Lessons from Nelipot Cottage https://www.nelipotcottage.com/ because listening to our horses makes us into better humans Tue, 01 Oct 2024 22:12:10 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://i0.wp.com/www.nelipotcottage.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cropped-img_2591.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Lessons from Nelipot Cottage https://www.nelipotcottage.com/ 32 32 107014877 Where did I learn my stuff… https://www.nelipotcottage.com/where-did-i-learn-my-stuff/ https://www.nelipotcottage.com/where-did-i-learn-my-stuff/#respond Tue, 01 Oct 2024 22:12:06 +0000 https://www.nelipotcottage.com/?p=3777 or who are my trainers? I was born loving horses. I don’t know where it came from; I was born into a completely non-horsey family but as soon as I knew what a horse as I was obsessed. My mother eventually succumbed to relentless pressure and got me some lessons at our local riding stables. The … Continue reading Where did I learn my stuff…

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]]> https://www.nelipotcottage.com/where-did-i-learn-my-stuff/feed/ 0 3777 What exactly is Equine Touch? https://www.nelipotcottage.com/what-exactly-is-equine-touch/ https://www.nelipotcottage.com/what-exactly-is-equine-touch/#respond Fri, 23 Aug 2024 22:15:55 +0000 https://www.nelipotcottage.com/?p=3767 Equine TouchTM is a gentle, non-invasive hands-on system of bodywork, that addresses the whole horse with an organised series of unique, subtle yet extremely powerful series of moves. It is a unique modality using a distinctive, three-part move that focuses on the soft tissue with the practitioner working with (not on) the horse both on a … Continue reading What exactly is Equine Touch?

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]]> https://www.nelipotcottage.com/what-exactly-is-equine-touch/feed/ 0 3767 Dust in My Mouth- Plodding Along on the Gaucho Derby https://www.nelipotcottage.com/dust-in-my-mouth-plodding-along-on-the-gaucho-derby/ https://www.nelipotcottage.com/dust-in-my-mouth-plodding-along-on-the-gaucho-derby/#respond Fri, 22 Mar 2024 08:37:43 +0000 https://www.nelipotcottage.com/?p=3678 In the beginning Duncan and I first met riding across Mongolia. When I say riding across, we rode the length and breadth of Mongolia, 3,600km over 3 months, with the Blue Wolf Totem crew, raising money for the Veloo Foundation and the Children of the Peak Sanctuary Kindergarten. You learn a lot about a place, … Continue reading Dust in My Mouth- Plodding Along on the Gaucho Derby

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]]> https://www.nelipotcottage.com/dust-in-my-mouth-plodding-along-on-the-gaucho-derby/feed/ 0 3678 Does your Horse Need Warm Water in Winter ? https://www.nelipotcottage.com/does-your-horse-need-warm-water-in-winter/ https://www.nelipotcottage.com/does-your-horse-need-warm-water-in-winter/#respond Sat, 18 Nov 2023 16:17:42 +0000 https://www.nelipotcottage.com/?p=3662 It has been a tense couple of days in Nelipot land. Never good to finish your first operation of the day and then find a few missed calls on your phone, including the yard owner, friend and vet practice office. Poor Cal was very subdued, with his head right down, and didn’t want to move. … Continue reading Does your Horse Need Warm Water in Winter ?

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]]> https://www.nelipotcottage.com/does-your-horse-need-warm-water-in-winter/feed/ 0 3662 Energy follows Thought https://www.nelipotcottage.com/energy-follows-thought/ https://www.nelipotcottage.com/energy-follows-thought/#respond Mon, 24 Apr 2023 21:40:06 +0000 https://www.nelipotcottage.com/?p=3641 And as humans we often have only so much energy. And only so much thought. Since Rocky went over the rainbow, Cal has become my main horse again. I had forgotten how deep and meaningful that relationship with a single horse can be. We two are back to living the caballero legend, like a knight … Continue reading Energy follows Thought

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]]> https://www.nelipotcottage.com/energy-follows-thought/feed/ 0 3641 The Opposite of Imposter Syndrome https://www.nelipotcottage.com/expert-syndrome/ https://www.nelipotcottage.com/expert-syndrome/#respond Sun, 15 Jan 2023 19:32:04 +0000 https://www.nelipotcottage.com/?p=3611 There has been a lot of chat this past year about imposter syndrome. It has now become completely acceptable and even laudable for leaders in their field to express their inner voices of doubt and lack of self-worth. Every successful public persona seems to have this missionary zeal to tell us that they too suffered from crippling fear and self-doubt at some stage in their journey. While this is a perennial problem that I am sure all reasonable, non-psychotic humans grapple with, in my experience, much more day to day damage is done by those with non imposter aka expert syndrome.

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]]> https://www.nelipotcottage.com/expert-syndrome/feed/ 0 3611 Fifty Kilometres a Day on Horseback https://www.nelipotcottage.com/fifty-kilometres-a-day-on-horseback/ https://www.nelipotcottage.com/fifty-kilometres-a-day-on-horseback/#respond Thu, 17 Nov 2022 01:51:34 +0000 https://www.nelipotcottage.com/?p=3522 Fifty kilometres a day on horseback sounds feasible, doesn’t it? Fifty kilometres s day on horse back sounds achievable, simple, steady. Fifty kilometres a day on horseback is the perfect way to traverse a whole country, especially one of the world’s largest countries. When a distance seems improbable, impossible even, we just break it down, … Continue reading Fifty Kilometres a Day on Horseback

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]]> https://www.nelipotcottage.com/fifty-kilometres-a-day-on-horseback/feed/ 0 3522 Just One Thing… https://www.nelipotcottage.com/just-one-thing/ https://www.nelipotcottage.com/just-one-thing/#respond Tue, 27 Sep 2022 18:41:04 +0000 https://www.nelipotcottage.com/?p=3475 All of us who have had the (mis) fortune to deal with a tricky horse would give our eye teeth for there to be just one thing that solves the problem and makes both of our lives easier. If I could just find the one thing that will flick the switch and change the situation. … Continue reading Just One Thing…

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]]> https://www.nelipotcottage.com/just-one-thing/feed/ 0 3475 Herbermann’s treatise on “Equestrian Ideals”- essential reading https://www.nelipotcottage.com/herbermann-equestrian-ideals/ https://www.nelipotcottage.com/herbermann-equestrian-ideals/#respond Sat, 24 Sep 2022 08:37:17 +0000 https://www.nelipotcottage.com/?p=3474 I have taken the liberty of copying this article verbatim- because I believe that it should be available to be read by all. Copyright: Erik F Herbermann, 2003 This article presents a general guideline of concepts and observations aimed at exploring the diverse aspects involved in charting our equestrian ideals, the guideposts by which we … Continue reading Herbermann’s treatise on “Equestrian Ideals”- essential reading

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]]> https://www.nelipotcottage.com/herbermann-equestrian-ideals/feed/ 0 3474 May you live in interesting times https://www.nelipotcottage.com/may-you-live-in-interesting-times/ https://www.nelipotcottage.com/may-you-live-in-interesting-times/#respond Sat, 24 Sep 2022 06:50:09 +0000 http://www.nelipotcottage.com/?p=3066 In 1966 Robert F. Kennedy delivered a speech that included the words There is a Chinese curse which says “May you live in interesting times.” Like it or not, we live in interesting times. They are times of danger and uncertainty; but they are also the most creative of any time in the history of … Continue reading May you live in interesting times

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