Archive for May 2019

When I first wrote “The Nature of Natural” in 2004 I was trying to connect all of the proven methods of training horses with principles that are found in Nature, thus the name “The Nature of Natural”. At that time and to this day, I have been an advocate and student of Tom Dorrance and Ray…

In the Beginning: In 2004 I wrote the original Nature of Natural document and chose the name Nature of Natural with the idea of what actually occurred in nature. That being how minds work, how they learn, and what adaptive qualities were involved in the behavior of horses. At the time, the movement known as…