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Check out our new Philip Nye page, a really amazing approach to working with a horse.

No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress,
you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying.

Summer 2012: We are hitting the road again to catch up with some superb international trainers. Just back from Mark Rashid. Wow is all I can say. Have a read of the clinic review & see what you think. Really down to earth, humble and had a way of solving problems and issues so empathically with the horse it was fantastic. Incredibly knowledgeable. Then in June we are off to our friends in Kent to meet up with the legends that are Steve & Irena Halfpenny. As usual, check out our facebook page for all updates, clinic reports & insights. Ozzie is going great, we’ve started some cattle work which he loved, so really looking forward to spending a lot of hours in the saddle this summer as well having fun together

HUGE news!! The Irish Horse Welfare Trust free app, ‘Save a horse’ has won second prize in the ‘Best App Ever’ Awards. The app was shortlisted from over 7,240 app nominations. We are incredibly honoured. You can down the app for free for iPhone and Android. Please support the wonderful work the IHWT do by donating through their website: www.ihwt.ie

If you are passionate about something, pursue it, no matter what anyone else thinks. That’s how dreams are achieved. It’s often hard to tell just how close you are to success. Never let success get to your head, and never let failure get to your heart.

Welcome to Irish Natural Horsemanship 2012

Irish Natural Horsemanship was founded in 2003 to establish a community of people in Ireland who would like to learn more about training horses of all types, ages and disciplines. We now offer clinics and getogethers of various types including treks and mini-camps in Ireland with leading national and international trainers, and maintain a register of approved horse trainers based around the country. Our trainers have undergone a rigorous assessment procedures, and are talented and experienced natural horse people, available for private lessons and horse training help. We have developed a series of iPhone, iPad and Android apps to help you with your horsemanship at www.greyhorseapps.com. We also have our general forum where you can discuss all aspects of horse training. If you have any questions, need help or advice, drop us an email at any stage. If we can’t help you directly we might know of someone who can.

“Horses aren’t lazy and they’re not greedy and they’re not jealous and they’re not spiteful, they’re not hateful. They’re not that way. But the human can sometimes only describe a horse in the way that they view other human beings.” Buck Brannaman

“There is no way that the horse will ever try to take advantage of you. It’s as honest and as truthful as anything you could ever work with. It has no ego that gets in its way. It has no pride that gets in its way. It doesn’t know what win or lose is. Those are the four things that get in the human’s way. All the horse is trying to do is to survive; it’s trying to make it. So I try to work with it like it was me…………just like I hope it would work with me.” Ray Hunt

“Horses are very sensitive animals. They have the sensitivity to be able to feel the weight of a fly. You folks who have been around horses know that because you put flyspray on them in the summer time……….and yet when you ride them, you ride them like they don’t have any feeling. You ride them with pulleys and cables, chains, wires, tie-downs and martingales. Why?” Ray Hunt

“When you realise how much you can do with so little, your life will change.” Elaine Heney

Irish Horsemanship is strongly against using GM in Ireland – a disaster waiting to happen.