching the Aura 2023-01-23

    Touching the Aura 2023-01-23

    At the beginning of this session the first thing is to say hello and see where we are, and what may be the next step forwards. To do this I said hello by inviting Anah to investigate me. I put myself down at her level and just waited. This was quicker than the last session…

  • Anah talks about her personal space 2023-01-09

    Anah talks about her personal space 2023-01-09

    After the last session asking Anah if we can touch, she started to get a little more aggressive with her ‘No, don’t touch me’, towards her human. She was saying ‘you can give me treats but I am not yet ready for you to touch me as much as you may want to.’ This leads…

  • And now to Touch..2023-01-02

    And now to Touch..2023-01-02

    This is session 5 with the donkeys and we are starting to touch, using a process of ‘Present Moment-Touch-Thank you-Reward-Present Moment‘ which, if you are on the Trust Technique video course, you will see used with ‘Red the Stallion’ under the horses section at Salt River. This is one week after practicing energetic scratches from…

  • Meeting the Family 2022-12-12.

    Meeting the Family 2022-12-12.

    This was the first introduction session with these two lovely donkeys. The video is clips from the session which was mostly me sharing the present moment and regarding to get to know the donkeys better. The donkeys names are Anah and Astuce. Anah came to Esther with a friend Belle a little under a year…

  • Releasing an onion layer..

    Releasing an onion layer..

    Allow an animal to have their say without taking what they say personally. When my farrier was here last week (28 Nov 22) Timmy gave us some real challenges. Interestingly Timmy is always the easy one for feet – a lot of the time I could just put his rope over his back and let…

  • Risada showing the pain anticipation behaviour..

    Risada showing the pain anticipation behaviour..

    This is a follow on from a post on August 21 2022 about Pain Anticipation with Risada; http://animalconnectionandbeyond.fr/2022/08/21/pain-anticipation-with-risada/ ; and a post on 16th October 2022, regarding why Risada still bites the farrier; http://animalconnectionandbeyond.fr/2022/10/16/why-does-my-horse-still-want-to-bite-my-farrier/. This is a few clips of how Risada throws her body about when she anticipates pain. This is quite mild now…