Male Speaker: When you have learnt to see certain patterns of your behavior more clearly with the help of the horse when you've gained clarity, then your horse need new means of expression which signal you new inner stage, your new attitude to the horse. The change inside you requires a trained body so that softness, free play, everything coming from inside you is expressed softly and is free play. This means that you of course need and at least, partly schooled, trained, soft, elastic body which can very precisely convey the body signals coming from within to the horse.
Female Speaker: The two beings to be able to unite in the action of riding, every movement of the horse must be taken over, so to speak by the human body. The rider's abdomen acts here as a soft, gentle buffer. The horse should hardly notice the rider, only then in his flowing movement together, can the rider lead and guide the horse, and give it composure by using precise body language.
In order to meet these great demands, Klaus developed his own system of body movement. It is important for him that the human body at all times consciously or unconsciously moves as a whole. Everything must be soft and elastic and the smallest movement must be part of his whole. This is the only way for the rider to convincingly signal emotions, feelings, and internal life to the horse.
Out of the flowing movement and the sense of the whole, the body almost automatically becomes a clear upright and energetic presence which serves unquestionably as a model for the horse. Once again, slow motion studies of work with horses demonstrate this inner concentration, expresses itself in movement through an exactly balanced straight posture. The movements are parallel, horse and rider dance with each other. Such exact body signals have an immediate effect on the posture of the horse. Make it expressive, concentrate it, and put it in a collective state.
In this duet, the horse imitates the rider, pushes its hindquarters far under its body simply because of the body language of the rider, here a clear tilting of the pelvis. Even difficult exercises which encourage the horse's balance and concentration, such as the so called shoulder-in can be triggered by tiny signals. Without any output influence, the horse learns to trust and feels secure. Beautifully poised, the horse flits freely and unhindered in a collective state.
A person has to put him or herself in a state of clarity and decisiveness, internally and externally, and has to convey this to the horse so that it can ultimately develop freely and independently. A horse prepared this way, when turn inward to go in a complete circle will even gallop in an even tighter spiral. The horse is performing one of the most difficult exercises with playful ease.
The rider's unambiguous body signals, here we can clearly see the shift in body weight leads the horse to change directions correctly, in the so called turn inward position without the use of reins. The rider sits in a precise position on the unsaddled horse's back, always consciously trying to passively absorb the horse's movement.
Male Speaker: And now, something very beautiful will happen. Because I slowly saw things out I used the horse's reactions step by step to develop a relationship to the horse to my inner self, to my body, and to my bout.
These pictures are meant to demonstrate that the aim of leading horses without physical force through inner strength, through spiritual and physical presence can really and truly be achieved.
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