Category Archives for Horse training
How To Be With Your Horse, Even On A Bad Day
How to be with your horse even though you’re having a bad day … or how do we actually be present with our horses when we’ve had a bad day? Or we feel kind of off, or you feel like you need a reset. It’s pretty easy to have bad days these days, isn’t it? Our horses can […]
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How to Motivate Your Horse
We get a lot of riders who wonder how to motivate their horse; they want more motivation, maybe more energy, more movement, more cooperation, more calmness, more fill in the blank, but what they don’t fully grasp is what motivation is… I was teaching a clinic many years ago to a group of 4-H kids, […]
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How to Make the Path from Liberty to Classical Dressage
The path from Liberty to Classical Dressage…Liberty is breathtaking, and also Classical Dressage is breathtaking. But there becomes a question about the path from one to the other. And the gap between the two is confusing to riders, so much to the point that riders just don’t really know why they’re doing each one, why it’s […]
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What do I need to work with a horse?
There are a few key things that are needed to work with a horse to be effective and successful in making progress in a timely manner. Have you ever felt like it’s just taking way too long to make progress with your horse? And, how would it feel if you had a way to get results with […]
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How to calm an upset horse
Dealing with an upset horse can be very discouraging, especially when a rider just doesn’t know what to do to help the situation. And, there can be many reasons why a horse gets upset too. One of those reasons is that the activity at hand is challenging for your horse. By challenging I mean not to overface […]
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What emotion do we want to promote in our horses?
Horses express so many emotions as we are around them and working with them. When it comes to training horses and having the best relationship that we possibly can across the species of horses and humans, the answer to this question makes a huge difference. But a lot of equine enthusiasts completely miss it which erases any […]
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