Franklin Levinson Presents: “Beyond Natural Horsemanship” Successful Training Through Trust, Compassion, Wisdom and Skill

Franklin Levinson's mission is to enhance and enrich the horse/human relationship wherever and whenever possible by teaching humans how to compassionately and effectively interact with their horses.

Whether a competitive rider, trail rider, Western or English discipline, your success with your equine is based on the depth and quality of the trust you have established with your horse, along with appropriate and practiced skills and clear and practical knowledge about horses.

Showing humans how to have the highest and best relationship with their horses and how to keep it has always been one of Franklin's main goals as well. To be good with horses at a high level requires us humans to come forward with our best qualities and attributes. Similar to a 'great parent', successful relationships with horses require compassion, kindness, precision, patience, clarity, real knowledge (not just opinions and projections), great leadership and more. Franklin has always felt that practicing appropriate interaction with horses helps humans to become more highly functional in all their relationships. Thus, in all his programs, he teaches success with horses as life enrichment for the human as well as the horse. Be as good as you can be for your horse just like you would for your child is one of Franklin's mottos.

Franklin is based in Snowmass, Colorado and is available for clinics and seminars throughout the year in Colorado (immersion programs) as well as your home area whether in the US or around the world. Attending a horsemanship seminar with Franklin Levinson will absolutely increase your success with your horse, no matter what the activity. Franklin has 40+ years experience as a professional horseman. Long before the 'natural horsemanship' craze, Franklin was teaching and training horses using his own gentle, effective methods. Experience one of the few, true remaining innovators of gentle, successful horsemanship, as well as Equine Facilitated Learning, by attending a Franklin Levinson seminar.

For those of you traveling to Maui, Franklin created The Maui Horse Whisperer Experience as a wonderful way to advance your horsemanship and enjoy a tropical island paradise vacation all at once.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS...

Franklin has scheduled his Australia Tour for February 2009, and into the first week of March. Clinics and private lessons will be offered in Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney & Brisbane.

Training Thru Trust ® introducing Equine Facilitated Learning (EFL)
Enlarge Cover "To be good with horses at a high level, we as humans have to come forward with our best qualities and attributes." In this program, internationally acclaimed horseman, Franklin Levinson demonstrates how successful relationships with horses can be achieved through compassion, kindness, skillful precision, patience, clarity and real knowledge of great leadership. The clear step-by-step methods demonstrated by Franklin in this unique DVD produced on his UK tour offers the possibility of communication with horses at the deepest level.	CLIENT REVIEWS LEARN MORE... Video Sample Duration: 1hr. Format: DVD Cost $59.95 $39.95 plus S & H.
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Be sure to check out Franklin's new Photo Gallery! Here you'll find loads of images of some of his most recent clinics, horse treks and even movie shoots.

We also post good new stories and reader photographs that depict special happenings with animals and humans. Along with challenges and questions humans have with their horses, we also receive some wonderful success and grand experience stories of humans with their equines. If you have a great horse story you would like to share with our visitors, please send it along to Franklin via an email. We will do our best to post them on the site as additional inspiration for our guests.

In addition to offering group seminars, private horsemanship training and phone consultations, Franklin also provides a free help center within this website with its own search feature to make finding his suggested solutions to equine problems easier. There are literally hundreds of questions and responses archived within that section. The incredible volume of questions continuously coming in to the site indicates how successful this feature has become. The tremendously positive feedback from folks who have been helped by this service is a tribute to the effectiveness of Franklin’s methods, even through an email. It takes a huge amount of Franklin's time to respond. This 'free' feature and the site itself are in need your support. We have added a shopping corral page currently containing DVD's and videos of Franklin's seminars. Please consider a purchase from our 'shopping corral' as a way for you to support Franklin's work, this website, and to have the advantage of the visual aid to help advance your horsemanship.

We are deeply grateful for your consideration. We hope you continue to find this website of service to you. Thank you for your love of horses and your dedication towards their well being.

 OTHER IMPORTANT SITE FEATURES...

Franklin, Pete & "Aspen Gold".

Articles & Essays - Includes personal essays by Franklin, published articles highlighting his work, and "Good News" stories by our readers.

Calendar - WHEN and WHERE will Franklin be training horses and presenting his natural horsemanship clinics? The answers are here.

Contact Information - This page lists various contact numbers and addresses where Franklin will be staying throughout the year. The fastest way to reach Franklin is still his email: Franklin@WayoftheHorse.org. He checks it on a daily basis.

Links Page - Some of our favorite links for your enjoyment and information.