6/ MAY 2024 THE RIDER
MY SPIN: Horse Riding Is Like Peeling Back an Onion Photo Credit: pixabay.
terms of not rushing rehabilita- tion after surgery. Jim Wofford in Feb/2023
issue of Practical Horseman (title: Lost in Translation) talks about riding horses is like peel- ing back an onion. Though the article is mainly about using your seat bones for riding, I’m liking his description of learn- ing to ride: “Learning to ride is like
By Susan Dahl. According to the website Symbolis-
mandMetaphor: “Onions are a symbol of positivity and healing”. That’s great. I like onions. I’ll take that. I was taking my morning walk with
my very old dog and the thought came to me about improving my artwork is like peeling back an onion. You know... that ole saying about learning new aspects of something only to find more things to learn at a deeper level. It’s a learning process. I had just learned a few new things in
art and was reflecting on it. So of course! I always think about how it impacts my lifelong horse life. I decided to google horse riding and peeling an onion and was surprised to find a couple of results! One article referred to the onion peeling in
peeling an onion by hand. You can peel only one thin layer at a time, it will take you a long time to get to the central part .. and there will be a lot of tears in between. But the sensation your get when you peel off one more layer and understand for the first time something new
about horses and riding is what keeps horsemen coming back for more. And when you get to the essential core, that’s just one horse ... now you must start peeling the layers on a new horse, hoping to get to the cen- tre of him (the horse)_ as well. That means more tears, yes, but more enlightenment as well’. I don’t necessarily agree
about the tears (it does happen sometimes I guess) I was want- ing to focus on the learning process. Being around a horse and learning to do our best in the horse-human relationship involves a steady commitment and action to better ourselves. Putting My Spin on
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About Susan Dahl Susan Dahl, ORHA/NRHA past multiple champion, writer, blogger, author and clinician, retired certified professional horse trainer. Owner of Foun- dation Reining Training Centre in Durham, ON. She special- izes in effective horsemanship, and reining. For more informa- tion on her services: judging, clinics or resale horses, please contact her on facebook, her website:
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