Part of the reason for founding Sleipnir’s Wisdom LLC came from my experiences travelling the Australian Outback for 2 years, primarily alone, in 2002-2003. It was during this time, working with horses in multiple ways, that I came to further appreciate how important they are as teachers for humanity, and that how we treat them is how we treat ourselves in many ways. It is only when we make their life better, as is the case for all rescue animals, that we make our own life, and the lives of those around us, better.
My Australian Outback walkabout, and subsequent awakening, also came to help me appreciate the critical important of Nature’s teaching to the quality of our own life and how much there was to learn from the natural world. Reflecting my desire to give the natural world a voice, I wrote a multi-award winning book, entitled Walkabout to Wisdom – Awakening to Nature’s Teaching in the Australian Outback, in which I share the wisdom I received during this journey. I am reminded of much of this wisdom each time I work with a horse, using whichever touch or role is most appropriate to their situation, as it always reconnects me to the essence of the natural world.
As has been said across multiple cultures on multiple continents down through the ages, ‘there is nothing like the outside of a horse for the inside of a man’. It is this sentiment I hope the work of Sleipnir’s Wisdom LLC can enhance into the future… for the benefit of both the horse and humanity.
