The Sensitive Equine is a service dedicated to help people solve problems related to behavior, vet and farrier visits, herd dynamics/ integration and more, through better horse-care practices. By integrating a horse-first perspective and thinking consensually, we build deeper, richer connection with our horses.
Quiet horsemanship
Thinking consensually whether in regard to movement or care, has enriched and expanded my relationship with my horses. And as a student of the horse, I am guided by what they have to offer. I have been able to build deeper connections with my horses through better care practices, which lead to shared movement together, including riding. Its important to me to let the horses give input into what we are doing and take their own initiative. My approach is a quiet, horse-centered horsemanship, focused on working with what the horse is communicating in order to cultivate well being and safety for everyone.
The only opinion that matters is your horse's opinion
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. I'm an anthropologist by training but a lifelong animal devotee. All of my big decisions are made with my feline and equine herds in mind. I grew up in small close-knit family where I was taught about loving dogs and cats but horses lived as a fantasy. My teacher appeared one day after I turned 50 was going through a break-up. I would find myself pulled over to the same patch of road, watching the same group of horses, talking to a friend on the phone. At one point she asked me if I was in front of that horse pasture again. It was a watershed moment. That herd held a white horse I still hadnt really seen from the road because I was focused on his black friend who seemed to have a broken leg. After a call to the barn I learned that was an old injury (he was okay) a wheel turned, and one random event led to another. And at the same time, to get out of my funk, my mom suggested a meetup with animal-minded people. Why not go and learn about horses? Synchronicity was looking for us. An event at that very barn, one of the horses in the demonstration, was this very gelding. A couple of months later, I became his lessee and a year down that line, I became his 'owner'. Part of my education was in realizing that owning was an inaccurate but common term for our relationship. The closest words I can find to describe our relationship is that of spiritual companionship. His energetic force pulled me in from a place of my own unknowingness, and the rest as they say, is history. His name is Prince by the way.