Latest article by Steve in the February /March 2015 edition of Horsemanship Magazine ,follow the link to their website http://www.horsemanshipmagazine.co.uk/
The art of being human
"It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end." ~ Ursula Le Guin
Life is a journey and the path it follows twists, and turns, and is full of new vistas and horizons, and sometimes takes us out of our own comfort zones into that place of learning and adventure where real change can take place!
“ Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” ~ Lao Tzu
When I began working with horses I could never have imagined in my wildest dreams the life changing effect they would have on my whole life, not just my time when around them, but the real transformation and change they have brought to my whole life.
Horsemanship at its best starts to happens for the horseman when we begin to remember to be a more natural ‘grounded’ human being learning to be our true selves and starting to trust our own intuition when working with our equine partners. This sounds simple but in reality can take a long period of patience and practice because to do this we must be starting to find peace and happiness and contentment with our lives. We must start to believe in our abilities and ourselves!
"Magic is believing in yourself; if you can do that, you can make anything happen." - Goethe
This change is the beginning; it will start to re-kindle the sensitivities that modern daily life has knocked out of us. Because the rush, the deadlines, the use of technology to communicate, the traumas and set backs and all the other trappings of modern living has taken us far away from being a truly natural human.
So it is perhaps our search for ways of working with horses in a more natural way that leads us along the path to becoming a more natural, sensitive human being again. This journey often includes some time of self-healing and learning to be kind to us. These feelings will enable us to work and help our equine partners and they will help us to
We must work on finding a calm inner peace and try very hard not to raise our emotions when things go wrong with our work with horses, again a pattern emerges what works well with horses works well with our lives in general, the two are the same! The answer is we need first to become a better human to become better horsemen
So our horsemanship really does start to impact on and actually change our lives as a whole for the better! Here are the thoughts of client Sophie Boyle:“I came to realise that I was also allowing my general life experience and those inevitable traumas that life throws our way to influence how I felt. This of course, was impacting on my attitude whilst handling and riding any horse. I would say that having a successful session with Steve impacts on how I feel for the rest of the day. The confidence that is instilled creates a positive attitude, which in turn affects how I interact with my children, family, and my life, all for the better! “
So for some like me the road to better horsemanship becomes part of a wider more important path to spiritual awareness and the horsemanship is the catalyst to start the change.
“ Spiritual awareness or spiritual awakening is the process by which we begin to explore our own being in order to become whole and reunite our spirits with our physical bodies in a commonality of purpose.” ~Greg Lawrence
Here is how client Katey McEndoo puts it: “ I found working this way, of communicating in a more perceptive and spiritual way has really helped me in my work as a teacher, and with my relationships at home with my husband and children. I am a lot happier all round, and a lot more confident, and feel now that I am more than capable of achieving my dreams.'
For a lot of us modern living has often disconnected us from our soul or spirit and reality. To reconnect me must first start to heal ourselves, this is all part of the spiritual journey or awakening, this is the first step learning to be at peace, be content, and learn to love ourselves. As we start to find this peace within ourselves and begin to reconnect with our souls and ground ourselves we begin to be able to work more effectively with our horses (and humans)
Somewhere along my journey I started to question how my methods with horses were working. Some customers began to tell me that I must in some way started a healing process because their horse within a few minutes of being with it had dramatically made a change. I started to think more and more about what was really happening. I began to realise it is all about energy the life force that is within all living beings. I began to read more and more about different forms of energy healing and began to realise that it was my energy that was doing the work with the horses and their owners. It was my energy that was working as a catalyst or a channel for change facilitating the start of a healing process.
I also found that often after working with a challenging horse I would feel quite drained and tired by the experience so started to look at how I could learn to protect my self. I looked further into energy healing methods and realised Reiki was a safe way of healing with energy but without the harmful draining effects. I had at this time become quite physically ill and had some problems with my back and arthritis in my hands and wrists. I went to see my GP and various tests followed and yes I did have arthritis, and also three fractures in my spine, and also a rare autoimmune condition!
I started out with the drugs prescribed by the doctor but some began to realise that they were just masking the symptoms. I radically changed my diet, and started on my Reiki healing journey, I went on a first degree Reiki course and started self-healing on a daily basis. Along with the change in diet this began to make a fantastic difference to my health and within a few months I was drug and pain free!
As my healing journey continued I began to feel better and better and focused on my purpose in life to help and heal. I took my second-degree course in Traditional Japanese Usui Reiki and became qualified as a Practitioner.
“ In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.”~ Thich Nhat Hanh
I am now using Reiki with many of the horses I meet in my work and with some of the owners too, and have treated dogs and other animals. I have found that it has changed the way I work with a new horse and often start with some ‘ healing” sessions before tackling any ground or ridden work with the more “extreme” cases. This often seems to speed up the process of making a change for the better. I am not doing the healing just making it possible for the horse or human to start their self-healing!
So my work has evolved into a new form, part healing, part horsemanship, and much more effective than before. I am currently studying to become a Reiki Master, well and content and still travelling my journey through life and horsemanship and I know that changes will come along the way but that’s the beauty of a journey we never know what exciting find lies around the next corner!
"It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end." ~ Ursula Le Guin
Life is a journey and the path it follows twists, and turns, and is full of new vistas and horizons, and sometimes takes us out of our own comfort zones into that place of learning and adventure where real change can take place!
“ Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” ~ Lao Tzu
When I began working with horses I could never have imagined in my wildest dreams the life changing effect they would have on my whole life, not just my time when around them, but the real transformation and change they have brought to my whole life.
Horsemanship at its best starts to happens for the horseman when we begin to remember to be a more natural ‘grounded’ human being learning to be our true selves and starting to trust our own intuition when working with our equine partners. This sounds simple but in reality can take a long period of patience and practice because to do this we must be starting to find peace and happiness and contentment with our lives. We must start to believe in our abilities and ourselves!
"Magic is believing in yourself; if you can do that, you can make anything happen." - Goethe
This change is the beginning; it will start to re-kindle the sensitivities that modern daily life has knocked out of us. Because the rush, the deadlines, the use of technology to communicate, the traumas and set backs and all the other trappings of modern living has taken us far away from being a truly natural human.
So it is perhaps our search for ways of working with horses in a more natural way that leads us along the path to becoming a more natural, sensitive human being again. This journey often includes some time of self-healing and learning to be kind to us. These feelings will enable us to work and help our equine partners and they will help us to
We must work on finding a calm inner peace and try very hard not to raise our emotions when things go wrong with our work with horses, again a pattern emerges what works well with horses works well with our lives in general, the two are the same! The answer is we need first to become a better human to become better horsemen
So our horsemanship really does start to impact on and actually change our lives as a whole for the better! Here are the thoughts of client Sophie Boyle:“I came to realise that I was also allowing my general life experience and those inevitable traumas that life throws our way to influence how I felt. This of course, was impacting on my attitude whilst handling and riding any horse. I would say that having a successful session with Steve impacts on how I feel for the rest of the day. The confidence that is instilled creates a positive attitude, which in turn affects how I interact with my children, family, and my life, all for the better! “
So for some like me the road to better horsemanship becomes part of a wider more important path to spiritual awareness and the horsemanship is the catalyst to start the change.
“ Spiritual awareness or spiritual awakening is the process by which we begin to explore our own being in order to become whole and reunite our spirits with our physical bodies in a commonality of purpose.” ~Greg Lawrence
Here is how client Katey McEndoo puts it: “ I found working this way, of communicating in a more perceptive and spiritual way has really helped me in my work as a teacher, and with my relationships at home with my husband and children. I am a lot happier all round, and a lot more confident, and feel now that I am more than capable of achieving my dreams.'
For a lot of us modern living has often disconnected us from our soul or spirit and reality. To reconnect me must first start to heal ourselves, this is all part of the spiritual journey or awakening, this is the first step learning to be at peace, be content, and learn to love ourselves. As we start to find this peace within ourselves and begin to reconnect with our souls and ground ourselves we begin to be able to work more effectively with our horses (and humans)
Somewhere along my journey I started to question how my methods with horses were working. Some customers began to tell me that I must in some way started a healing process because their horse within a few minutes of being with it had dramatically made a change. I started to think more and more about what was really happening. I began to realise it is all about energy the life force that is within all living beings. I began to read more and more about different forms of energy healing and began to realise that it was my energy that was doing the work with the horses and their owners. It was my energy that was working as a catalyst or a channel for change facilitating the start of a healing process.
I also found that often after working with a challenging horse I would feel quite drained and tired by the experience so started to look at how I could learn to protect my self. I looked further into energy healing methods and realised Reiki was a safe way of healing with energy but without the harmful draining effects. I had at this time become quite physically ill and had some problems with my back and arthritis in my hands and wrists. I went to see my GP and various tests followed and yes I did have arthritis, and also three fractures in my spine, and also a rare autoimmune condition!
I started out with the drugs prescribed by the doctor but some began to realise that they were just masking the symptoms. I radically changed my diet, and started on my Reiki healing journey, I went on a first degree Reiki course and started self-healing on a daily basis. Along with the change in diet this began to make a fantastic difference to my health and within a few months I was drug and pain free!
As my healing journey continued I began to feel better and better and focused on my purpose in life to help and heal. I took my second-degree course in Traditional Japanese Usui Reiki and became qualified as a Practitioner.
“ In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.”~ Thich Nhat Hanh
I am now using Reiki with many of the horses I meet in my work and with some of the owners too, and have treated dogs and other animals. I have found that it has changed the way I work with a new horse and often start with some ‘ healing” sessions before tackling any ground or ridden work with the more “extreme” cases. This often seems to speed up the process of making a change for the better. I am not doing the healing just making it possible for the horse or human to start their self-healing!
So my work has evolved into a new form, part healing, part horsemanship, and much more effective than before. I am currently studying to become a Reiki Master, well and content and still travelling my journey through life and horsemanship and I know that changes will come along the way but that’s the beauty of a journey we never know what exciting find lies around the next corner!
Latest article by Steve in the August/September edition of Horsemanship Magazine ,follow the link to their website http://www.horsemanshipmagazine.co.uk/
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Here is the Horsemanship Magazine article in the current April / May 2014 edition ,follow the link to their website http://www.horsemanshipmagazine.co.uk/
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Horsemanship Magazine June 2013 cover stars !
Looks like me and Peaches are the cover stars of the June issue of Horsemanship Magazine, and an article about me inside ! Thanks Horsemanship Magazine really appreciate the interest in my work !
Steve Continues to feature in Horse Magazine !
Steve continues to be featured in UK national equestrian magazine " Horse" as part of their expert panel solving readers queries , looking from the natural horsemanship angle. He appears regularly , including the current issue March 2013.
Horse Magazine " I hope I'm helping people and helping horses "-Steve Doherty
Steve Has been selected by UK national equestrian magazine " Horse" to be part of their expert panel solving readers questions , looking from the natural horsemanship angle. He will appear regularly in the magazine from the August 2012 edition which is out now. Thanks to Horse magazine for the opportunity of helping more horses and their owners all over the country.
Western Horse UK Magazine May-June 2012.
See pages 50-51 in the May-June edition of Western Horse UK magazine for an article about Steve Doherty Horsemanship. Many thanks to Western Horse UK for the lovely article and support!
Yorkshire Post article 24th March 2012.
Yorkshire Post coverage of Steve Doherty Horsemanship.
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