EP 35: Linda Tellington-Jones and Robyn Hood | A New Approach to Horses

And the whole idea of intention, too, we should maybe talk about that a little bit because we talk about that in our horsemanship and in our training.

We talk about that we should convey a clear intent to our horse or that we should know, you know, have a clear goal, a clear goal.

Well, and go to our courses with

intention, like with gratitude or whatever sort of things that we'd like to bring into that training session emotionally.

But then even taking it as far as like now you're working in the mouth.

So now you need to be like, what kinds of things are you thinking in your mind? Because people don't always think about that.

They think about what they're physically doing and they might be aware of how they're feeling.

But what What could somebody be thinking in their mind when they're working on a horse's trouble spot?

Well, one of the things that I only learned the last couple of years, which changes so much, and I'm going to bring this in, because it's this concept that of intention.

Intention has to do with what we're thinking, right? And one of the things that we talked about for years when we first started teaching this work is don't hold an intention because the intention was, I'm going to fix this horse.

That will not work when you have that.

But the point is, how can we help? Can we find a way by doing one thing or another, when one thing doesn't work, instead of getting louder, harder, faster, what can we do to sit back and make this horse interested in careers and make it okay? When I went through the Feldenkrais training, we were not allowed to use the word energy.

This is 1975, y'all.

In San Francisco, everybody was throwing

bad energy off everybody else.

And Moshe Feldenkrais, as a PhD, there was no definition for energy.

But with the quantum science concept that started in my awareness with the Dancing Bully Masters from Gary Zukav, the realization that everything is energy.

And then what changed my realization for it It's a book.

Are you

all

acquainted with

Greg Brayden?

Yeah.

Well, I love Greg.

Yes.