Reaching the Animal Mind

Karen Pryor gives everyone the technology for not just reaching into animal minds but glimpsing their souls. Reaching the Animal Mind is about an entirely new way to see, understand, and communicate with animals.

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Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals

by Dr. Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson

This book is a look at the core emotions of different species from the perspective of a neurodivergent understanding of animal psychology. Temple Grandin makes a case for using emotional understanding of animals' experiences, and how they would interact with their natural environments, to create better lives for animals in human environments.

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Horse Brain, Human Brain

by Janet L. Jones, PhD

Horse Brain, Human Brain introduces the many differences between horse and human brains. Without this knowledge, we often assume that horses learn, think, perceive, and attend to tasks the way we do. That assumption invites us to work against our horses' brains, expecting them to function in unnatural and counterproductive ways. This book offers the information needed to ride with our horses' brains.

Language Signs and Calming Signals of Horses: Recognition and Application

By Rachaël Draaisma

A detailed study and presentation of the subtle signals and signs a horse gives in response to their environment. The author presents the body language of the horse in a way that a human can interpret and use to address stressors the horse may be experiencing. This can give a human a way to help the horse with learning and de-escalate stress in the environment before it becomes unmanageable to the horse.

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Animals in Translation

By Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson, PhD

This book explores the complex world of animal behavior and cognition, providing insights into how animals perceive and interact with the world around them. Grandin, an animal scientist diagnosed with autism, combines her personal experiences with scientific research to offer a unique perspective on understanding and empathizing with the minds of animals.

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My Grandmother's Hands

By Resmaa Menakem

The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze, and it endures the trauma inflicted by the ills that plague society. Menakem argues this destruction will continue until Americans learn to heal the generational anguish of white supremacy, which is deeply embedded in all our bodies. Our collective agony doesn’t just affect African Americans. White Americans suffer their own secondary trauma as well. So do blue Americans—our police.

My Grandmother’s Hands is a call to action for all of us to recognize that racism is not only about the head, but about the body, and introduces an alternative view of what we can do to grow beyond our entrenched racialized divide.

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Horse

By Geraldine Brooks

A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history.

Based on the remarkable true story of the record-breaking thoroughbred Lexington, Horse is a novel of art and science, love and obsession, and our unfinished reckoning with racism.

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The Tellington TTouch: Caring for Animals with Heart and Hands

By Linda Tellington-Jones with Sybil Taylor

A simple, circular touch can make a dramatic difference in the way an animal feels and acts, accomplishing everything from the rehabilitation of a horse from an injured leg to quieting a compulsively barking dog. The Tellington TTouch offers tools to enhance animals' well-being and training that anyone can use on cats, dogs, birds, horses, every reptiles and other exotic animals.

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Shawna Karrasch

Shawna’s years at SeaWorld followed by decades of experience teaching R+ to horses all over the world makes her the consummate expert in positive reinforcement training.

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Body Mind Equine LLC

Coral Autumn Duvall

Positive Reinforcement training for horse and human in the Willamette Valley, Oregon.

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Hannah's Hoofcare

Barefoot trimming, with glue on and composite options. Providing trims that encourage the development of the internal structures of the hoof, transitioning horses out of traditional shoes, building better feet. The last fifteen years of my life has been spent studying and learning about horses feet, and everything that goes into building a perfect foot. This lead me down the rabit holes of nutrition, environment, movement, locomotion, exercise, riding disciplines, and training. 

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Progressive Hoofcare Practitioners

a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to provide a supportive network and educational foundation for hoof care professionals and horse owners based on a holistic and progressive approach to equine hoof care.

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Equine Cushings and Insulin Resistance - No Laminitis!

Started in 1999, the ECIR Group is the largest field-trial database for Pituitary Pars Intermedia Dysfunction (PPID) and Equine Metabolic Syndrome/Insulin Resistance (EMS/IR) in the world and provides the latest research, diagnosis, and treatment information, including dietary recommendations, for horses with these conditions.

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Nutrient Requirements of Horses

A program developed from equations and other data presented in the 6th revised edition of the "Nutrient Requirements of Horses" (NRC, 2007). The program compliments the information provided in the "Nutrient Requirements of Horses" by performing some of the procedures needed to calculate requirements. 

This program calculates nutrient requirements in amounts per day. However, the program allows the user to calculate nutrient concentrations/densities based on a specific level of intake. The program will also calculate the dietary supply of several nutrients if the user enters information on the amounts of specific feeds included in the ration.

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Balance Saddle

Being able to move in a powerful, balanced and engaged way, without restriction or discomfort, is every horse’s birth-right and essential in order for him to be able to carry the unnatural weight of a rider, without doing harm to himself.

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World Bitless Association

 A volunteer group of trainers, riders, behaviourists, equine professionals and horse lovers, that have been inspired to organise a specialised global bitless equestrian association.

Offering support, advice on ethical training and the functions of modern bitless bridles.

WBA represents ordinary riders, non-riders, competition riders, trainers, behaviourists and all equestrians, who want to see evidence based ethical training and riding increase in acceptance & popularity for the sustainable well being of the horse both mentally and physically.

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Karin Edwards, Rolfing

Rolfing(R) Structural Integration is an amazing transformative process that can help you evolve both physically and emotionally. Rolfing can reduce physical pain, improve your posture and balance, and make movement easier. Those who receive Rolfing typically feel more youthful, more hopeful, and more engaged with the world. www.portlandrolfer.com

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Tune Up Fitness

Empower you to be your own best first-stage healthcare provider, equipped with the knowledge, skills and tools to self-manage pain, reduce stress and perform at your best.

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Nutritious Movement

 "Movement, like food, is not optional; ailments you may be experiencing are simply (and complexly) symptoms of movement hunger in response to a movement diet that is dangerously low in terms of quantity and poor in terms of quality—meaning you aren't getting the full spectrum of movement nutrition necessary for a baseline human function." - Katy Bowman, Move Your DNA

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