The 11 years old PRE stallion Harmón was participating in the September programme 2009. The owner, who had done her very best to help him and treated him very gently and soft, had not been able to ...
The 11 years old PRE stallion Harmón was participating in the September programme 2009. The owner, who had done her very best to help him and treated him very gently and soft, had not been able to really heal the deep emotional wounds this stallion suffered because of wrong treatment, and she still had many problems with dominance and riding because of the his resistance. Harmón turned out to have major traumas and was extremely depressed, which the course participants could also see in the working sessions they experienced with him and Klaus.
Harmón is a very talented horse with an extraordinarily spiritual character but his spirit was broken, so after the course Klaus kept him at the school farm to give him a thorough therapy and a complete new guidance to support all the qualities he has. After something like 10 sessions where the main issue was to bring the stallion out of his depression and to resolve his resistance towards people, Klaus is in this clip walking with the stallion on the soft hills of the island and we show some impressions from the first session of real encouraging lunging work where the stallion can really present and show himself, and become a totally new understanding of his authentic balance and posture.
Natasha and I agreed that it would be worth a try to transmit the huge fascination radiating from this horse, from this couple and from the drama of this horses history. It has been incredible to see his liberation take place, which is clearly to see in these pictures, and it is so fascinating how this monument of a horse becomes at the same time more disciplined and more independent and free it is like the togetherness with Klaus is in a special way supporting his wildness but allowing Klaus to handle and control him with the finest means and that makes this stallion even more beautiful. From time to time we have used Klaus music for our videos this time you will for the first time also hear him sing on YouTube.
The following text is from Klaus web-site www.hempfling.com, where you will find more information about his work:
Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling, with his professional background in communications has shaken up the international horse world. He is at the forefront of new ideas on working and interacting with horses. The basis of his work is consideration for the horse's psyche, communication via a body language that is understood by the horse and interaction with these powerful, beautiful, dignified creatures in accordance with nature. The development of the rider's "presence" and an orientation to holistic principles is integral to this work. Klaus' first book, "Dancing with Horses" (translated into more than 10 languages), met with overwhelming international success; thousands of spectators have witnessed a way of interacting with horses that made the horses the teachers, the bearers of mysteries, whose proximity could transform human lives.
Klaus has the ability to "know" a horse within a few seconds and within a few minutes of the first meeting, he establishes a relationship so firmly that anything after that is completely based on trust. In his Borderline Demonstrations he transforms dangerous, nervous, traumatized, any kind of horse into cooperative companions. They recognize him as their leader, and become willing partners in groundwork and under saddle.
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What type of horse is Harmon? Does anyone know? I have read the latest book--the one with the 26 "classifications" of horses--but I have not nearly yet mastered distinguishing one from the other.
Klaus told me he is a very rare mixture of The King and Pegasus. That is also the source of his enormous power and strong spiritual connection. The King is so resolute - met with insufficient understanding from humans he will get aggressive, whereas Pegasus dies inside. It was exactly like that with Harmón on one hand aggression and dominance, on the other hand resignation and depression. That´s also why I found this case so spectacular as Klaus had to reconnect and heal these two extremes.
Hm.. "better" isn't the word, when comparing two horsemen : I totally prefer Hempfling to Parelli, too, but their methods are rather different than better/worse. Parelli's method is for the humans who like to have steps, levels, precise exercises; something quite scholarly. When speaking of Parelli we really speak of "method"; whereas with Hempfling, we can speak of "language" from the very first step. ^^ But one isn't "better" than the other, in my opinion.
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