By Kathleen Choe and Bettina Shultz-Jobe Horses are always watching—not necessarily in a vigilant or guarded way—but in the way animals are designed to orient toward relationship, movement, and subtle shifts in their environment. They notice tone; they notice posture;...
Some people train horses. I kiss them. A dear friend of mine occasionally takes one of her horses to clinics with well-known horse clinicians. Later, she’ll share what she observed so we can talk through which parts align with Natural Lifemanship principles and which...
By Bettina Shultz-Jobe, Tim Jobe, Laura McFarland, and Kate Naylor The following is an excerpt from the Natural Lifemanship Manual. Our manual is intended to serve as a resource to support students’ learning as they move through our Fundamentals and...
This week, we opened registration for the NL Intensive. One of the big questions we always get from our community is how the NL Intensive is different from the Fundamentals of NL. The simple answer: Fundamentals teaches you a new way of thinking about your...
For Annie Outside my window, I hear Abilene take three deep horse breaths. She is sunning her mud-caked body at the very spot where Annie stood 48 hours ago experiencing the discomfort of the unknown ailment to which she succumbed hours later. The story of that day...
By Kathleen Choe and Tanner Jobe Recently, Tanner and I had an experience in an Equine Assisted Psychotherapy session where we had planned to do trauma processing with our client using Equine Connected Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EC-EMDR)...
My horse is NOT my therapist. An NL trainer reflects on the claims people make about horses being their therapists and what it means for the horse and human relationship.
Sarah Schlote explores the animal’s ability to consent and discusses the function of a horse’s consent in equine assisted practices.
The Natural Lifemanship approach to building relationships between horses and humans is based on the horse’s choice of connection.
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