Post by Admin on Feb 14, 2016 10:07:01 GMT -7
You will want to read each of these quotes carefully.
The stronger you desire a result, the more it slips away. The main skill while working in hand is the skill of not desiring a result.
-Alexander Nevzorov
LECTIO EQUARIA PALAESTRA is a very old School technique, by which absolutely any horse can learn to read and count quickly and easily, grasping the language of human numbers and letters, so seemingly alien to her.
-Alexander Nevzorov
"Work in hand" is an art far more cunning and sublime than riding.
-Alexander Nevzorov
A horse has absolutely NO reason to consider a human to be a reasonable being.
-Alexander Nevzorov
While studying LECTIO EQUARIA PALAESTRA with a horse, a human proves to the horse his intelligence and gradually strives so that the sounds he emits would no longer seem to the horse the same as the cow’s moo or the grasshopper’s chirps sound to a human.
-Alexander Nevzorov
During the LECTIO EQUARIA PALAESTRA lessons, a horse for the first time finds out that there are systems, logic, connections and information in the things a human is doing, that a human has, however humorous, an intellect.
-Alexander Nevozorov
"The Game as a School element" is something that can be stopped in less than a second at the first request of a tutor.
-Alexander Nevzorov
Any kind of faking or forcing "the game" just makes a horse hysterical, totally erasing all the strides of the manege education.
-Alexander Nevzorov
The sine qua non of the School "in hand" education en bloc and in the segment concerning manege reading (the teaching of the horse to spell and read) is the deeply and strongly noticeable individualism of a horse, it is important to accrue and preserve EVERY part of a horse’s temper.
-Alexander Nevzorov
A School horse is a "horse created by hands", a creature which has accumulated a great amount of a tutor's knowledge and everyday labour. In other words, it is a horse who has an added value.
-Alexander Nevzorov
A School horse is a unique creature because of her experiences and skills. She has an education, the creation of a school horse is the creation of an absolutely exceptional and outstanding creature. The special care and special vigilant watch are quite suited to her.
-Alexander Nevzorov
The intellectual faculties of a horse are completely incredible. It is noteworthy that in the alliance, which is necessary for the successful practice of LECTIO EQUARIA PALAESTRA one must have a horse who demonstrates the capability to comprehend the language of another species. A human cannot yet even guess what the horse's language really is and how it sounds.
-Alexander Nevzorov
A human on the back of the horse is never pleasant for her. Regardless of who this human is.
-Alexander Nevzorov
A horse's back is not a seat, not a place for human's buttocks, not a piece of "meat", not some kind of "buttress". It is a complex and very tender anatomical structure with an "extreme" physiological function.
-Alexander Nevzorov
It is very hard to understand sometimes, where the School as a spiritual practice ends and when it becomes the art of working with a horse. Both of these parts are associated.
-Alexander Nevzorov
MAGNITUDO is a very noble wish to give a horse her full myological potential, to develop her, to develop her musculature as it was designed by nature.
-Alexander Nevzorov
The only supplemental tack that is acknowledged by the School is a CORDEO - a looped leather strap or cord.
-Alexander Nevzorov
The use of the CORDEO, strictly speaking, is necessary only to achieve the correct geometry and the strict alignment of a horse for any lifts on the hind legs.
-Alexander Nevzorov
The word "manege", appropriately, is a purely School word and literally means "a place for work... in hand" (from the Latin manus - hand).
-Alexander Nevzorov
"Amateurs," those who want to use a horse for recreation, are not allowed to work a School horse, a horse shouldn't be considered "public property".
-Alexander Nevzorov
Caracol is the most "powerful" and simultaneously energetic exercise. It is an old School designation. In the first centuries of the School it meant a very collected forceful canter, the most effective of all the canters.
-Alexander Nevzorov
I'll say between you and me that games are a magic clue. The correct combination of games and exercises gives striking results.
-Alexander Nevzorov
Pesades (a lifting on the hind legs) aren't dangerous, or not more dangerous than any energetic movement of a playful horse.
-Alexander Nevzorov
Games are a choreography in which every participant understands his role well and knows his limits.
-Alexander Nevzorov
A whip (a twig) simply assists a discipline named "toucher" and works as a soft cue while learning to lift legs during passage, piaffe or courbettes. It isn't perceived in any other way by a horse.
-Alexander Nevzorov
A movement without collection, without a natural "lively" collection, without a horse bending herself in occipital-atlas and axis-atlas articulations and bringing her hind legs deep under her body, is senseless and destructive for a horse, for her back, loins and the muscles of the upper limb girdle.
-Alexander Nevzorov
If somebody likes horses he must either choose horses as his profession, or collect post cards with horses. To make a horse someone's profession means to dedicate his entire life to horses.
-Alexander Nevzorov
A horse and any kind of sloppiness are completely contradictory. Plus you have serious inner requisites, for example, vegetarianism as an ethical choice (if you work with animals please do not eat them). The Spartans said vegetarianism teaches a man to scorn pleasure. Meat is not a food; it's just an unnecessary pleasure. If someone seeks pleasure in food, who can guarantee, that he would not do the same with a horse?
-Alexander Nevzorov
A horse is not a mode of transportation, but a living creature with a soul, heart, perfect mind and capability to learn. She is phenomenally smart and ready to cooperate with a man without force.
-Alexander Nevzorov
A horse is a touchstone on which you can know who and what a man is.
-Alexander Nevzorov
Every horse has it's own striking character; stallions have it too. When I say "character" I mean the way they respond to external input, in which case the horse is never wrong.
-Alexander Nevzorov
Horses are creatures that are not ruled by human principles. They do not care about their nationality; they do not celebrate New Year's Eve or their birthdays. They are creatures that are not constrained by human moral or ethical principles.
-Alexander Nevzorov
The horse is an exact science. She doesn't tolerate any dilettantism.
-Alexander Nevzorov
We are all children of the same evolutionary process and when we teach a horse we must base it on absolute and honest equality. First of all we must want to be understood.
-Alexander Nevzorov
You should never show your power and you should pretend that you haven't got it at all. So it goes with horses, especially with stallions, who are power-loving by nature and are always ready to fight to be in charge.
-Alexander Nevzorov
To me, a horse was always the most interesting thing. A horse is a sensitive, highly intellectual, capable of suffering and spiritual being, which has been so humiliated by humans. As for me, when I communicate with a horse, I understand that I am dealing with a highly evolved creature, which has it's own intellect and soul, so I'm endlessly respectful of her.
-Alexander Nevzorov
The true home of the horse is freedom.
-Alexander Nevzorov
They are far more rational and noble than people are.
-Alexander Nevzorov
All the elements of Haute Ecole such as capriole, courbette, pesade, terre-a-terre, spanish walk, douze and piaffe are the free, natural movements of a healthy and excited horse.
-Alexander Nevzorov
I have only a dry hawthorn twig and some knowledge of how to conquer horses’ hearts. That's all.
-Alexander Nevzorov
The glance from a horse’s big, cautiously sad eyes from beneath her forelock instantly debases all the vanity which compromises 99% of a man.
-Alexander Nevzorov
Horses can capitally gauge the situation. They scan the emotions of the most seemingly understandable person present with a deep-eyed accuracy. Then they make their own very accurate conclusions.
-Alexander Nevzorov
Friendship is always hard work. As it is known, you fairly often have to sacrifice your own pleasures in the name of friendship. If you will not build up a friendship, weaving its cloth with an endless patience, fitting it thread to thread, you will never gain success. Making friends with a horse is far more difficult work, but you may have staggering results.
-Alexander Nevzorov
A recumbent horse is absolutely defenseless, and she knows it quite well. Her readiness to lie down while a man is around means she has absolute confidence towards him and acknowledges him as a safe being and a defender.
-Alexander Nevzorov
A horse's willingness to play with you, to play with you devotedly, a hundred-per-cent, is her first acknowledgment of a man if not equal, then at least, worth mentioning. As soon as games gain the horse's trust and her affection stabilizes, she begins to understand that a man is a main event in her life, and that this event is pleasant, and then you can begin the real education.
-Alexander Nevzorov
A horse's readiness to lie down and her condescension to the fact, that you can lie down on her is a necessary confirmation, a kind of verification of the horse's endless confidence towards you.
-Alexander Nevzorov
The secret of your relationship with a horse is that you must love her essence while watching her. You must feel her pain, fright and discomfort as you own. You must love her strange viewpoint (from a human’s point of view) and try to share it. The secret of a horse's soul is that a horse owes you nothing and has no need to obey you.
-Alexander Nevzorov
Sensitive, energetic, and proud horses are usually even more clever than others.
-Alexander Nevzorov
Within world history, man and horse are bound so tightly, that sometimes it's hard to determine where man's concern ends and horses’ concern begins.
-Alexander Nevzorov
If a horse doesn't want to do something it means that she hasn't been taught to do it. If a horse does something badly it means that she was badly taught. The horse is always right.
-Alexander Nevzorov
A horse is a very talented creature. When you feel it, you want to unlock this talent again and again, to master and to learn new elements and figures.
-Alexander Nevzorov
Movement is her organic, continual need; it is stronger than the need for food, rest and sex.
-Alexander Nevzorov
The more natural and full your belief in a horse's intellect is, the better results of her education you will get.
-Alexander Nevzorov
A horse is strikingly, infernally intelligent. She has a very nimble, very clever brain and has a good capacity to analyze.
-Alexander Nevzorov
The process of educating a human being and the process of educating a horse are completely different. It is easier to teach a horse.
-Alexander Nevzorov
I often say, "The horse is an exact science". Without comprehensive knowledge of equine anatomy, physiology and biomechanics, which should not be formal, or intellectual but "blazing, live, detailed knowledge" even the simplest "work in hand" is impossible.
-Alexander Nevzorov
The motto of the School, which I represent is, "The horse is always right". Every mistake, discrepancy, misunderstanding, or kink in the work with a horse is always a man's fault; he is the one who should be punished.
-Alexander Nevzorov
A horse has nothing to do or to perform. She doesn’t have a critical need to communicate with a man, while a man has a critical need to communicate with a horse.
-Alexander Nevzorov
Being alongside the human is supposed to be a free and conscious choice for the horse.
-Alexander Nevzorov
Sometimes, we must create mountainous challenges to only later realize how simple things really are.
-Michael Bevilacqua
No sane horse ever recognizes your seniority based simply on the fact that you are a man.
-Alexander Nevzorov
It isn't necessary to teach the horse to understand, he understands everything splendidly. Man is the one who must learn. Man needs to learn how to understand the horse.
-Alexander Nevzorov
When we want solutions with horses it seems odd that we often walk away from our horses to seek answers from people.
-Michael Bevilacqua
From the very first minutes of relationship with a horse I try not to lose the slightest part of her natural energy. I cultivate conceit, spirit, and courage in the horse, and I look upon these qualities as the greatest treasure.
-Alexander Nevzorov
People can play with words all they want. In the end, what matters is how it affects the horse.
-Michael Bevilacqua
An exercise that the horse does not like makes not the slightest sense to me.
-Alexander Nevzorov
The horse is phenomenally rational, and always responds directly to the action that she perceives, to the relation she feels towards herself and to the situation which she is in control of.
-Alexander Nevzorov
When most people say that they are searching for answers and truth, what they really want is to hear what suits them. How often is the answer really coming from the horse?
-Michael Bevilacqua
The basic relationship between you and your horse is not something that can be found in a book or taught to you by someone else. It is very personal and unique between both you and your horse.
-Michael Bevilacqua
In wanting to work with horses it is imperative that we first work on ourselves. If you can sit quietly and think about how you truly are and what you want with horses, without judging your thoughts but simply being aware of them, this can bring you clarity. What you know, what you like, what you do not like, how you wish it may be different... It can put you at peace with yourself and allow you to move forward.
-Michael Bevilacqua
The balance between insight and logic can flow together. At liberty with horses it is observation and spontaneous reaction that seems to bring human and horse into sync. This is part of the common phrases, 'going with the flow' or 'being in the moment'. It is part of the bond that creates the dance, the play, the happiness in moving together.
-Michael Bevilacqua
Every moment is a learning experience.To make it all seem simple: If a horse does something you do not like, tell him not to do it but show him what to do instead. Wild play remains fun through awareness and self-control. That applies for both people and horses. When the idea of training is dissolved, ironically, that is when all becomes possible.
-Michael Bevilacqua
Trust and understanding are far better than training.
-Michael Bevilacqua
Notice how people react or interact with a young foal. If I had the power to take anyone’s horse and shrink him down to the size of a Chihuahua, the relationship would instantly change. Why would an adult horse change his perspective or attitude toward humans as compared to an exhuberant, playful, affectionate foal?
-Michael Bevilacqua
Time spent with the horse should not be solely for trying to get something done. By treating the horse as a cherished companion, the barrier between human and horse ceases to exist.
-Michael Bevilacqua
People who do not think far enough ahead, inevitably have worries near at hand.
-Confucius
When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or man, don't be surprised if they learn the lesson.
It is easier to acknowledge your horse's faults, once you have acknowledged your own.
To err is human, to blame the horse is even more human.
Care, and not fine stables, makes a good horse.
I have seen things so beautiful, they have brought tears to my eyes. Yet, none of them can match the gracefulness and beauty of a horse running free.
Most horses have back problems, but the problem is normally on their back & not in their back.
If you take the time it takes, it will take less time.
A poor craftsman blames his tools; A poor horseman blames his horse.
How do you catch a loose horse? - Make a noise like a carrot.
A horse loves freedom, and the weariest old work horse will roll on the ground or break into a lumbering gallop when he is turned loose into the open.
One reason why birds and horses are happy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
What the colt learns in youth he continues in old age.
The eternal and wonderful sight of horses at liberty is magical to watch.
Horses can't talk but they can speak, if you know how to listen.
The golden rule in dealing with a horse - is never to approach him angrily. Anger is so devoid of forethought that it will often drive a man to do things which in a calmer mood, he will regret.
You cannot train a horse with shouts and expect it to obey a whisper.
Many people have sighed for the "good old days" and regretted the "passing of the horse" but today, when only those who like horses own them, it is a far better time for horses.
MORE QUOTES TO COME.
The stronger you desire a result, the more it slips away. The main skill while working in hand is the skill of not desiring a result.
-Alexander Nevzorov
LECTIO EQUARIA PALAESTRA is a very old School technique, by which absolutely any horse can learn to read and count quickly and easily, grasping the language of human numbers and letters, so seemingly alien to her.
-Alexander Nevzorov
"Work in hand" is an art far more cunning and sublime than riding.
-Alexander Nevzorov
A horse has absolutely NO reason to consider a human to be a reasonable being.
-Alexander Nevzorov
While studying LECTIO EQUARIA PALAESTRA with a horse, a human proves to the horse his intelligence and gradually strives so that the sounds he emits would no longer seem to the horse the same as the cow’s moo or the grasshopper’s chirps sound to a human.
-Alexander Nevzorov
During the LECTIO EQUARIA PALAESTRA lessons, a horse for the first time finds out that there are systems, logic, connections and information in the things a human is doing, that a human has, however humorous, an intellect.
-Alexander Nevozorov
"The Game as a School element" is something that can be stopped in less than a second at the first request of a tutor.
-Alexander Nevzorov
Any kind of faking or forcing "the game" just makes a horse hysterical, totally erasing all the strides of the manege education.
-Alexander Nevzorov
The sine qua non of the School "in hand" education en bloc and in the segment concerning manege reading (the teaching of the horse to spell and read) is the deeply and strongly noticeable individualism of a horse, it is important to accrue and preserve EVERY part of a horse’s temper.
-Alexander Nevzorov
A School horse is a "horse created by hands", a creature which has accumulated a great amount of a tutor's knowledge and everyday labour. In other words, it is a horse who has an added value.
-Alexander Nevzorov
A School horse is a unique creature because of her experiences and skills. She has an education, the creation of a school horse is the creation of an absolutely exceptional and outstanding creature. The special care and special vigilant watch are quite suited to her.
-Alexander Nevzorov
The intellectual faculties of a horse are completely incredible. It is noteworthy that in the alliance, which is necessary for the successful practice of LECTIO EQUARIA PALAESTRA one must have a horse who demonstrates the capability to comprehend the language of another species. A human cannot yet even guess what the horse's language really is and how it sounds.
-Alexander Nevzorov
A human on the back of the horse is never pleasant for her. Regardless of who this human is.
-Alexander Nevzorov
A horse's back is not a seat, not a place for human's buttocks, not a piece of "meat", not some kind of "buttress". It is a complex and very tender anatomical structure with an "extreme" physiological function.
-Alexander Nevzorov
It is very hard to understand sometimes, where the School as a spiritual practice ends and when it becomes the art of working with a horse. Both of these parts are associated.
-Alexander Nevzorov
MAGNITUDO is a very noble wish to give a horse her full myological potential, to develop her, to develop her musculature as it was designed by nature.
-Alexander Nevzorov
The only supplemental tack that is acknowledged by the School is a CORDEO - a looped leather strap or cord.
-Alexander Nevzorov
The use of the CORDEO, strictly speaking, is necessary only to achieve the correct geometry and the strict alignment of a horse for any lifts on the hind legs.
-Alexander Nevzorov
The word "manege", appropriately, is a purely School word and literally means "a place for work... in hand" (from the Latin manus - hand).
-Alexander Nevzorov
"Amateurs," those who want to use a horse for recreation, are not allowed to work a School horse, a horse shouldn't be considered "public property".
-Alexander Nevzorov
Caracol is the most "powerful" and simultaneously energetic exercise. It is an old School designation. In the first centuries of the School it meant a very collected forceful canter, the most effective of all the canters.
-Alexander Nevzorov
I'll say between you and me that games are a magic clue. The correct combination of games and exercises gives striking results.
-Alexander Nevzorov
Pesades (a lifting on the hind legs) aren't dangerous, or not more dangerous than any energetic movement of a playful horse.
-Alexander Nevzorov
Games are a choreography in which every participant understands his role well and knows his limits.
-Alexander Nevzorov
A whip (a twig) simply assists a discipline named "toucher" and works as a soft cue while learning to lift legs during passage, piaffe or courbettes. It isn't perceived in any other way by a horse.
-Alexander Nevzorov
A movement without collection, without a natural "lively" collection, without a horse bending herself in occipital-atlas and axis-atlas articulations and bringing her hind legs deep under her body, is senseless and destructive for a horse, for her back, loins and the muscles of the upper limb girdle.
-Alexander Nevzorov
If somebody likes horses he must either choose horses as his profession, or collect post cards with horses. To make a horse someone's profession means to dedicate his entire life to horses.
-Alexander Nevzorov
A horse and any kind of sloppiness are completely contradictory. Plus you have serious inner requisites, for example, vegetarianism as an ethical choice (if you work with animals please do not eat them). The Spartans said vegetarianism teaches a man to scorn pleasure. Meat is not a food; it's just an unnecessary pleasure. If someone seeks pleasure in food, who can guarantee, that he would not do the same with a horse?
-Alexander Nevzorov
A horse is not a mode of transportation, but a living creature with a soul, heart, perfect mind and capability to learn. She is phenomenally smart and ready to cooperate with a man without force.
-Alexander Nevzorov
A horse is a touchstone on which you can know who and what a man is.
-Alexander Nevzorov
Every horse has it's own striking character; stallions have it too. When I say "character" I mean the way they respond to external input, in which case the horse is never wrong.
-Alexander Nevzorov
Horses are creatures that are not ruled by human principles. They do not care about their nationality; they do not celebrate New Year's Eve or their birthdays. They are creatures that are not constrained by human moral or ethical principles.
-Alexander Nevzorov
The horse is an exact science. She doesn't tolerate any dilettantism.
-Alexander Nevzorov
We are all children of the same evolutionary process and when we teach a horse we must base it on absolute and honest equality. First of all we must want to be understood.
-Alexander Nevzorov
You should never show your power and you should pretend that you haven't got it at all. So it goes with horses, especially with stallions, who are power-loving by nature and are always ready to fight to be in charge.
-Alexander Nevzorov
To me, a horse was always the most interesting thing. A horse is a sensitive, highly intellectual, capable of suffering and spiritual being, which has been so humiliated by humans. As for me, when I communicate with a horse, I understand that I am dealing with a highly evolved creature, which has it's own intellect and soul, so I'm endlessly respectful of her.
-Alexander Nevzorov
The true home of the horse is freedom.
-Alexander Nevzorov
They are far more rational and noble than people are.
-Alexander Nevzorov
All the elements of Haute Ecole such as capriole, courbette, pesade, terre-a-terre, spanish walk, douze and piaffe are the free, natural movements of a healthy and excited horse.
-Alexander Nevzorov
I have only a dry hawthorn twig and some knowledge of how to conquer horses’ hearts. That's all.
-Alexander Nevzorov
The glance from a horse’s big, cautiously sad eyes from beneath her forelock instantly debases all the vanity which compromises 99% of a man.
-Alexander Nevzorov
Horses can capitally gauge the situation. They scan the emotions of the most seemingly understandable person present with a deep-eyed accuracy. Then they make their own very accurate conclusions.
-Alexander Nevzorov
Friendship is always hard work. As it is known, you fairly often have to sacrifice your own pleasures in the name of friendship. If you will not build up a friendship, weaving its cloth with an endless patience, fitting it thread to thread, you will never gain success. Making friends with a horse is far more difficult work, but you may have staggering results.
-Alexander Nevzorov
A recumbent horse is absolutely defenseless, and she knows it quite well. Her readiness to lie down while a man is around means she has absolute confidence towards him and acknowledges him as a safe being and a defender.
-Alexander Nevzorov
A horse's willingness to play with you, to play with you devotedly, a hundred-per-cent, is her first acknowledgment of a man if not equal, then at least, worth mentioning. As soon as games gain the horse's trust and her affection stabilizes, she begins to understand that a man is a main event in her life, and that this event is pleasant, and then you can begin the real education.
-Alexander Nevzorov
A horse's readiness to lie down and her condescension to the fact, that you can lie down on her is a necessary confirmation, a kind of verification of the horse's endless confidence towards you.
-Alexander Nevzorov
The secret of your relationship with a horse is that you must love her essence while watching her. You must feel her pain, fright and discomfort as you own. You must love her strange viewpoint (from a human’s point of view) and try to share it. The secret of a horse's soul is that a horse owes you nothing and has no need to obey you.
-Alexander Nevzorov
Sensitive, energetic, and proud horses are usually even more clever than others.
-Alexander Nevzorov
Within world history, man and horse are bound so tightly, that sometimes it's hard to determine where man's concern ends and horses’ concern begins.
-Alexander Nevzorov
If a horse doesn't want to do something it means that she hasn't been taught to do it. If a horse does something badly it means that she was badly taught. The horse is always right.
-Alexander Nevzorov
A horse is a very talented creature. When you feel it, you want to unlock this talent again and again, to master and to learn new elements and figures.
-Alexander Nevzorov
Movement is her organic, continual need; it is stronger than the need for food, rest and sex.
-Alexander Nevzorov
The more natural and full your belief in a horse's intellect is, the better results of her education you will get.
-Alexander Nevzorov
A horse is strikingly, infernally intelligent. She has a very nimble, very clever brain and has a good capacity to analyze.
-Alexander Nevzorov
The process of educating a human being and the process of educating a horse are completely different. It is easier to teach a horse.
-Alexander Nevzorov
I often say, "The horse is an exact science". Without comprehensive knowledge of equine anatomy, physiology and biomechanics, which should not be formal, or intellectual but "blazing, live, detailed knowledge" even the simplest "work in hand" is impossible.
-Alexander Nevzorov
The motto of the School, which I represent is, "The horse is always right". Every mistake, discrepancy, misunderstanding, or kink in the work with a horse is always a man's fault; he is the one who should be punished.
-Alexander Nevzorov
A horse has nothing to do or to perform. She doesn’t have a critical need to communicate with a man, while a man has a critical need to communicate with a horse.
-Alexander Nevzorov
Being alongside the human is supposed to be a free and conscious choice for the horse.
-Alexander Nevzorov
Sometimes, we must create mountainous challenges to only later realize how simple things really are.
-Michael Bevilacqua
No sane horse ever recognizes your seniority based simply on the fact that you are a man.
-Alexander Nevzorov
It isn't necessary to teach the horse to understand, he understands everything splendidly. Man is the one who must learn. Man needs to learn how to understand the horse.
-Alexander Nevzorov
When we want solutions with horses it seems odd that we often walk away from our horses to seek answers from people.
-Michael Bevilacqua
From the very first minutes of relationship with a horse I try not to lose the slightest part of her natural energy. I cultivate conceit, spirit, and courage in the horse, and I look upon these qualities as the greatest treasure.
-Alexander Nevzorov
People can play with words all they want. In the end, what matters is how it affects the horse.
-Michael Bevilacqua
An exercise that the horse does not like makes not the slightest sense to me.
-Alexander Nevzorov
The horse is phenomenally rational, and always responds directly to the action that she perceives, to the relation she feels towards herself and to the situation which she is in control of.
-Alexander Nevzorov
When most people say that they are searching for answers and truth, what they really want is to hear what suits them. How often is the answer really coming from the horse?
-Michael Bevilacqua
The basic relationship between you and your horse is not something that can be found in a book or taught to you by someone else. It is very personal and unique between both you and your horse.
-Michael Bevilacqua
In wanting to work with horses it is imperative that we first work on ourselves. If you can sit quietly and think about how you truly are and what you want with horses, without judging your thoughts but simply being aware of them, this can bring you clarity. What you know, what you like, what you do not like, how you wish it may be different... It can put you at peace with yourself and allow you to move forward.
-Michael Bevilacqua
The balance between insight and logic can flow together. At liberty with horses it is observation and spontaneous reaction that seems to bring human and horse into sync. This is part of the common phrases, 'going with the flow' or 'being in the moment'. It is part of the bond that creates the dance, the play, the happiness in moving together.
-Michael Bevilacqua
Every moment is a learning experience.To make it all seem simple: If a horse does something you do not like, tell him not to do it but show him what to do instead. Wild play remains fun through awareness and self-control. That applies for both people and horses. When the idea of training is dissolved, ironically, that is when all becomes possible.
-Michael Bevilacqua
Trust and understanding are far better than training.
-Michael Bevilacqua
Notice how people react or interact with a young foal. If I had the power to take anyone’s horse and shrink him down to the size of a Chihuahua, the relationship would instantly change. Why would an adult horse change his perspective or attitude toward humans as compared to an exhuberant, playful, affectionate foal?
-Michael Bevilacqua
Time spent with the horse should not be solely for trying to get something done. By treating the horse as a cherished companion, the barrier between human and horse ceases to exist.
-Michael Bevilacqua
People who do not think far enough ahead, inevitably have worries near at hand.
-Confucius
When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or man, don't be surprised if they learn the lesson.
It is easier to acknowledge your horse's faults, once you have acknowledged your own.
To err is human, to blame the horse is even more human.
Care, and not fine stables, makes a good horse.
I have seen things so beautiful, they have brought tears to my eyes. Yet, none of them can match the gracefulness and beauty of a horse running free.
Most horses have back problems, but the problem is normally on their back & not in their back.
If you take the time it takes, it will take less time.
A poor craftsman blames his tools; A poor horseman blames his horse.
How do you catch a loose horse? - Make a noise like a carrot.
A horse loves freedom, and the weariest old work horse will roll on the ground or break into a lumbering gallop when he is turned loose into the open.
One reason why birds and horses are happy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
What the colt learns in youth he continues in old age.
The eternal and wonderful sight of horses at liberty is magical to watch.
Horses can't talk but they can speak, if you know how to listen.
The golden rule in dealing with a horse - is never to approach him angrily. Anger is so devoid of forethought that it will often drive a man to do things which in a calmer mood, he will regret.
You cannot train a horse with shouts and expect it to obey a whisper.
Many people have sighed for the "good old days" and regretted the "passing of the horse" but today, when only those who like horses own them, it is a far better time for horses.
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