What makes Natural Horsemanship different from what many consider ‘normal’ horse training?
With NHMS the focus is on Thinking Like a Horse first – before thinking like a human. It’s all about looking at life from your horse’s point of view, and making choices and decisions that relate to your horses’ needs, not just to the human’s needs. Of course this requires that the human be educated about horse psychology and behaviour so that they are able to know what the horse’s point of view is, and what his or her needs are, aside from the obvious physical ones that relate to survival. So natural horsemanship differs from ‘normal’ in that there is a huge emphasis on a horse’s psychology before anything else, Plus – and this is something often overlooked in ‘normal’ – on the human’s personal development. Work on yourself, play with your horse! How did you get into Natural Horsemanship? Serendipity! I was a city girl who had lived in cities around the world and on coming back to Australia, moved to the country. As destiny would have it, on the property next door were two horses, and
