Horse Instruction and Coaching- Tips for Equestrian students to learn best?

Here are a few tips on how to get the most out of your horse learning experiences.

Questions... the more a student is asking the better I can help them understand.

Let go of traditional misperceptions... so hard for folks to undo traditionally taught "this is how you do it irrelevant of the horse or rider's ability."

Searching... when riders let go of "have to accomplish x,y,z, they start to become available to learn and retain.

Self-reflection and assessment... so many equine enthusiasts only focus on the horse, rather than practicing refining their own clarity and communication.

Removing the ego... it can be an all-consuming task to protect one's ego. When riders remove that, they can absorb and retain new information that they can experiment with.

Try... nothing about the human and horse experience comes naturally when foreign, unnatural scenarios are presented to and ask of the horse. It requires information, openness, searching, refinement, and countless hours where there is no "endpoint" in the learning process. Without the human willingness to try the horse doesn't have a chance.

In this photo Peaches, the palomino mare is highly impressed with the kind of lesson where the human is Searching and learning as much as she normally does!

Also hilarious is my cold weather sensitivity as you can see from my many layers and the student is... not fazed by the low 30 deg weather.

PC Jessie Lean