The Holistic Horse Lifestyle
What constitutes a Holistic Lifestyle for an Equine?
- A horse should be free in a large area with accessible natural or man made shelter 24hrs a day in varied terrain surfaces and environments.
- They should have access full time forage (in a Slow feeder) or combinations of safe levels of grazing and forage.
- They should be fed un-processed Whole feeds (if needed) in addition to their forage/grass diet.
- They should have access to other horses at minimum one other companion or another animal
- Their area should encourage natural exercise by putting forage in multiple areas and water at distances from each other.
- They should be offered a variety of Whole foods and Herbs regularly
- Their Training program should be balanced, sustainable and as stress free as possible
- They should enjoy a lot of down time with you!

- Equine TCM Element Typing
- Gut Checking and Spontaneous Right Choices
- Why’s my horse eating that? Live zoom class
- Liberty Fun!damentals Class 2
- In Hand Exercises
- Soul of Horsemanship
- Liberty Fun!damentals Class 4
- Equine Human Relationship Paradigms
- Visualization: Your Super Power!
- Desensitizing and why I don’t do it
- Soul of Horsemanship exercises podcast
- IVAE (Text)
- Dean’s story: Separation Issues and Disassociation
- Equine TCM Element Typing REPLAY
- Single Line Patterns
- TCM Vegetables Actions
- Liberty Fun!damentals: Class 3
- Zoopharmacognosy Native plant worksheet
- Holly’s Story:Separation anxiety, trust,chronic eye issues
- Why’s my horse eating that?
- Indy: The Journey Begins
- Lateral exercises course
- Zoopharmacognosy and Whole Food Therapy class 2 Replay
- Guided by FDWH
- Articulate Riding and IVAE Class 3 Replay
- Japanese Translation of the Soul of Horsemanship
- Do Horses need Leadership? Pod
- OEHR Class 1
- Liberty Fun!damentals Progress Chart
- Liberty aka Devil Pony’s Story
- OEHR Class 3
- Single Line and In Hand Prep class 4
- Liberty Fun!damental Patterns
- Horsefly on the Wall-Intro to Liberty for Riding with Indy Fire-Wood
- Uma Life (Japan) Jan 2022
- TCM Equine Element Typing
- Articulate Riding Patterns
- In Hand Patterns
- Journeys: Monty and Zoopharmacognosy miracles
- Single Line and In Hand Prep Class 3
- OEHR Class 4
- Angus’s Story: Healing Trauma not Training
- The Relationship is EVERYTHING
- Monty’s Journey Series
- Ohana Equine Human Relationship Series
- Liberty Fun!damentals Class 1
- Training your Horse in the FDWH System
- The Natural Frame Part 1 Green Horse zoom replay
- Zoopharmcognosy and Whole Food Therapy Replay
- Fire/Wood Element type
- Equine Emotions and Dressage for hooves
- Herd Culture
- Articulate Riding and IVAE method class 4 Replay
- (Japanese Translation)Ohana Equine Human Relationship Exercises
- Five Element Theory In The Horse
- TCM Fruit Actions
- TCM Food Energetics and Actions
- Articulate Rider and IVAE Method Class 2 Replay
- Liberty Fun!damentals series
- Consent
- Single Line and In Hand Ground Prep Class 2
- Soul of Horsemanship exercises
- Colt Starting and Maestro’s Progress Pod
- My most important Tools podcast
- TCM Herbs and Nuts Actions
- Give and Take, Apples and Carrots, and SOH
- Articulate Rider and IVAE Method Class 1 Replay
- OEHR Class 5
- Single Line Basic Exercises
- Single Line and In Hand exercises: Class 1
- TCM Grain actions
- Horse Fly on the Wall: Intermediate Liberty Dressage Wood/Fire
- How Element types and sentience impact herd dynamics
- OEHR Class 2
- The Natural frame at Liberty, In Hand and Mounted
- Going Bitless from Liberty to Mounted Preparation
- Introduction to Lateral work for Suppleness, Soundness, and Wellness
- Liberty Fun!damentals: Intro and Theory Livestream
- Zoopharmacognosy Live Streaming class 2020
- Articulate Rider Series
- Articulate Rider Live Streaming Class: Position Broken down
- Liberty Fun!damentals Live Streaming demo
- Guiding principles of Farah DeJohnette horsemanship
- Interview with Joanna Mendl Shaw of The Equus Project
- Why I love Traditional Chinese Medicine Podcast
- Ohana is 5!
- Colt Starting and Restarting podcast
- Revolutionize your riding workshop Sept 15th North Brookfield, MA
- Equipment Choices and Bitless podcast
- Getting started with Liberty podcast
- Starting Maestro: The first year
- I’m a Podcaster! First episode
- Ohana Equine relationship building Liberty class May 4-5 North Brookfield, MA
- FDH: Learning how to be Tied
- FDH: Hoof handling at Liberty
- Suppleness Dance workshop June 29-30 North Brookfield MA
- Youth Horsemanship camp July 8-12
- FDH Beach ride clinic Oct 6
- Ohana Foundation Course
- Maestro at 2!
- Angus: Looking under the hood
- Angus: In Hand exercises
- What is my Holistic Horsemanship?
- How do I start?
- The Holistic Horses Lifestyle
- Natural Hoof care
- Equine Acupuncture
- Natural Balance Dentistry
- Angus: Change of Bend on Line exercise
- Angus: Peeling the layers
- Angus: Starting In Hand Basics
- Angus: Liberty Fundamentals
- Angus: It takes a village
- Angus: Connection and Faux Connection
- Angus: Halter and Leading practice
- Angus and Innate cues
- Angus: Movement evaluation
- Angus: Part 2
- Conformation: Angus
- Character: Angus
- Colt Starting Adult Horse Restarting Course Outline
- Angus: Colt Starting and Restarting the Adult horse online course
- Gigi Cat: a study in the Companionship exercise
- What we learned from the Self Selection and Whole foods class
- Herbs and Whole foods class
- What I learned from Pete Ramey
- Ohana is 3!
- Sharing is Caring
- Territory and Eye contact in context
- Organic Conversations and keeping it in Context
- Horses in the Morning radio show Aug 2016
- How to “be” with horses Exercise 1
- Live from the paddock: Meet Maestro!
- A New Year and more about Maestro
- Begin at the Beginning
- How to make a “Bad” horse
- Energy
- Building Connection through Challenges
- Holistic Horse Magazine-Aug/Sept 2016
- Herbs and Whole foods
- Self Selection Worksheet
- Self Selection Herbs and Whole foods categories
- Herbs and Whole foods Live class
- Were 2 years old!
- Press Release: Holistic Horse fans have spoken! March 2016
- Press release: Improvisational Horsemanship and all that Jazz March 2016
- Stable Management Magazine June 2016
- Holistic Horse magazine July 2016
- Essential Oils for horses
- Seat and Position exercise class
- Seat Awareness and Position exercises(Text)
- Our NSA Workshop
- Movement and Posture
- Doc’s Liberty Class
- Leadership?
- Horse Listening
- Water Horses
- Live Clinic Preview- Natural Response Training
- Earth Horse and NRT Demo
- Metal Horses
- Playing with Fire Horse
- Wood Horses
- Which Element is your horse?
- Body Language
- Respecting Intelligence and energy
- Horse&Rider April 2016
- Horse&Rider March 2016
- Natural Outline: Overview
- Natural Outline Class: Creating a flexible plan
- Natural Outline class- Creating a plan
- Conformation evaluation
- The Natural Outline: Basic exercises
- Natural Outline Class: Lesson 3: Basic Exercises
- Natural Outline: Lesson 3: Basic Exercises
- Natural Outline: Conformation continued
- Natural Outline: Lesson 2: Body Awareness and Language
- Natural Outline, Liberty Fun!damentals and Conformation
- Happy New Year! and Natural Outline Class
- Natural Outline: Liberty Fun!damentals Module 1
- Natural Outline Progress Journal
- Bridling Exercise
- The Natural Outline: Liberty Fundamentals demo
- Our first live demo!
- Mirroring
- Frida: Part 2
- Minty: Part 3
- Self Selection for Blood Building
- Sounds of Liberty project
- Willow: Liberty Fun!damentals
- Minty: Part 2
- The Articulate Rider
- Horse&Rider-October 2014
- Horse&Rider-November 2014
- Radio New Zealand Interview-December 2012
- Horse&Rider-December 2014
- Horsetalk NZ-August 2014
- Wairarapa News-November 2014
- Wairarapa News-August 2014
- Wairarapa Times Age-August 2014
- Massachusetts Horse-Dec/Jan 14/15
- Horse&Rider-October 2014
- Equestrian Sports NZ-September 2014
- James: Part 2-Playing with Send and Draw at Speed
- Mercury and I: Intermediate Liberty Fun!damentals
- Yoga for Equines and Humans
- Dean: Part 2
- Frida: Part 1
- Natural Outline Exercises 1-5
- Minty: Part 1
- Intro to Liberty Clinic at Ohana
- FDH Equine and Human Yoga class with Farah and Kate Perna July 19th
- Liberty and Physical Rehab
- FDH Ohana farm open ship in lesson day May 31st
- Brio’s Journey: Part 6
- FDH Introduction to Liberty Clinic at Ohana Farm May 16th-17th
- Dean: Part 1
- Playing with herd Dynamics: Part 2
- Brio’s Journey: Part 5
- James: Part 1
- Horses of Ohana
- Willow: part 1
- an·thro·po·mor·phiz·ing
- Brio’s journey part 4
- Companion Time Exercise
- Charlotte: Part 1
- Ohana exercises Theory
- Food Exercises: Grazing Game
- Going Bitless Introduction Class
- Rules of Conduct
- Mya: Part 1
- Mercury part 3
- Mercury part 2
- Mercury part 1
- Grazing Game
- Bridling Game
- Starting Electra: Colt Starting
- Liberty Rein Exercises
- Starting Django: Colt Starting series part 1-14
- Your Feedback wanted!
- FDH Case study blog
- Brio’s Journey part 3
- Happy New year! Brio: Part 2
- Brio’s Journey
- Down Unda highlights
- Down Unda!
- Grand Opening Highlights and Down Unda time!
- Ohana farm Grand Opening October 18th
- Opportunities
- FDH Confident Trail Riding Beach ride Workshop October 12th
- Fiona Habershon Animal Healing Demo October 18th
- Updates from FDH and Ohana Farm
- Mercury part 3
- Mirroring vs. Join Up
- Ohana Farm
- Natural Response Training
- UK highlights
- Part 2 of 3 FDH clinics at Silver Moon farm Greenville, NY
- Equine Body Awareness
- Horse listening
- Self Selection highlights
- Sounds of Liberty
- Mercury part 2
- Confident Trail Clinic exercise
- Mercury part 1
- Self selection Supplementation
- Boundaries
- No
- FDH 3 day clinic and Demo: Tree Tops farm, North Brewham, Bruton, Somerset UK June 5-9
- Self Selection class with Fiona Habershon, Plainfield MA May 25
- FDH Intro to Liberty Class, Greenville, NY May 18
- FDH Confident trail riding workshop, Bethlehem, CT May 4
- FDH one day workshop, Greenville, NY April 27
- Self Selection starter kit
- Self Selection and FDH Intro to Liberty workshop, Gilboa, NY May 31
- No Rope Halters, No Round Pens
- Interpretation exercise part 2
- FDH 1 day Workshop Greenville, NY
- Exciting new stuff
- Welcome to my new Website!
- Dogmanship and Self Selection
- Gadgets and Magic bits
- My Artistic Vision
- Interpretation Exercise
- Annual New Year’s Exercise
- Trained Liberty vs. Liberty Training
- Double Liberty Fun!
- Energetic Inflection
- Down Unda fun!
- Correct Principles at Liberty
- This Week: Yoga tips!
- Flowers for confidence
- Are you shouting?
- UK summary
- Confidence on the trail
- My week with Fiona and Self Selection
- It’s not personal
- Zoopharmaconosy Journal
- Conflicting advice
- Electra’s first ride
- Voice
- Context
- Electra
- Zoopharmacognosy: My experiences
- UK Clinic overview
- UK bound!
- Fear revisited
- Non horse person lessons
- A Logo with meaning
- Precision
- What food tells me about a horse
- Patterns
- Obstacles and Agility fun
- Macie
- Respect
- Why Liberty?
- Intention
- Liberty -Line -Mounted patterns: figure 8 warm-up
- Herd Rituals
- Companion Time revisited
- Liberty Practice: Spanish Walk and Transitions
- Beach: part 2
- Going to the Beach: Part 1
- Creativity
- Horse Journal: Florida
- Happy Holidays! and New Year exercise
- Back from Down Under!
- The Grazing Game
- Down under bound!
- Liberty FUN!damentals
- Ear Pinning
- 6 things…
- Horsemanship for Wellbeing
- Playing with Bridless Dressage
- Labor Day Clinic 2012: The Mercury Show Part 1
- The Natural Outline
- Probiotics: Equine Wellness tip
- Tail Swishing
- Horse Journal: Django’s challenge
- Horse Journal
- Goings on
- Starting Django: The Approach part 2
- Starting Django: The Approach
- Mirrors
- FDH Tips: Essential oils
- Bitless for Bitted horses
- What Natural Horsemanship is to me
- Inspiration…
- I’m workin on….: Off the Track to Bridleless
- Announcing: Going Bitless online class info
- New Zealand Clinic overview
- New Zealand Clinic: Day One
- Simple Horsemanship tips from Mercury
- Force versus Firmness
- Liberty Training for Dogs
- Children’s Equitation Center
- The Virtues of Companion Time
- Ask
- Lipizzan Soccer, Horse-fun-ship, How and why
- Confident Horseman exercise part 3…Change your mind, Change your horse
- From Fearful to Confident Horsemanship…
- Thought
- Horses are the greatest teachers!
- Conversation
- The beginning stages of Bridless Dressage
- St. Vincent’s Clinic: Last day and overview
- St. Vincent’s Clinic: Video clips of Day 5… Play day!
- St. Vincent’s Clinic: Video clips of Day 4…
- St. Vincent’s Clinic: Video clips of Day 3…
- St. Vincent’s Clinic: Video clips of Day one and two…
- Greetings from St. Vincent’s! First installment
- Soft vs. Light
- Promo Video: Clinic in St. Vincent’s with Stina Herberg and I 4/4-4/9
- Challenges…
- Yoga and Horsemanship
- We, Us, Together equals Partnership
- Keeping Training and Practice Fun and Joyful
- Colt starting contests, Mustang Makeovers, and Clinics…
- The 10 second exercise
- Visualization and Intention Setting
- Relationship problem vs. Training Problem
- Natural born eventer works for head rubs, treats…
- Bitless: Why I do it…
- Product Review: Horsethink Bareback pad
- Communication
- Positive Reinforcement
- Focus
- Dressage as meditation
- Chiropractic work and hoof trimming
- Vlog: Working with Liberty for Natural Jumpers
- Vlog series: How Liberty work helped me with riding part 9
- Vlog series: How Liberty work helped me with riding part 8
- Vlog series: How Liberty work helped me with riding part 7
- Connection versus Collection versus Connection
- Vlog series: How Liberty work helped me with riding part 6
- Vlog series: How Liberty work helped me with riding part 5
- The 3 stages of learning an exercise for a horse and rider
- Desensitizing versus shutting a horse down
- Vlog series: How Liberty work helped me with riding part 4
- Vlog series: How Liberty work helped me with riding part 3
- Vlog series: How Liberty work helped me with riding Part 2
- New Series: How Liberty work helped me with riding
- Vision for the New Year
- Natural Dressage for Fun!
- Mercury and me ride bridless for the second time and…
- New Video! Liberty Clipper Training
- Aggression and herd dynamics…
- Saddle Balance
- Food medicine…Alfalfa
- Me and Mercury Ride Bridless for the first time
- For fun some new “show styles” for spring!
- Weaning done right?…
- Natural First aid kit item list
- Natural First Aid
- My New Favorite video!
- Visualization…This stuff really works…
- Goal setting for the new year…
- Product Review: Ansur Excel Treeless saddle
- Mercury’s first Blue
- Product Review: Fhoenix Treeless Dressage saddle
- Cancellation and refund policy