Riding in Real Time
During moments of unexpected or unwanted equine behavior the human often tries to understand why "it" is happening. The reality is while their brain is desperately trying to process and search for understanding the horse's behavior (often feeling like they are guessing,) they don't recognize how long they are leaving or "abandoning" the horse with their lack of communication while trying to sort their thoughts.
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Horse Riding in Real Time
Has the Human become Desensitized to the Horse?
In this horse skills video in the Dear Sam: Horse Help Horsemanship Series, Alternative Horsemanship™ the Remote Horse Coach discusses raising human awareness and availability towards horse communication and behavior to diminish unwanted equine behavior. Bonus video clip of Horse Behavior Assessment Opportunity. #alternativehorsemanship #horsebehavior #dearsamhorsehelp #horse
Alternative Horsemanship™ Horse and Health Podcast Interview
Listen or watch the Alternative Horsemanship™ interview by Anne Axell of Horse and Health Podcast addressing horse training, equine behavior, health issues, rider mindset, and so much more!
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Detrimental Patterns in Equine Interactions
Changing the pattern in the small day-to-day interactions can be a great opportunity to safely assess Holes in your Horsemanship, refine, communicate, and build trust.
Fear Limiting our Horsemanship
The fear of "getting it wrong" can overwhelm people into doing nothing. Avoidance is a common "tactic" with both people and horses. The mental anticipation by the human can interfere with their ability to be present for their horse, having thoughts such as:
"Last time I tried to ___________ my horse __________ and I don't want that to happen again."
Horse Communication- Keeping it Simple
I had some upper level Dressage horses in one of my clinic sessions yesterday. Riders were talking about how they felt they kept having to "do more" and yet were getting less response from their horses.
Evolving Journey of our Horsemanship
Some days everything may go as planned and then there are days where nothing seems to be able to be accomplished. My personality is to "will" things to happen, but it has taken a lot of years and intention to realize that wasn't going to work when it came to the horses.
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