Medicine & Horses Rides Again!--Fall 2007

Well, in truth, the lesson horses are looking forward to it--especially since we try to employ ones that aren't leased or even ridden. There are some cuuuuuute new horses to work with, as well as our good old horse network of Dream, Madison, and Dollar.

I am personally thrilled to be teaching again. Yippee ki O ki AY! This will be our best course yet--a full complement of students, a new EAGALA-trained assistant who is also an endurance and ride&tie athlete, and a nurse from Webb. And Lucia, our horse vet who teaches the most popular part of the course, seems poised to come to all the classes! Someday she can tell the r-r-r-rest of the story of how she wr-wr-wr-wrested this time away from the lab, but that's her tale to tell. Or you can wait for the movie version.

Over the summer I had several inquiries from equine assisted psychotherapy and equine experiential learning practitioners who want to start M&H programs in their areas--British Columbia, Texas, George Washington U. The "Manual of Medicine & Horsemanship" is almost done--at least to the throw-it-over-the-wall-to-the-copyeditor stage, and I the woman from BC is buying an advance copy. So the M&H Appleseed program is getting planted, starting to germinate.

The students will be required to blog again once IT gets the accounts set up, so watch this space for weekly stories.