Welcome to The Heart of Horsemanship Project

Jayne and her herd will share much of their journey here. 

Horsemanship is relationship. The vessel by which horses and humans experience life together; experience love, joy and contrast. 

Here we will share the heart of the threads connecting our species, and we will inspire you. 

Jayne has a herd of four horses who are her family - Cedar, Heart of Burgundy, mother of Presence of Heart. Bachelor Boy, a twenty years young Australian Quarterhorse, and Romantic Notion; Whiskey, a tri-coloured Pinto gelding. The herd welcome and educate horses and people every day. They have a Twitter account twitter.com/JaynesHerd and a Page on Facebook facebook.com/JaynesHerd that you may "Like." Jayne uses Twitter too, to share events.  

Jaynes Herd

Our project, The Heart of Horsemanship, started life as a book in the late 1990's. 

As a teacher Jayne is asked many questions, but the most frequent request was "please write a book, so that I may study your horsemanship." 

Jayne began her book, and over the years has published articles, tales, blogs and micro-blogs, video's, tests and curriculum for professionals. Jaynes' reasons for not producing a book have been many and varied - too much travelling, not enough time, always evolving, and so on, however since Jayne recognised the reason she loved horses so completely was because they inspired in her to journey to her heart, with passion, to her source and her purpose, she began to call "The Book" "The Heart of Horsemanship." The reams of notes remained unpublished. 

Jayne has engaged with thousands of people all over the world since she joined the World Wide Web in 1999. Within days Jayne wrote advice on forums, later YouTube, and within a few short years received an invitation from a former University colleague to join a new site called Facebook. Jayne has been able to successfully micro-blog about her life as a teacher, a lover of art, a thinker and creator, whilst still working with people and horses full-time. In 2010 Jayne decided "The Heart of Horsemanship" was no longer a book, but a project. A project with hundreds of contributors, human and animal. A creation evolving daily, definitely enhanced by sharing. Participation is the heart of the journey with a horse. Experiencing, feeling, growing. 

Join us, the herd, the co-creators and the online community as we live at the heart of horsemanship.