gdp's Comments

http://prayersoflight.blogspot.com/ : Escaping the prison words

Sat, 28 Feb 2015 03:14:05 +0000

Thank you, Kathy!:)

http://prayersoflight.blogspot.com/ : The day God said, \"I\'m sorry.\"

Mon, 1 Sep 2014 15:30:04 +0000

Oh girl, I would love to!! I miss you!!!

http://prayersoflight.blogspot.com/ : The day God said, \"I\'m sorry.\"

Wed, 27 Aug 2014 20:39:04 +0000

Thank you, Con, that is very encouraging to me. :)

http://www.cambriahorsemanship.com/ : May 27 - crowd of kids, neck rope lunging

Fri, 13 Jun 2014 21:51:04 +0000

Thank you so much! She is a great horse. :)

http://thousanddollarhour.com/ : Speaking

Fri, 11 Oct 2013 14:41:03 +0000

Thank you so much for writing! I'm afraid I don't have any more upcoming community eds, but I am getting my talk filmed and on DVD for those who couldn't make it! I'll send you an email with more information. :)

http://prayersoflight.blogspot.com/ : A mourning dove

Thu, 3 Oct 2013 21:39:03 +0000

Thank you so much, Jody, that is sweet. Birdsong is so powerful, like they're speaking to us... perhaps they are. :)

http://prayersoflight.blogspot.com/ : A walk in the woods

Thu, 3 Oct 2013 21:37:03 +0000

Hi Michell! Thanks so much for your encouraging words -- I went to your blog and am following you there, I love how active you are and all you're doing. :)

http://thousanddollarhour.com/ : Speaking

Thu, 26 Sep 2013 19:34:03 +0000

Hi Jason,

Thanks so much for writing!That is all I have at the moment, but I'm in the midst of perhaps doing some winter community ed, as well as coming back to Owatonna for that class in February. Keep on checking the schedule and hopefully something will come up! Meanwhile, you can always take a look at my book (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008K7UWA8/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B008K7UWA8&linkCode=as2&tag=cambriaho-20) which has all of the same information as the talk!

Blessings,
Hannah

http://prayersoflight.blogspot.com/ : When Yahweh Shows Up - The Rebelution Blog

Mon, 19 Aug 2013 22:40:03 +0000

That's powerful... thank you for sharing that. I think I'd like to know the other songs you like, too. :)

http://www.catherinepng.blogspot.com/ : Seeing Green

Wed, 7 Aug 2013 21:21:46 +0000

The green is mold. The money is no good; better give it all to me. ;)

http://thousanddollarhour.com/ : Scholarship Myth #7: Be involved in as much as possible

Fri, 2 Aug 2013 22:58:03 +0000

I'm so glad you see it, too! It's definitely not worth burning out over. :)

http://prayersoflight.blogspot.com/ : \"Stay with the pain\"

Tue, 23 Jul 2013 00:22:04 +0000

Thank you so much for your encouragement -- Yahweh used your words to really speak to me.

And feeling alone, so alone in pain, can make it so much worse. I pray the rest of Henri Nouwen's words (some of which I quoted in this post) will encourage you :http://blog.beliefnet.com/beyondblue/2009/07/henri-nouwen-stay-with-your-pa.html

http://www.catherinepng.blogspot.com/ : In Which Jesus Was Properly Baptized

Thu, 18 Jul 2013 16:14:38 +0000

Ahahahhahaa, Jesus bitten by a fish... that's an image...

http://prayersoflight.blogspot.com/ : When winter passes

Sat, 13 Jul 2013 22:16:03 +0000

I feel like Eowyn a great deal of the time -- or I wish to be like her -- or, perhaps, it's the same thing.

Beautiful Hope : help?

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:31:53 +0000

Flies can make it so hard to work, as the horses are so buzzy they can't seem to think clearly enough to really think through what they're doing, particularly with release. Is perhaps there another time of day you could go out? (If nothing else, I personally hate working around bugs, so I do everything I can to avoid it. ;) ) Don't get discouraged! Release is a process, something I often use but sometimes use pressure as well. Even on the best days sometimes Maia won't seem to quite grasp it, and pressure (or even food) seems to be much clearer to her. I'm always willing to switch it up! Just like traditional cues, it may take weeks or even months of work to get a near 100% consistent response to it, and different parts will be clearer to different horses (Maia is great for moving sideways off release, but has a tougher time stopping on it.) Yes, being snappy is great for those LBEs! Release has nothing to do with "doing nothing." :) So you'll play with it, but part of release can be getting the response you want *instantly* -- meaning, you might go right to a phase 4, as long as it's not on the horse and causing pain (usually ;) ). So for example, if he was starting to barge into your space, I'd take the end of the rope and HIT it on the ground in front of you as HARD as you can and you literally want to scare/shock him out of your space -- without actually having "driven" him. You may need to hit the ground a few times, but the bigger you can scare him the first time, the better. A lot of bargeyness seems to come from horses who are really dulled down to space, dropped on their forehand, etc, so actually scaring/shocking them in one single move to backing off can be really helpful for resetting their pattern. Make sense?

http://prayersoflight.blogspot.com/ : Voice of the divine in a bareback ride

Fri, 7 Jun 2013 17:15:03 +0000

That's a really good post by Kristina... thanks for sharing. :)

http://prayersoflight.blogspot.com/ : The freedom experiment (and a coconut on the fridge)

Mon, 13 May 2013 19:11:03 +0000

Thank you, Betty! What a wonderful story you have regarding dance -- I am sure that made a deep impression on your neighbors who weren't yet followers of Yahweh. Thank you for your encouraging words as well, that means so much to me and gives me strength. I hope someday we can indeed meet face to face. :)

http://prayersoflight.blogspot.com/ : When I fly above the clouds

Sat, 11 May 2013 23:27:03 +0000

Thank you, Charity! You're so sweet. :)

Beautiful Hope : april thirtieth, two-thousand and thirteen

Tue, 7 May 2013 13:48:31 +0000

I am so excited for you!! This is absolutely wonderful! Yes, slowing down is huge. Often when I'm playing with release for a horse, I go incredibly slowly -- I might offer them some rope and wait for a full minute, sometimes even minutes, especially if they seem like they're thinking a lot (quivering their lips, wiggling ears, etc.). I'm so glad you slowed down a bit and he caught on! And you're exactly right -- when bends come from release, they are usually much straighter. A big sign that lateral flexion has been trained through pressure (as is usual!) is that the horse's head is usually tilted. However, through release, they usually keep it straight and turn from their shoulders versus twisting at the poll. Way to notice that! Don't worry, you're going to not always know when it's a "fluke" and when it isn't -- that's another hallmark of release. ;) It'll get easier to see when they've actually responded and when they just turned to bite at a fly or look at something in the distance, but honestly, even that is sometimes intertwined. Often with release, the horse feels very free and like he has a voice in how he does something -- not pressured -- and so sometimes will put a purpose to whatever you asked through release, such as grabbing a bite of grass, rubbing their nose on their fetlock (when they dropped their head), or looking off in the distance. I believe this comes also because the horse doesn't see it as "training" or "learning a new cue" and so it becomes his idea, and if it's his idea, he'll naturally do something natural for a horse to do, such as turn to look/eat grass/etc. Does that make sense? Next steps! Play with getting lateral flexion on the ground, and you can even play with it in a cordeo/neckrope. Also start asking him to drop his head through release from the ground. I got a bit of video of me doing that with some horses yesterday I'll try to put up. You'll stand maybe back by their shoulder, or if it's better, way out in front (like the horse were at the end of the Parelli Yo-Yo Game). Offer some release, and really visualize you filling up the space above their head with a vacuum below their head. You're not visualizing pressuring the head down, instead, I like to think of it as more of painting a color above their head and clear (no color) below their head. Make sure you keep breathing and don't stare into their eyes OR at the space below their muzzle, because they'll feel that pressure. Offer some release AND BREATHE! :) Sometimes it'll take a full minute or more for them to understand the first few times. If they're wiggling or turning their head, see if you can straighten it out a bit. Scratch the rope with your fingernails, even put a teeny pressure on it and then offer some nice release, really really experiment. There are no rules!! Let me know how it goes!

Beautiful Hope : trying out release work

Tue, 7 May 2013 04:04:03 +0000

Sounds awesome, I can't wait to see the video!

Interesting about holding the lateral flexion. Have you tried surprising him when he goes into that, like handing him a treat or playing with his tongue or walking away or...? Does it seem like he goes introverted and shut down or is it just his way of being a little unsure? :) Is he a right brain introvert?