The Sound Horse
Classical training is physical therapy for the horse. Done right, it rebuilds the body from the ground up, transforming dysfunction into health and brilliance.
Read ›An ancient method of training horses, passed down from the Spanish Riding School, becomes a pathway to recovery – for both horses and humans. The method is the medicine. Humans helping horses so those horses can then help humans.
Classical training is physical therapy for the horse. Done right, it rebuilds the body from the ground up, transforming dysfunction into health and brilliance.
Read ›A sound horse can do for a broken human what no other animal can do. Its movement works on the body where medicine cannot.
Read ›The arena is the furnace. The horse is the fuel. The rider is the match. From this refiner’s fire emerges something that neither horse nor rider alone could have become.
Ruby needed a home. We needed a horse. What began as a practical solution became something neither of us planned. Will Ruby become sound? Will Kelly come back? Will the method hold up under the weight of the two lives that need it the most? Will restoration come quickly or slowly, and for whom will it come?
I came to this work to help the horses. I found the horses were not the only ones it helped. Classical horsemanship has been practiced for centuries with only the horse in mind. What it can do for a broken human is something the Old Masters never wrote down.
Start with the horse·Start with the human·Start where they meet