The first Permaculture Design course at our center is finishing today. The participants are showing amazing creativity in designing gardens with natural fences, chicken coups, flowers, food trees and vegetable beds to the benefits of the villagers. Students learn to measure the height of the horizon, number of sun hours, size of shades, distance between…
On the 17th of September two new horses, Ayiti & Kadoo, joined our herd. On this page you can follow their lives and liberation. Liberation comes in many forms such as liberation from fear, anger, hunger and disease. Ayiti is a young mare of around 7 years and she is the mother of Kadoo who was…
I am exited to announce that Anita and Caroline, both Eponaquest® Instructors, will host the first EPONA workshop “The Secrets of the Wild Horses” at our Eco Center in February 2018! A few years ago I read a few of Linda Kohanov’s books and found them fascinating. Right after reading “The Way of The Horse”…
I have never really been into cricket. It looked like a lot of waiting around for not very much exciting to happen. On the other hand, I enjoyed tennis at school, and a few years ago I even took a refresher course for fun. The effect is, although I can tell the difference between someone…
Fifty, Fit and Fantastic? Starting the new year, I realized I am going into my fiftieth year and I had to make some new decisions to be better fit for riding. The first one was to shred some weight that had sneaked on in 2016 and the second was to once again exercise my riding…
This month’s blog is from Isa who is a working student at Stina’s center in St. Vincent. “I’ve been in contact with horses for my whole life. I’ve always been passionate, loving, and willing to do good in general and even better with horses. I’ve been riding, training, grooming them for such a long time…
Being a working student or apprentice here at our Academy is a life changing experience. In this week’s blog you will hear more from my current apprentice Jonna. If you have a solid background with horses, we have a couple of apprentice positions here in St. Vincent for 2016. I will have a liberty training…
There is a lot of talk in the horse world about leadership: What leadership is, who is the leader, if there is leadership in a horse herd, how to be a leader, leadership styles and if there should be a leader at all. I find this discussion very interesting and here is my take on…
I am happy to announce that I will do a clinic at Marjam’s Ranch, close to Gardermoen in Norway the 26th and 27th of September. Marjam got in touch with me and was looking for ways to improve the connection with her horse. We talked for a while on FB and email and decided to do…