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WILD HORSE WORKSHOP 2001 was held July 8-14, 2001, at Corvallis, Oregon. This exciting week-long workshop was the project of the Wild Horse Mentors, and carried out with the cooperation and assistance of the BLM Wild Horse & Burro Program and the Pacific Wild Horse Club.
Robert Denlinger works with a 6-year-old dun mare
 Everyone loved these two mares. Both gentled easily, were sweet and responsive. Both were adopted at the end of the Workshop |  This poor little sway-backed yearling was so sweet. We took extra care to gentle her in hopes of finding her a good home. I don't think it worked. I think she was not adopted. |
 This mare bears the scars of a bad experience in the wild. She now lives at the home of Rhonda Groves in Etna, CA |  Closeup of the dun mare, showing her "zebra" dun leg stripes. |
 These are some of the horses in the barns. They were almost all nice big sturdy horses. | |
 Lesley Neuman with a yearling | |
 Lesley and the yearling |  Elsa takes a turn |
 A participant tries poling on mentor Diane Delano |  Diane and another participant, using the pole method of getting the horse used to being touched by humans |
 Diane gets up close and personal with a horse, after poling |  John Sharp, the 86-year-young "inventor" of the pole method, addresses the crowd |
 A visitor pets a horse that has been through the gentling program |  Mike Horrigan answers questions |
 Steve Rother and his horse, Rocket, instruct a participant with her horse. | |
 Steve leads the Cremello mare out of the round pen, after working with her. The Cremello was adopted the first weekend, but was especially troubled by the whole domestication thing. In fact, she was a "basket case." It took a lot of mentors - most notably Steve - a lot of hours getting her to come around. Steve made use of the frightened mare's natural inclination to look to another horse for guidance. Rocket was exactly the right guy for the job. |  Steve's dog, Jessie, was a crowd pleaser - so very well trained! |
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 | These three photos show Robert Denlinger's "Human Round Pen" method of gentling. He says he learned it from the Navajo people in the 4 Corners area of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah. |
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 "T-Touch" massage, taught by Hue Simpson. |  Hue teaches focused relaxation and breathing techniques. If you are relaxed, your horse will relax. If you are tense, your horse will sense it and react by also tensing up. |
