Interview with Nashon Cook

Nahshon Cook is an author, poet, and first generation horseman from Denver, Colorado. Nahshon graduated with a Bachelors of Sciences degree in Human Services from Metropolitan State University. As a horseman, Nahshon interests lay in working with horses with major mental, emotional, and physical training related trauma. He lives and works out of his family’s farm in Parker, Colorado where he uses his background in classical dressage and rehabilitation to help horses and their people.
Nahshon is the author of the book, “Being with Horses” and you can find him on his Facebook Page: Nahshon Cook Horsemanship - / nahshoncookhorsemanship
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Located in Portugal, Thomas is an International Clinician and author of "Dressage Principles based on Biomechanics" and "Long Reining: From the Beginning through the Levade" (published by Cadmos Press in both English and German) and countless articles in many publications. Shana is a USDF Bronze and Silver Medalist. Together they create and orchestrate the Artistic Dressage program.
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[@chiforhorses]

Thank you! You are such a breath of fresh air in the horse world, Nashon 😊

[@lizzief2220]

Great Nahshon wise words fabulous

[@ShinKyuUniversity]

Love this conversation

[@akboudicae]

I find it super interesting that people used to teach that "feel" was "something you were born with" because I believe good communication skills can be taught; "feel," at the end of the day, is learning how to understand what your horse is communicating and learning how to communicate it back. The old school instructors who felt that it could not were just unable to articulate to others what they were doing. Hence it says more about the old instructors' inability to analyze, break down, and translate their horse communication in ways for other humans. We are fortunate that this is changing; thank you for helping horses and their people!

[@ArtisticDressage]

Yes, I think you are absolutely right. By saying that feel could not be taught, they were absolving themselves of the responsiblity to do an adequate job teaching it. It's essentially a cop-out for being lazy. I am glad to see that we are not the only ones that see it this way and that thinking around this is changing. It is better for the students, of course, and therefore better for the horses, too.

[@erinfletcher9060]

Yes!!

[@lindagarriott2347]

Sounds great!

[@lindagarriott2347]

I can see and hear Nahshon now

[@robinfriedrich6678]

Classic Mercury in Retrograde issues!!!😌

[@erinfletcher9060]

Yes!!