Читать книгу The Five Roles of a Master Herder - Linda Kohanov - Страница 11
ОглавлениеRiding a horse well is an art form; there’s no doubt. But when I stepped out of the saddle to help my horses give birth, live as a herd, and socialize their children to thrive in the interspecies culture we were creating together, I experienced an astonishing variety of relational, psychological, emotional, and hormonal factors acting on me from moment to moment. For over two decades, I reveled, daily, in the oxytocin flow of trust and affection, both with mares and newborn foals and during quiet moments with my stallion and his sons. In standing up to unruly adolescents and dominant males, I felt the vasopressin boost of confidence and assertiveness. On several occasions, a more dramatic surge of courage and concern motivated me to put my life at risk to protect the horses (such as incidents with a bear and a couple of rowdy bulls). Other times, I stood, dumbfounded, watching Rasa chase cattle and aggressive horses away from me.
