-"Wait, wwait.... I get the work part. Don't you like being touched? You're the touchiest horse I know?!" -"I like To Touch. But people like to touch me" -"Really? What if I stretch out my hand to your shoulder?" -"I'll turn away first, tense the tip of my ears and allow to be touched" -"What if I reach out to your nose?" -"I'll touch you".
-"Ok, cool, let's eat hay together for a second...." -"Whaaaa....." -"Eat." -"OK"
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This is how this training session started. A Dialog. To clarify, the training sessions didn't start with a dialog, it IS a dialog, and this is how it started.
You cannot but continue it, and, with your liberty HorseHumanShip convert this already existing dialog into a dance. Now yes, I do hear often that this "hearing horses speak" feature of my existence isn't built in in everybody the same way, so look for signs. I want you to ground yourself so much you start feeling an imbalance on the horse's hoof through the earth under your feet connecting you to them, and through the air that, if you feel very closely, vibrates with energies that float in it and connect with each other in one or another. You, are an Energy. Or at least getting close. And if you're getting close, you are, at least looking very closely at your horse's nostrils, ears, eyes, muzzle, wrinkles. You are receiving signs of wether it's a happy energy or sad energy, wether they're willing about something or seem "off" and almost speaking to you in another language. Listen. Pretend you know it. And TALK.
-"What if.... ......We dance without me touching you today? Huh?" - I said, still sitting down in the hay pile, which is getting smaller minute by minute, - lifting my whips in such an angle that the lash of the whip 'almost' (but not) touches C's mane. Then comes the intention - "Move."
At first nothing happened, I started wiggling the whip and opened my shoulder angle, as if sending his front half around me. As soon as that simple movement was completed, we continued eating hay. I did my best cuing C without physically touching him in any way, carefully setting up my whips (I'm still not getting up by the way) for cueing and reinforcing of simple, yet light and conscious movements. Every time he succeeded we ate hay right at the same spot. He quickly understood I won't even lift my whips of the ground never mind touch him if he moves his feet in answer to an intention.
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