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LETTER OF THE MONTH:
June 2008
Dear Sylvia, Thank you so much for giving us the 3-part Whispering Way™ 12-Step Total Training System. I just finished Disc 3 and am moved to a place of humility and patience and trust and belief in my horse.
I began riding 6 years ago at the age of 52, leased an older Arabian mare, and got into the sport of endurance, completing 2 50-mile rides on other people's horses. One hundred and six days ago, I bought my own very first horse, an Arabian who turned out to be hotter and spookier than I “bargained” for. He has excellent manners, is sweet, smart and willing. He is light and sensitive with some incredible training on him, with regard to groundwork and dressage-type moves. But he has definite holes in his training with regard to confidence and fears. I would say he has lots of technical skills, but very few emotional skills.
I should have realized, too, that our relationship was one big hole! In my impatience to get to my endurance goals, I did too much too soon and ended up on the ground, badly injured. Someone called him “green.” I said, “He’s 9 years old, how can he be green?!” And I thought, smugly, “I’ve been riding 6 years, how can I be called green?” But yep, he is emotionally green, and green on green made black and blue. (I fell on the cell phone in my back pocket—my butt was black and blue for 4 weeks in the shape of a Nokia 6102!) Funny thing, too, is he knows the one-rein stop and we had practiced it some, but not to where I knew to use it during his spook. If I had, I would not have landed on the ground. Now I have a scar that is healing and itchy. Every time it itches, it’s a reminder to go back to basic training, as I’ve now learned in your videos, even (especially!) when I’m impatient to get to that 50-mile ride!
Anyway, thanks again! I’m going out to be with my horse and practice now! (Oh, one other thing: 2 days after I fell, the clock in my car stopped. Another message about throwing away the watch, taking time to train.)
P.S. Yours is the only horse training video I have ever bought—for various reasons I am not attracted to any of the others as a total system. But I loved your essays and Q&A on your website. Every time I Googled a horse issue like “canter leads” or “spooky,” I ended up on your site. So I wanted your video. You have a refreshingly unique, intuitive, practical, easy-to-understand, and yet eclectic approach.
B. K., MD - Woodside, California
LETTER OF THE MONTH:
June 2008
Hi Sylvia. I've just discovered your web site on the internet: wow! It's so good to read good advice (I'm a vet and in my years of practice I've heard a lot of rubbish) and your methods and resolutions are very easy to understand. Congratulations!
I. H. - Belgium
LETTER OF THE MONTH:
June 2008
Hello, I just received your Whispering Way™ 12-Step Total Training System DVD set and realized I’d now like to have the rest of your products. I really like your training DVDs and am anxious to start my 3-year-old on this program! Thank you!
T. G. - Simi Valley, California
LETTER OF THE MONTH:
June 2008
I have recently purchased your Whispering Way 12-step Total Training System DVD set and have had great success with applying the techniques with my own horses and clients as well. Thank you so much for your enormous contribution to the pursuit of Natural Horsemanship.
P.A. P. - Edgewater, Florida
LETTER OF THE MONTH:
June 2008
Hi, I just want to thank you for showing photo's on your web site of how to build a round pen when the ground is not level. Respectfully,
B. H. N. - York, Pennsylvania
LETTER OF THE MONTH:
June 2008
Your Round Pen Leadership DVD was very helpful, now I'm getting ready to start our 5-year-old paint-that-ain't mare. With gas prices and all so high, your DVD is a big savings over sending her to a trainer. Thank you! [I just ordered your Whispering Way™ 12-Step Total Training System DVD set]
A. M. - Bellevue, Washington
LETTER OF THE MONTH:
June 2008
Dear Sylvia, I love your web site and wanted to thank you for all the help you have given me. Your articles are very informative, and when I need help, I go straight to you. Thanks!
A. B. - Internet
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