A Journey to Softness: In Search of Feel and Connection with the Horse
Mark Rashid shares personal stories about events in his life that helped him on his journey to softness, as well as the stumbling blocks along the way. The narrative includes a section in which Mark passes on the experiences of others from a wide variety of walks of life and occupations, all sharing their views on how feel, connection and softness apply to their respective professions. Those interviewed for this special section include a musician who has written and performed several number one country music hits, a highly decorated helicopter pilot, a movie actor, a college professor, a master carpenter, an artist, and numerous others. What the reader learns by example is how to develop feel, relaxation, connection, and softness in both horse and rider. The methods and techniques Mark demonstrated have been gleaned from decades of work with horses and horse people, as well as while he trained with world-class martial artists whose lives have been dedicated to developing softness and connection with a partner through feel.
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A Journey to Softness: In Search of Feel and Connection with the Horse
Mark Rashid shares personal stories about events in his life that helped him on his journey to softness, as well as the stumbling blocks along the way. The narrative includes a section in which Mark passes on the experiences of others from a wide variety of walks of life and occupations, all sharing their views on how feel, connection and softness apply to their respective professions. Those interviewed for this special section include a musician who has written and performed several number one country music hits, a highly decorated helicopter pilot, a movie actor, a college professor, a master carpenter, an artist, and numerous others. What the reader learns by example is how to develop feel, relaxation, connection, and softness in both horse and rider. The methods and techniques Mark demonstrated have been gleaned from decades of work with horses and horse people, as well as while he trained with world-class martial artists whose lives have been dedicated to developing softness and connection with a partner through feel.
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A Journey to Softness: In Search of Feel and Connection with the Horse

A Journey to Softness: In Search of Feel and Connection with the Horse

by Mark Rashid
A Journey to Softness: In Search of Feel and Connection with the Horse

A Journey to Softness: In Search of Feel and Connection with the Horse

by Mark Rashid

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Overview

Mark Rashid shares personal stories about events in his life that helped him on his journey to softness, as well as the stumbling blocks along the way. The narrative includes a section in which Mark passes on the experiences of others from a wide variety of walks of life and occupations, all sharing their views on how feel, connection and softness apply to their respective professions. Those interviewed for this special section include a musician who has written and performed several number one country music hits, a highly decorated helicopter pilot, a movie actor, a college professor, a master carpenter, an artist, and numerous others. What the reader learns by example is how to develop feel, relaxation, connection, and softness in both horse and rider. The methods and techniques Mark demonstrated have been gleaned from decades of work with horses and horse people, as well as while he trained with world-class martial artists whose lives have been dedicated to developing softness and connection with a partner through feel.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781908809490
Publisher: J A Allen
Publication date: 07/31/2016
Sold by: Bookwire
Format: eBook
Pages: 168
File size: 344 KB

About the Author

Mark Rashid is an internationally acclaimed horse trainer known for his ability to understand the horse's point of view and solve difficult problems with communication rather than force. He began working with horses at age ten, when he met the 'old man', who taught him to work with horses, not against them, and to listen to what the horse is trying to say. Mark's clinics centre on one-on-one work with horse and rider and are immensely popular with people around the world. He is the author of several books - Considering the Horse, A Good Horse is Never a Bad Color; Horses Never Lie; Life Lessons from a Ranch Horse; Horsemanship Through Life; Big Horses, Good Dogs, & Straight Fences; A Life With Horses; Whole Heart, Whole Horse; and his latest, a novel, Out of the Wild. He is based in Colorado.

Table of Contents

Foreword Skip Ewing ix

Preface xi

1 Powerful Softness 1

Softness from the Inside Out Angela Ewing 11

2 The Pull 13

Offering the Inside of Ourselves to Our Horses Shannon Brown 25

3 Internal Softness 33

Thoughts on Connection, Feel, and Softness Michelle Scully 53

4 Initial Contact 59

The Difference Between "Make" and "Help" Walter Josey 73

5 Friction 77

The More You Listen, the More You Hear Lee Cranney 93

6 Working the Edge 101

Cultivating Softness Lasell Jaretzki Bartlett 119

7 Simplicity 121

"Feel" Is a Verb Tim Harvey 131

8 Feel 139

Opening to Softness Crissi McDonald 149

9 Softness 155

Afterword: An Exercise in Softness 167

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