Category Archives for Horse training
How To Melt Resistance Around Horses
Resistance, both from horses and from riders has several levels.Let’s concentrate on how to actually offer your horse what he or she requires, and how to make riding joyful rather than frightening.There can be these resistances coming up between horse and rider…Resistance to understandingResistance to raising your standard as a riderResistance to being with your […]
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Horse Anxiety: 3 Steps For Progress
How do you make progress with your horse when your horse is spooky? When we’re dealing with life and horses, it’s not the spookiness or the anxiety that really matters, is what you do with it. If you can get curious enough to explore what to do with anxiety, then that is what we can explore in […]
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7 Keys To True Connection With Your Horse
When in this state of being, that I’m about to describe to you, riders are not able to access these 7 keys to true connection … and that can be devastating for their horsemanship. It can be so very frustrating, if you are a coach or a teacher or an instructor, when you see somebody who […]
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Horse Training Without Pressure
If you’re not doing this with your horse training, chances are you’re not reaching your full potential. I’m going to share with you what I do in my horse training, that I’ve learned along the way that has helped me to accomplish so much more with my horses by putting less pressure on myself as a […]
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How To Overcome Fear With Your Horse?
Have you ever felt like you want to finally get great rides with your horse, but it’s gonna be too risky, because your horse is just too spooky? Have you ever maybe gone to the gate to get your horse, to bring your horse out to ride, and you have that awkward pause. Those butterflies are […]
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Why Won’t My Horse Go Forward?
Why my horse won’t go forward? Can you imagine just for a second, just have a visualization of you riding a perfect ride with your horse. So you’re riding you have connected, you have a true forward, you have the willingness from your horse. And you can see so clearly how you can trot and you […]
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How To Choose An Online Horse Course
Have you ever taken an online horse course and you felt like you’re further behind than when you started the course? Have you taken an online course and registered for it, paid for it, and never actually finished? How about…. Have you enrolled in an online program or a course been giving things to do, but it just […]
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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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