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Zen Mind, Zen Horse The Science and Spirituality of Working with Horses

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ISBN-10: 1603425659

ISBN-13: 9781603425650

Edition: 2011

Authors: Allan J. Hamilton, Monty Roberts, Robert M. Miller

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Mindful work with horses, says neurosurgeon Allan J. Hamilton, can enlighten the human handler as much as it benefits the horse. Evolving over 30 million years to become the quintessential prey animal, equines have developed acute right-brain survival skills, such as leadership, awareness, empathy, and cooperation. In particular the horse has finely honed abilities to lead, communicate, and connect not with words, but with the vital emotional energy described in the Buddhist tradition as chi. When we learn the language of chi, we become more effective as leaders, more attuned to others, and more joyful as human beings. Zen Mind, Zen Horse begins by examining how the equine and human brains…    
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Book details

List price: $33.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Publication date: 9/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English

Krystina Castella is a professor at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. She is the author of A World of Cake, Pops!, Crazy About Cupcakes, and Discovering Nature's Alphabet, and she has been published in Craft magazine.Allan J. Hamilton, MD, is a Harvard-trained brain surgeon, a renowned horse trainer, a developer of equine-assisted learning programs, and the author of The Scalpel and the Soul,which won a Silver Nautilus Award in 2009. He is professor of neurosurgery at the University of Arizona and a medical script consultant for the hit TV series Grey's Anatomy. He raises Lippizan horses on a small ranch in the outskirts of Arizona.

Monty Roberts has worked with horses for more than fifty years & demonstrated his "join-up" technique & philosophy to worldwide audiences ranging from Queen Elizabeth of England to thousands of corporate executives. He lives with his wife Pat in California on their Flag Is Up Farms.

Foreword
Introduction
Days of Thunder
The Two Sides of Me
Chi & Equus
Grooming as a Tea Ceremony
Searching For Chi
Grooming as an Act of Love
The Magic Dog
Prey, Predator & The Rules of Learning
Patience
Leading the Way
Now & The Ocean Liner
Tiny Bubbles of Chi
Picking Up The Pace
Minding Your Manners
Sending Out & Backing Up
Tending To Horses
Sidepassing & Jumping
Come To Me
From Sack to Saddle
A Leg Up
Stopping & Spooking
Trailering (or not)
Epilogue
Twenty Exercises
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index