Mark Rashid Helps You Understand Yourself

To understand your horse Mark Rashid helps you understand yourself first and then gives you insights into the heart and mind of horses.

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Amazing book

Excellent blend of storytelling, life coaching and hands-on advise for improving the relationship between horse and rider. I enjoyed it from start to finish.

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I Read This Book On The Heels...

of Mark Rashid's Whole Heart, Whole Horse, a stunningly impressive and even poetic book about horsemanship--and how it enriches living. Often, one will read such an inspirational book and go immediately to another work by the same author and be disappointed, finding him to be a one-hit wonder. This was not the case here. If anything, Horsemanship Through Life is an even deeper and more enjoyable work. Rashid not only gets to the very heart of horsemanship and everything I have always believed and practiced in working with my own horse, Sassy, he is a very skilled and patient storyteller in the balance. I cannot wait to get to more of Mark's books and read even more of the horsemanship and philosophy of a kindred spirit.

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Injuries, growth, centered energy, respect..HORSES

This book offers a growth experience as Mark Rashid reflects on some of his stumbles and face plants along his journey and how they were a result of going along in his journey instead of traveling. Or, in horse terms, just sitting on a horse versus riding it.

The stories he tells, at first seem to be disparate, unconnected, but by the time you reach the end of the book, and look back, you see how it is all connected. Yesterday I heard the portion where he was describing how the human body has more balance and energetic communication with the horse at a point slightly below the belly button.

Today, searching for youtube videos with Mark Rashid, I stumbled on one where he was giving a talk at what appeared to be one of the Equine Affair type of venues, and he was giving a demonstration of how you put your energy in that spot and showing how much it improved the power with very little effort, and he showed that a muscle has straight strength but how the centered focus of energy had a circular power. And, the various demonstrations done with volunteers from the audience were amazing.

I checked out his website to see what videos he had and hope to buy some in the future with the training methods. I hope some of this centered energy information is in some videos too. Doing it along with the youtube video and with what I heard on this book yesterday, it was an amazing feeling and one I hope to incorporate with horses.

Told with his usual gentle and humble humor, the stories are excellent and, of course, life enhancing.

The old man and Buck are spoken of again, and their portions are much appreciated.

By the time you reach the end of the book, and turn the ideas thread throughout around and consider them, you will find that you've been given some tools to travel through life, and not just go along through life. Or, to ride with and not just sit on the horse.

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Not what I'd hoped for.

This was too heavy on long anecdotes that eventually lead to points that didn't exactly rock my world. After all that anecdotal storytelling, I guess I had hoped the payoff would be bigger and deeper insights. Just not my cup of tea.

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Many lessons to learn

A wonderful book with many life lessons. Worth listening to over and over. Thanks

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Very moving book

Mark Rashid speaks a lot about his experiences with Aikido in this book. He has a lot of good points. If we aren't usually patient, kind and understanding throughout our regular days, why would we expect to be this way when we go out to work with out horses? Very good book. Made me laugh and shead some tears in the end.

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love his philosophical, gentle approach

my first exposure to Mark Rashid. I have been an off-and-on meditator / yoga practitioner so his use of mindfulness, soft eyes focus, Harmony and taking your time really appealed to me.

Life Gems

I think people will get out of this book what speaks most to them at the time they are reading it, so I think it will be a relevant read every time one picks it up (or in this case has a listen). During my first listen, I heard a lot of life gems among the anecdotes: listen more, observe, be aware, do things with integrity, learn from my mistakes rather than repeat them, choose with passion, be committed to the outcome, not fixed/attached to the solution, and it’s ok to believe in myself even if it’s not how others are doing it.

beautiful

I cried a lot, laughed a lot and learned a lot. thank you Mark and Buck