Hempfling - Rhythm is Painted Time - Body-Awareness Basics

To be able to dance with a horse you need to learn about rhythm, dance and emotional expression. Astonishing results in drumming and moving, with a group of people without musical background and in different ages, after only some hours. http://www.hempfling.com
This video describes less known but very important parts of the horse therapist Klaus Ferdinand Hempflings work.
Hempfling, with his professional background in communications has shaken up the international horse world. He is working with these powerful, dignified creatures in accordance with nature. The development of the rider's "presence" and an orientation to holistic principles is integral to this work. Therefore he created different fundamental teaching and perception fields Body Awareness, Spiritual Awareness etc.
Klaus likes very much to play different kinds of drums like drum kit, congas, jembe (known from African Drumming), bongos, and other native drums.
On the little Danish island where he lives you will sometimes here singing or drumming and percussion in the streets near his house then you know: Klaus is at home.
Some might ask what this has to do with the horses? Well, you could maybe say Not a lot, but then again, being with the horses has to do with living here and now, not being occupied with the past or worrying about the future, and to achieve that, the soul need to express itself to give space for positive energies.
The ability to feel, sense and follow a rhythm is also essential for an authentic and integer appearance, and that is what the horses believe in and trust.
Hempflings drumming style is his very own but it is also inspired by drum players and percussionists like Rodolfo Pachecho (Gypsy Kings), Nick Mason (Pink Floyd), Thomas Lang, Terry Bozzio, Billy Cobham, Safri Duo and other drum legends.
Klaus plays many instruments but especially the acoustic guitar is really like a part of him. He has his very own authentic style (fingerstyle) which he developed as a street musician in his youth, where he very early stood on his own and had to make a living.
Hempfling has found inspiration by many of the great guitar players and musicians from the 60ies and 70ies, like for example Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits a band of which even Jon Bon Jovi was great fan), Eric Clapton who formed the first real super group Cream, Jimmi Hendrix, Paul Simon who was the leading musician in Simon & Garfunkel, Santana and Robert Johnson. In the past years Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling developed a more and more original musical expression with much improvisation and sometimes an unplugged touch. His style is very much based on different kinds of natural and native music styles represented by for example Scandinavian and sami musicians like the singer Mari Boine, the composer and saxophone player Jan Garbarek and the northern joiking. Also music with Irish and Celtic roots as for instance Loreena McKennit and many of the bands playing Irish Folk music have been in his repertoire of collecting creative inputs. His way of not regarding the rules of music theory sometimes make you think of people like Keith Jarret or the Fusion Jazz .
Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling (The Horse Seeks Me) is touching equestrians worldwide, with response in fields like natural horsemanship, horse whispering, classical and freestyle dressage, equestrian sports, western riding, endurance, eventing and horse riding in general. He is at the forefront on working and interacting with horses. His first book, 'Dancing with Horses' met with overwhelming success, especially in pleasure riding and natural riding.
Klaus lived with wild horses in wilderness to observe their animal language and natural horse behaviour. In the beauty of this nature he developed his principals of the first encounter of human and horse.
Very important for Hempfling is in general to interact in different fields as long as the activities accord to the horses nature.
One may say that he is meanwhile one of the leading names in the issue animal and especially horse welfare and horse passion and love, as well as horses in wildlife, roots in nature and animal communication. The German TV programme called him one of the most important horse whisperer of the world.

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[amiryeti]

Is this class for women only?

[nature2promotion]

@amiryeti Without question no - there are in average around 20% men in Klaus' courses according to the general relation in the horse world.

[jenniferjoymiddleton]

I want to take this in!

[keyses]

Looks fun to me so it must be good

[MouseHoleFarm]

I think tai chi and qi gong exercise are extremely helpful to equestrians because it teaches us to slow our rhythm to align with the much slower natural rhythm of the horse...allowing us to connect and communicate with the horse through energy flow. See YouTube videos for Riding with Chi and Riding with Chi - Rooting Demonstration if you are interested.

[WCVDGermany]

Nice to see ... But that does not get off the image of a guru ... I wish ... That he's working horses and riding further ... sorry!

[PriscaSinclair]

DJBelbe, how do you know that no one even bothers to check if the pupil has any notion of "rhythm"? Mr Hempfling is a Master. If you knew this, it is not likely you would question his methods. The only thing I find to be absurd is that someone would criticize that which they cannot even spell.

[DJBelbe]

it's quite absurd to see so much yelling around riding schools concerning rythm when noone ever bothers to check if the pupil has any notion of rytmh himself! how can we ask of the horse that wich we don't master ourselves? how can we hope to be in harmony with them? People make fun of my awkward attemps to do most things both left and right handed, but then they dare complain that their horse is stiff on one side... aren't they as well??

[EQITOPIA]

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By "the whole body experience", I mean the movement, the dance, the rhythm, the music, the drumming, the beat, the sounds, the timing, the musicians, the breathing, the interaction between the people, the energy, the life, the interconnection, the expression, the happiness, the timelessness, the creativity, the learning, the development, the precision, and of course, how we were all "just being" in the moment of "now"... JO

[EQITOPIA]

By watching this, for me it feels very nice to be "immersed" again in the sights and sounds of the class, like I want to jump into the screen and be back there, right now, ha ha!

I think for anyone watching this, perhaps they will be able to feel the "whole body experience" themselves, as we did at the time - just by looking at it.

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[AnnCrago]

....Very Cool.....Just move and breathe....excellent !!!!