Hippoh Foundation

10/25/2021

Join me on the Mindful Riders page and sign-up for the January 2022 6-week Introduction to Mindful Awareness course online. We'll explore many facets of mindfulness meditation over the six weeks, including awareness of breath, body, difficult emotions, thoughts, sounds, and more! Registration is now open on Eventbrite. Please share!

6-Week SIT Course, Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation and Embodied Awareness, beginning January 3rd 2022.

12/26/2020

Interested in learning and practicing mindfulness meditation? Come to an information session online Monday Dec 28th, and join our forming Mindful Riders group January 4th for an ongoing practice community! All backgrounds and experience levels are welcome. New to mindfulness? Perfect! Nervous about meditating? Awesome - come learn and practice in a wholly supportive environment and try it out! See the link below. No cost to attend but please register so the meeting information can be sent securely.

Interested in mindfulness meditation but not sure what to expect? Nervous about starting a class but have a few questions first?

06/01/2020

First class starts next Sunday 9am PST!

Welcome to the Inspiritus Equine University educational horse health online seminar series! A series of 6 one-hour classes addressing recognizing the horse in pain, understanding the nervous system and how pain relates to equine behavior, topline syndrome and common poll, back, and sacroiliac disord...

05/09/2020

You've been waiting patiently, and it's nearly here. 6-class series with so much information packed in! Updated/current research and references, new photos and cases, refined and expanded! I've presented on similar topics in meetings all around the globe, and it's time to release the information to all who need it! (and trust me, you do, lol!). Registration and class fee information coming soon, we're working on setting a good day/time to make the info most accessible to everyone. Recordings will be available for 3 days post session for those who miss. Feel free to share! I can't wait to see you all and have great presentations and discussions!

09/21/2017

Leif Törnblad – on training and judging Posted on September 21, 2017 by horsemagazine The Danish judge, Leif Törnblad is one of the most experienced and respected five-star judges in the world, but he is also in his day-to-day life a rider, and a trainer, and now he has developed a teaching format t...

09/11/2017

Every rider, trainer and owner that cares about not damaging their horse needs to see the highly anticipated follow up to Equitopia's first "Biomechanics of ...

09/07/2017

What did La Guérinière tell us about horses in the 1750's that we still should follow today?
Leading German performance horse vet Professor Stadler says -“This is no modern insight. La Guérinière in the eighteenth century asserted that ‘sadly even quite good horses can suffer bone and tendon injuries – impatient ‘trainers’ attempt to school them too quickly and destroy them.’ Again: ‘Strength and natural perfection are lost and disappear through over-working and exhaustion with too strenuous and prolonged exercise. The horse will develop joint and tendon sheath swelling, spavin and other diseases.’”
http://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/whos-who/de-la-gueriniere-francois-robichon/

04/11/2017

Research sheds new light on a divisive training technique.

03/04/2017

Uta Gräf of Germany that this exercise is an important part of training not just for young horses or dressage horses, but for all horses.