Natural Horsemanship

I had been delivering some horses to different parts of the country these past few weeks and am amazed at the amount of people that use natural horsemanship techniques and also those that do not follow or subscribe to the natural philosophy. I have met people that study only one clinician and whatever he says is gospel and then I have met some people that take some from each clinician and develop their own way using a little bit of everything. I use to believe that you had to follow a specific clinician and learn all you could from him. As I have met these people and have seen first hand how this works, I have to say that I realize it is not about this or that clinician or this or that piece of tack. Rather it is and should always be about the horse and what we need to do to build better communication with them. I have come to realize that to paraphrase Eclectic Horseman Magazine " Whatever Works". I believe that we need to remember that it is all about the horse whomever you choose to follow or not to follow. The horse is the whole reason we are here doing what we do and trying to better our communication and leadership with this wonderful animal called the horse.