What Wild Horses Have to Teach Us with Carolyn Resnick

Here we explore how horses can be true partners as valuable teachers and healers in our journey for self-healing, personal growth, and transformation. They can show us powerful lessons in how to be effective leaders. You'll be surprised by what Resnick reveals about the secrets of how a horse becomes and maintains its leadership of a herd of wild horses. Horses’ extensive language and communication skills are a matter of survival and they do it without words. What makes a good leader in a stallion of a herd of wild horses can be used for human leadership as well. It does not lead by coercion or waging battles. It creates unity, harmony, and respect including the personal space of others. It actually leads from behind and has to do with knowing when to serve the community and when to best serve the individual. She talks of the different ways we need to treat different personalities in horses. A dominant horse has a fear-based attitude so we must earn their trust. A lead mare easily makes connections with other horses. We humans can learn a lot from horses from the non-verbal communication of horses. (hosted by Justine Willis Toms)

 Bio 

Carolyn Resnick is the founder of The Resnick Method of Horsemanship and offers many online courses, clinics, retreats, and certification opportunities that create a magical connection with horses using rituals that are innate to the horse. She is a master horse communicator who grew up with horses and spent three summers of her childhood gradually becoming accepted into a community of wild horses, culminating in her ability to ride a lead mare bareback and without a bridle.

 Carolyn Resnick is the author of:

• Naked Liberty: Memoirs of My Childhood, Guided by Passion, Educated by Wild Horses (Amigo Publications, Inc. 2005).

To learn more about the work of Carolyn Resnick go to www.carolynresnick.com.

 Topics explored in this dialogue include:

• How Carolyn fell in love with horses as a three-year-old child
• How her first horse was a wild one brought off the range that she named “Mustang”
• How Carolyn had an instinct about establishing a relationship with “Mustang” even before she got on his back
• How a wild horse sources a different intelligence from domesticated ones
• How did Ray Hackworth mentor Carolyn in the way to befriend a wild horse
• What is some advice on how can we form a cross-species bond
• What makes a good leader
• How Carolyn used her knowledge of horses to help make peace between two neighbors
• How she began to understand the importance of pecking order in a horse community
• How a horse with a dominant personality comes from a fear-based attitude
• What was Joe Brown’s (aka Lame Deer)advice of meeting an indigenous wisdom elder
• What was her encounter with the revered Hopi spiritual elder Thomas Banyacya

 Host: Justine Willis Toms   Interview Date: 10/18/2022   Program Number: 3781

Music Playlist

Album: Bring the Flavors
Artist: Jack Gates

Opening Essay: Track 01  Enigmatic Land
Music Break 1: Track 07 Cloud Forest
Music Break 2: Track 07 Cloud Forest (cont)
Music Break 3: Track 07 Cloud Forest (cont)