KFHInt's video: Hempfling - THE ZEN HORSE

‪‪‪‪Zen in the art of leading a horse. Current ways of ancient tradition. http://www.hempfling.com/ To meet a horse means to meet the chaos. The challenge is to find harmony with the strength of the soul - to renounce all external. That became Klaus´ way. After many studies of natural and ancient cultures Klaus wanted to go deeper into the issue bow shooting, especially in connection with horses. His connection to nature and animals demands and enables a very special approach, similar to the intuitive found by people who are still living in and with nature. It is a similar way of approaching the game like the Bushman, Aborigines, Indians and other natural groups of people.The recurve bow needs practice and a well developed body awareness as well as mind control, since the shooting is intuitive like zen shooting. For mounted archery there are special horse bows. The recurve bow is used for traditional bow shooting (practiced by the well known bow shooters Byron Ferguson, John Schulz, Fred Bear and Ben Pearson) and bare bow shooting. The intuitive shooting is also what we all know from the famous stories and movies about Robin Hood (the latest version with Russel Crowe). Hempfling, with his professional background in communications has shaken up the international horse world. ‪‪‪‪ He works 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. 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. 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 and is known for authentic and effective groundwork according to the horses' nature, often proved and documented with stallions (breeding stallions). He considers the horse's psyche (horse psychology) and communicates via body language with these beautiful creatures. 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 behavior. In the beauty of this nature he developed his principals of the 'first encounter' of human and horse. One of his specialities is the work with difficult and aggressive horses. Hempfling transforms dangerous, nervous, traumatized horses into cooperative companions. They recognize him as their leader, and become willing partners in groundwork and under saddle. A number of main articles on his horse work have recently been published in 'Horses For Life' ‪.‬ Very important for Hempfling is in general to interact in different fields as long as the activities accord to the horses' nature. He is therefore also coaching horse-people from fields like show jumping, baroque and artistic dressage, driving, racing, working equitation, doma vaquera and garotcha. The KFH riding system 'Balanced Weight Riding' starts with thorough groundwork and lunging at liberty, building up the potential for the exercises of the High School Dressage (Haute Ecole), like shoulder-in, Spanish walk, passage, piaffe, half-pass, flying change, which all origin in the horses' natural movements and may be performed at completely loose reins (bareback riding, rein-less and bridle-less riding), 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.