About Carrie
About your host & teacher Carrie Eastman… 50 years of horse experience, starting with English equitation for hunters and jumpers and open jumping. Self-taught barefoot hoof trimmer Apprenticed and studied various wellness techniques such as homeopathy, craniosacral, applied kinesiology, and…
- training, Boutique Arabian breeding Program, conscious horsemanship, Featured, Lessons from the mares
The fire, and starting fresh
A series about the training process, thoughts and feelings, and business planning behind our practical horse program at the farm. Our working model that was just launching last summer with promising results was unraveled when we had the fire. We…
The problem with goals and agendas…
Sometimes being practical and having a tight timeline and agenda backfire. Sometimes we humans have to revisit old lessons. Humans are funny that way. Lucky has been one of my best teachers over the years. In past posts I have…
- conscious horsemanship, Learning With My Stallions, training, Boutique Arabian breeding Program, TTEAM & TTouch
Nasr – learning to lead
This post is part of a series I am writing about training, or being trained by, 2 stallions. Nafis Rafiq “Rafi” was 24, a been-there-done-that wise protective smart patient stallion. Nasr Mubaarak “Nasr” is his yearling son, just as…
Nasr the colt is weaned…at 17 months old
This post is part of a series I am writing about training, or being trained by, 2 stallions. Nafis Rafiq “Rafi” was 24, a been-there-done-that wise protective smart patient stallion. Nasr Mubaarak “Nasr” is his yearling son, just as…
The Silence Challenge
I was thinking about my experience, described in Neighmaste, Love & The Divine, and as I walking to the barn this morning suddenly decided I was going to bring in the herd for breakfast and do all the morning handling…
Virtual Horse Friendship
Thank you for visiting our Farm Friends Virtual Friendship (formerly Horse Heroes) page. Becoming a Virtual Horse Friend is quite simple and a lot of fun. The horses and donkey may have multiple donors and no ownership rights are conferred…
Day 2: Nasr the baby Arabian horse
Nasr’s second day here at East West on the outside. Meaning the outside of mom’s tummy. For months we have watched his mom get bigger, seen those first kicks and stirs, even observed Lucky the wise Arabian with his nose…
Neighmaste…love and the divine
How to pick a title for this blog post? Truly, words do not really do this experience justice. And that is no surprise, as horses do not think in words. They are beings of feeling, of connection, of energy,…
Natural horsemanship or conscious horsemanship
You will see the term natural horsemanship a lot these days. Less commonly, you will see people discussing conscious horsemanship. I consider myself a student of the horse, and a follower of conscious horsemanship. Here are what I…
