A couple of weeks ago I visited a farm in Pomarance, a small village in the southern part of Pisa province, where they b

The feeling of charging into battle is irreplaceable. In this modern world we can be so far removed from the world of our ancestors... and this...is the reason my heart soars! That feeling of syncing up

Hello community, we want to teach you how to live a day full of passion. When a hoby becomes something else. We talk about love for horses, those beautiful moments that we spend when we ride on horseback.

You think your horse lives a life filled with freedom of choice? In the stable or paddocks that they cannot leave. With herd-mates they did not choose. Having (usually) one source of water given to them.

I am one of those people who tends to become a little sucked into tunnel-vision – I find I am often all work and no play, or all play and no work with my horse. Every now and then something happens, or

During torture, it is often not the pain that breaks someone. It is the despair within knowing that no matter what you do, there is no escaping the pain and inevitability of the next assault on your body

Sharman Horsemanship rant read description

Horse love

The rules are as follows: 7 black & white images that represent an aspect of your life Present one image every day for seven days No people No explanation Nominate someone every day although anyone

Sometimes when I’m feeling frustrated and like I’m just not getting anywhere I’ll go and spend some time with animals. I do this because I know I can’t take my anger with me, I do this because I am absolutely

INSPIRING LOVE

A friend of mine is visiting with her 2 daughters from the Netherlands. These 2 girls are your typical horse crazy 10 and 12 year olds. They go for one riding lesson a week and spend all their spare time

I originally wrote this post here: Do we deserve the forgiveness that our horses (and other animals) offer to us so freely? Probably not. We receive it nonetheless – what we do with it is not always nice

I originally wrote this post here: We’ll never know everything there is to know about any one thing in life – it’s simply not going to happen. When I realised this, I decided that I will never stop learning.

This is a blog post I originally published here: When I first started learning about horsemanship I got myself quite set in thinking that there was only one way to work with horses, and that was the right

Reblogging the original blog I wrote which you can read here: When I first started learning about horsemanship with my first horse, I did not ever want to do anything that may have potentially led to him