Common problems such as horses that take three hours to load, or refuse to load at all, are often caused or exacerbated by inadvertent use of Equus! You stand in front of the horse look him in the eye, which tells him to back off, and you then pull, and because horses are ‘into pressure’ animals, he pulls right back. Horses that have never been trained using Equus, often load very well. However, how many of them would load by simply following their owner into the box with no head collar? Very few, but any horse that has been trained to load using Equus, will load easily with no head collar, if required.

We at the Spanish Mustang Stud also promote the use of Reiki and crystal healing. This can be extremely effective using it on an excitable horse to facilitate learning, or on traumatised horses as part of their remedial equus training.

This is a very simple, non-intrusive and extremely powerful process. There is no bodily pressure or manipulation, making it ideal for working with all conditions. As with people, your horse will generally feel a pleasant sensation of warmth or tingling in the vicinity of the area being worked on and as the healing energies come into balance, the horse may also feel a deep sense of relaxation and well being.

Reiki will compliment and usually help increase the effectiveness of most kinds of treatment and medication. It is a completely safe, natural and holistic.

The basis of the approach is totally non violent. There is a much better, kinder, effective and quicker way of getting your horse to do what you want, it is quite simple - you ask, and then make it easy for the horse to get it right, and if it get is wrong, correct it, and then ask again.

Body language is paramount to the use of Equus, as in the wild this is the primary way of communicating within the herd, though you can even see this if you watch horses in a paddock together. Direct eye contact, standing square, or dropping your eyes and shoulders all have very strong meanings in the horses’ world. Most people just read the obvious, ears forward means happy, ears back means beware. There is much much more than that, and if you can read and even better communicate using this body language, you have overcome the biggest hurdle, as you are talking to them in their language. Hence the term ‘horse whisperers’. There is no black magic involved it is actually very logical or some might describe it as ‘natural’. Though the word natural, when attached to anything equine, seems to be a very misused, but an equally misunderstood term.

Many people of course achieve wonderful things with horses using the conventional, non equus methods, but a horse doing as it is told, is not the same thing as a horse that has learned to do as it is asked.

Just contact Rowan for an informal chat, it maybe that there is another approach you could try to help your situation. Back>>