Ik heb net bij proxis het nieuwste boek van Mark Rashid besteld.
Horsemanship Through Life

Het lijkt erop dat hij net als ik op zoek is en wegen gevonden heeft
om in eenheid, kalmte en harmonie met zijn paard te rijden
Voor mij betekend dit, dat ik me vooral focus op het plezier dat ik Shadow kan geven tijdens onze ritten. Voor haar is dit een nieuwe focus, ze is 15 jaar en voor mij heeft ze vele eigenaren gehad. Ze doet het prima, heeft er alleen nog niet zoveel plezier in, wil niet graag van huis.

Ik vond deze boek beschrijving op www.markrashid.com

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Horsemanship Through Life
When Mark Rashid finds himself lying in the dirt during a
horsemanship clinic he is conducting in England, he realizes that
his fall, the first in many, many years, is much more than a simple
fall from a horse. Mark sees this timely accident as a wake up call
that slowly moves him to rediscover the meaning of his life's work
with people and the horses they love. Even as a highly successful
author, teacher and clinician, Mark is forced to face the fact that
he had become somewhat complacent in his work and that he had
stopped growing as a horseman and as a person. Mark's efforts to
recover from years of physical injuries and to rekindle his passion
for working with horses are at the heart of Horsemanship Through
Life.

As Mark looks back on a series of seemingly unrelated events that
ultimately led to the fall in England, he begins to realize that he
needs to create room in his life for the personal and professional
growth he is seeking. A chance encounter with a man at one of his
clinics ultimately leads Mark to become a student of the Japanese
martial art aikido, "The Way of Harmony." That decision takes Mark
back to his roots with the "old man" who taught him how to work with
horses, and moves him forward to a new and clearer understanding of
the concepts of blending and flowing with a horse's energy, rather
than fighting against it. The result of his efforts is a renewed
commitment to compassionate communication with horses, using honor,
integrity and dignity
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