The book · First edition
Communicate With
Your Horse.
Simple principles for being understood by your horse. A field-tested guide built on the nervous system, not gadgets or force. By Rynhardt Erasmus.
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- Every discipline
- Written in the bush, proven on ordinary yards
Why this book
Your horse is already talking.
This is how you listen.
Most training problems are not disobedience. They are a conversation that broke down: tension, confusion or fear that never got answered.
Written from years of guiding horses among lions, elephants and black rhino, and proven with horses carrying trauma, aggression and mistrust, the book turns it into principles any owner can use. Not a method to memorise. A way of seeing.
“Whenever you are in the presence of your horse, you are essentially communicating, whether it is your intention or not.”
Inside the book
Two dimensions,
one willing horse.
Part one
The psychological dimension
Meet the horse as he actually experiences the world, and change what you ask, and how.
- Empathy & Umwelt
- Intentions
- Attention
- Goals
- Embracing struggle
- Creativity
Part two
The physical dimension
Turn feel into a language of pressure, release and timing your horse can trust.
- Softness
- Confidence
- Release
- Rest & digest
- Control & influence
- Directional
- Energy
The result
A state of flow
When the two come together, resistance fades and the work becomes a conversation you both enjoy. Nothing mystical: two nervous systems in an optimal state.
Who it’s for
Written for the horse
in front of you.
Owners and riders
Especially anyone working through fear, tension or a horse that has shut down, and wanting a calmer, more willing partner.
Coaches and professionals
A clear framework to explain why the good stuff works, and something to hand your clients as homework between sessions.
Every discipline
Dressage to trail, groundwork to liberty. The principles sit underneath the discipline, not beside it.
The author
Rynhardt “Ray” Erasmus
Big Five safari guide, trainer and farrier, working from Wilderness on the Garden Route. Out of years where a horse’s calm could be the difference between a good day and a dangerous one, he built a way of communicating that starts with the nervous system.
Bring calm and clarity
to every ride.
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