Funktionel Hest

04/03/2026

I sidste uge tilbragte jeg nogle skønne dage i det jyske hos Helle Vestergaard Knudsen og Desirae Sarah Rasmussen i Djurs Horse Park og Hesteskole.
Futtes søn Liepaja (Lia) fra 2024 skulle nemlig kastreres og jeg havde mulighed for at hente ham på klinikken, køre ham hjem til Djurs, passe ham og lære ham at kende.
Og jeg må bare sige WAAAUUUUW for en hest han er ved at udvikle sig til 😍

Een ting er gener (to dressurrettede forældre - hhv. DV og Lusitano), men noget endnu vigtigere er miljø og især de oplevelser vi tilsigtet/utilsigtet giver vores unge heste.

Han har virkelig fået de bedste betingelser at vokse op under:
Naturligt undfanget, 1. leveår sammen med både mor og far, 2. leveår uden far -men med bonusfar, mor, (hel)lillesøster, bonusmor/tante og senere en endnu større flok at lege med, lære fra og blive “opdraget” af ❤️❤️❤️

Helle og Des driver også Flokdynamik og den viden de sammen besidder, har de omsat til et grundigt, velovervejet og formidabelt stykke arbejde - fra det sekund Lia landede i græsset til han skulle på sin første gåtur, lære at gå i trailer, køre i trailer, kastreres et fremmed sted, overnatte ude, hentes og læsses af en helt fremmed (mig), stå på boks og have grimt smagende sprøjter i munden, gå ture uden at sprælle (ret meget), til nu hvor han blev sluppet løs igen efter 7 dages boksro.
Hele tiden har de haft styret efter at hans behov har været dækket efter 5 domæne-modellen og at han hele tiden har haft oplevelsen af at have et valg og hold nu op en fornuftig, overskudsagtig, nysgerrig, tillidsfuld og velafbalanceret ung knægt der er kommet ud af den tilgang 🥰🥰

Behøver jeg at sige at jeg glæder mig ubeskriveligt til at få ham hjem om 1-1,5 år og starte tilridningen af ham, sammen med Kirsten Alexa Hansen🥳😍

“It takes a village…”, som man siger - og den landsby ligger på Djurs 😘

23/01/2026

Der er mange grundelementer jeg ikke er enig med Philippe Karl om, men det her er jeg meget enig i!
Dont step on the speeder and pull the handbrake at the same time 🙏

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25/03/2025

Den jordnære magi omkring heste ✨❤️

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Horses: Nature’s Way of Keeping You Broke, Humbled, and Weirdly Fulfilled😆

Let’s be honest.
Horses are majestic, noble creatures — until they spot a leaf and launch into full-body suspicion like it’s armed and dangerous.

They are walking contradictions:
Huge, powerful athletes... terrified of puddles and sometimes offended by shadows.

And yet… they are a gift.
A glorious, hay-burning, vet-bill-generating miracle.
Like owning a large, unpredictable life coach with hooves and no interest in your self-esteem.

Here’s why horses are a blessing:

1️⃣They don’t lie.

They don’t stroke your ego. They respond with the kind of honest uncertainty that makes you suddenly very aware of how uncoordinated and confusing you are — and how insecure that makes you feel.

2️⃣They reward learning.
Not your Instagram quote collection. Actual learning — about anatomy, behaviour, biomechanics, tack, training, nutrition, hoof angles, weather patterns, and whatever else you googled at 2am. Horses don’t necessarily care how you feel about them — but they care a lot about how you make them feel.

3️⃣They expose your inner control freak.
You can’t manipulate a horse with good vibes or people pleasing. You can try. But they’ll politely disagree by galloping sideways across a paddock and launching your emotional baggage into orbit.

4️⃣They inspire you to build fitness.
As my good friend Kate pointed out — horse riding doesn’t necessarily make you fit. It’s something you get to do because you are fit. That said, lugging buckets, fencing paddocks, chasing loose horses in slippers, and dragging hay nets surely counts as functional movement!

5️⃣They don’t care about your personal growth journey.
They care about consistency. Clarity. How you pick up the reins. And snacks. Mostly snacks. But whatever you do, don't rely on snacks!

6️⃣They scare you — regularly.
And in doing so, they make you smarter. More strategic. Less attached to your dignity. They teach you to feel fear, assess it, and make good decisions because this how things gets less scary.

7️⃣They connect you to other horse-hair-covered, hay-stuck-in-everything, passionate weirdos.
People who’ve also been flattened, humbled, and spiritually realigned by the realities of owning a horse.

8️⃣They force you to get better.
Not just at riding, but at patience, persistence, failure, and managing your mental spiral when someone offers judgemental, unsolicited advice and makes you feel like a complete failure of a horse owner.

9️⃣They teach you what relentless really means.
Because horses don’t clock off. They don’t wait for your motivation. They need feeding. Now. In the mud. While the gate falls off and you’re questioning your life choices.

And still… you love them❤.
You show up.
You try again.
You learn. You adapt. You laugh.
You cry into the flat float tyre you discovered on the morning of a show.

Because the horse — that gloriously fabulous, instinct-driven, chaos-prone masterpiece — makes you more human.
More present.
More alive.
More capable of handling the absurdity of life with grit and grace.

They’re not magic.
They’re not mystical.
They’re not your therapist.

They’re just horses.
And that’s what makes them sacred.

But here’s the catch:
If you try to skip the work — the learning, the failing, the awkwardness, the effort — and go chasing only the magic and the “connection,” you don’t end up enlightened🧘‍♀️.

But if you do the work — if you lean in, stay curious, take the hits and keep learning and practicing?

Well then…
You earn the magic.

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19/03/2025

Smukke Furia og dygtige Kirsten 🥰