Showing posts with label Horse rider tension. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Horse rider tension. Show all posts

Human Skills- Tips for Releasing Tension (Mounted or Unmounted)

When learning horse skills, many people focus on the mechanics to get the horse’s obedience or compliance, with little to no self-awareness of how their mindset and behaviors will influence the equine's responses. Anticipative, hopeful, or distracted thoughts decrease the ability to reset breathing and release tension in real-time, limiting one's adaptability to help the horse. 

Horse Skills & Tips : Breath and Tension

 Tips for Resetting your Breathing and Releasing Tension at the Halt



Without realizing it, many riders hold their breath quite frequently when interacting with or riding the horse.


This unintentional simple act creates continuous containment of the horse due to the rigidity the human then carries in their body causing constant chaotic, miscommunication with the horse.