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All right, all [Music] right. Two very curious about cameras. No, don't eat the camera. Thank you. Very curious about the cameras. Very curious about me. So we've pressed quite a bit in one day. She was part of the Wu way of wild horses, way of Mustangs class this morning, and work on a little animal communication and connection with her, with uh, students in class.
I kind of empathize with Freya, understanding how much change she's been through since September of '24, being pulled off the range as a 2-year-old. He lived life as a normal life on a wild horse range of 36,000 acres, and then one day her world changed, and we can't undo that. So we just make the best of what we have moving forward, and we give her best chance possible through gentling and training, and also through empathy and understanding. Now, there's a huge difference between empathy and sympathy. Believe in sorry horses are feeling sorry for horses. I can empathize with them. I can understand pretty well what they've been through, what they're going through, what they're pondering.
Now she's a very curious horse, so she's out holding and into another form of holding, but at least here, once we get her gentle a little bit, we'll turn her out and she can run and play with the herd and be more and more of a horse. Us as humans, we have the mental, emotional, physical, spiritual, energetic capabilities of being the horse more than the horse being us. The best way you can build trust is in reinforcing a feeling of safety, not learned helplessness. So many other trainers kind of instill a learned helplessness; that's not what we want in a wild horse. We don't want to maintain hundreds of years of natural select. She's releasing, which is good. We want to maintain everything that we love about wild horses and then just help them acclimate, not desensitize. Boy, that's another boy that don't get me--we help them acclimate, just like if we were in France or another country that we don't know the language, we don't know the culture, the customs, all that. We don't really desensitize to living in France; we acclimate to it over time, start to understand the language enough to order a meal off the menu, enough to get from point A to point B, and then if we have a good helper or two to really get fluent in French or whatever language, then we get to understand more their cuisine, culture, their ways. So it's the same with a wild horse coming into a domestic environment. I want them to give up anything that they are; preserve their essence and actually help grow their essence, all the while understanding basic training that she will be trained to be good with a farrier, good with a vet, good with groomer, other people, other horses—it's all of the above.
This is definitely her favorite spot. I think it's because other horses are next door, so she gets reassurance. AR is coming up off the camera. It's fun, really only about an arm's length away. She's backing up a little bit, so I'll walk away. She's feeling a little uncomfortable. What I want to do is increase that distance, but they--no, yeah, I hear you, a little uncomfortable, and then what you get rewarded with is a step or two towards you. Thank you. Thank you. Could be a big release, then you, big reward off my hand; it's to a neutral location, not at her face or at her body, and then we can kind of meet in the middle when she's ready. Can't overemphasize, or I think it's in any relationship building, side by side, meet in the middle, get more than you take, acknowledge the little things. Yeah, I know she's not as comfortable with right eye; that is ginormous. Oh, thinking about it, maybe I go over here. This is where you can get help from the herd. Now I'm interacting with her and other horses. She's going to walk off, and that's okay. She's going to be a happy mare. I'm able to—hi, AR—you. It's interesting; now she put herself with me on her right side. Just go walk a little bit. Maybe part of a horse's communication is you always hear, "move their feet, on their feet, on their mind." Well, honestly, what I found is it's more of a dance and ownership or dominance. She'll take a step, maybe I'll take two steps. For e, you, for a—not that I said a lot while working with horses. I like to be at least a little more interactive with him, but there are times it is nice to sit down, and she'll come by and take a sniff of the mounting block, gets more used to my scent, for for, and she touched me and walked away. Want to linger? Couple things I want to go through, and that's a big win there. Do with that, but when I'm doing breath, deep breath, all the way down into your dihr—I actually like to say between your hip bones and your tailbone—want to breathe that deep; it's also where you're going to center and down, so brings a very um calming and confident energy to the conversation, and a quiet confidence adds up to safety for the horse, and when the horse is feeling safe, they can begin to trust. Now she can explore my hand; I just held it there; I'm not touching her; she's touching me. Anyhow, the breath work, I'll I'll share some supplemental information on chi gong breathing, and the first stance you learn when you're studying chi gong is the horse stance, basically how you look. If your right eye—oh, you want the camera moved over there? Okay. She's very curious, very—there we go. Try again. Oh, look at that, look at that. Thank you. New smells to her, so she'll raise her lip up; she's imprinting my scents on her. This is obsessed with the c—are are you are you a movie star in the making? Are you? Yeah. So what I always have said is your goal is to become touchable. You want to be interesting enough, calm enough, safe enough, confident enough that they want to come up and touch you, and sometimes it works, sometimes it almost works—for sniff my hand, nibble on it a couple of times. So now I can introduce M there. Thank you. I'm not touching her; she's touching me. Spending time side by side together. Other horses are right next door to supply support. We do have another winter storm rolling in, so probably won't do a video tomorrow. We'll see. Probably do a makeup video on Thursday. We'll do—you're beautiful.