Animal Training - The Tengri Concept

My way, The Tengri Concept, has its roots in the religious beliefs of the Steppe Horse Nomads - every one of us, people or animals, are just a part of our environment. None of us is more or bear more significance than the other. Understanding and respect is the first step to comprehend the type of work I promote with regards to animal training or simply relationship with an animal. I grew up with

various "beasts" around and as a teenager I learned and practiced falconry. I have also worked with dogs and horses on professional bases. I am from a Hungarian descent, I lived and worked in Canada for many years and finally I settled in Germany. My work entails horsemanship, animal communication, animal training and I put up seminars and workshops on the importance of building a special relationship with animals. From time to time I also work in the round pen as most horsemen do, but I put an emphasis on relationship rather than training. It is, in my view, the bases for any success. My way is based on free will, absolutely no use of force and asking rather than commanding. Although I believe that we humans can build a relationship with most animal species I concentrate my work on dogs and horses. I sincerely believe that horses are totally misunderstood and should not be bent to our will but rather carefully approached. Halters, bits, saddles and widely used horse tack is something I promote hard to avoid. While dogs and people share similar predatory patterns horses are completely different. Gentle and peaceful yet absolutely competitive, horses share a very intricate social behavior which takes time to understand and translate. They run first and think second as most prey animal species do, which makes it the more complicated to deal with their spooky reactions if handled wrong. They have finely honed instincts and they do not build trust easily. Once they do though they are very simple to handle and work with. This is a double edged sword however, every time we interact with horses they learn just as much or more about us as we do about them. Whether we like it or not. My work is to teach and coach others on the kind of relationship horses and people need to establish before they can successfully "train each other". It is essential to humble ourselves and accept the basic principal: we are not more or more significant or more cognitive or wiser or smarter or any more important by the rules of nature than our horses. Unless we do that our work, in my opinion, is doomed to failure, struggle and forceful repetition of the work neither parties find fun or joyful.