Bohenek Horsemanship

Chris Bohenek brings over 16 years of working horseback experience, in handling both horses and cattle to his students.  After having worked for large ranches throughout Montana, Wyoming, and Arizona starting colts and taking care of cattle, Chris and his wife Lynne, relocated to the Bitterroot Valley of Montana to start their family and business .

Throughout Chris’s 16 years, he has trained or started well over 1300 horses and has worked and handled thousands of cattle, all of this from the back of a horse. In the beginning, like so many people, Chris would get frustrated with his lack of knowledge of the equine and bovine species.  After several years of doing things the “hard” way, Chris started to seek out advise and help from others that had gone before him, those that understood the quiet relationship between horse, rider and cow. In doing so,  Chris was introduced to the Vaquero or Californio philosophy and style of horsemanship.

This awakening to a more quiet and easy approach which brings a sense of “oneness” to horse, rider, and cow, has started a life long journey for Chris, to not only continue to learn and better his own horsemanship and cowman-ship, but to help educate others in their journey as well.  Chris’s unique experience with horses, cattle and people has given him a low stress approach that helps the rider, their horses and the cows being handled to learn from the “release” rather than be confused by  “fear“, “scare tactics” or “conditioned response cues”.  Chris takes this approach to his clinics, demonstrations and into his training that he does locally and abroad.

 

 

Chris believes that by using good foundation horsemanship that requires “feel” and “timing” and the Californio philosophy, integrated with his “Core Balance”™  exercises and combining this all with low stress cowman-ship, will help the horses, riders and cattle to better communicate with each other for a stress free learning environment. The importance of improving your horsemanship and applying it towards cow work, greatly enhances the learning curve of both horse and rider.

Chris has always felt that whether your discipline is Western or English or whether you are a dressage rider, reiner, ride the trails for pleasure, or a working buckaroo, nothing can replace the benefits of a “job”, and the good Lord created no better suited job for the horse than cow work. Chris feels that the things he brings to his horsemanship and cowman-ship, can help ALL riders of ALL disciplines to better themselves and their horses.

Chris has been featured at numerous horse expos demonstrating his techniques throughout Montana, Idaho, South Dakota, Illinois, and most recently during the 2010 World Equestrian Games in Lexington,Kentucky.

When Chris is not doing clinics or demos he is in the Bitterroot Valley with his wife and two boys, where he continues to train horses and work with neighboring cattle. Chris is always building quality Californio style ranch geldings for sale, as well as taking in a select number of outside horses for training throughout the year.

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Bohenek Horsemanship