Alternative Horsemanship™ with Samantha Harvey the Remote Horse Coach shares horse training and horseback rider coaching, philosophies, and approaches she has developed over three decades. Offering horsemanship clinics worldwide, distance horse coaching instruction, equine consultations, equine re-education and rehabilitation, colt starting, and lessons. Follow her #alternativehorsemanship on all social media platforms.
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Teaching the Horse or creating Unwanted Behaviors
Holes in the Horse's Education: Lightness vs Softness
Horse Training Help : Containment or Skills
Dear Sam: Horse Help Horsemanship Series
Tying the Horse: Are you teaching unwanted equine behaviors?
Horse Training Basics
Teaching containment or adaptability in the equine? So many unwanted equine behaviors are taught by human interactions that challenge the horse without ever teaching the horse the skills to think, search, try, and retain.
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Detrimental Patterned Human & Horse Interactions
Horse Training Discussing Pressure & Force Free
Weaponizing Horsemanship
Weaponizing Horse Communication
Horse Skills
"Following a Feel"
Those words had no value to me all the years I interacted with the horse unintentionally offering continuous tension- on the lead rope, on the rein, in my leg, etc. There was never any true release of pressure towards the horse (other than during a jump.)
Are you creating unwanted horse behavior?
Alternative Horsemanship the Remote Horse Coach shares insight into human interactions that can lead to unwanted equine behaviors.
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Holes in the Horsemanship
Holes in the Horsemanship
Horsemanship and Horseback Riding: Reviewing the Release
Reviewing the Release
Horse Tips: Perceptions of the Halt
Perceptions of the Halt
Many humans view the halt as physical yielding or obedience. There is little or no concept of the difference between the feet not moving versus a horse mentally present and physically relaxed when asked to stop.
What is Alternative Horsemanship?
Horse Goals vs Creating a Quality Equine Partnership
Horse Goals vs Creating Quality Equine Partnerships
What does Horsemanship mean? By Alternative Horsemanship the Remote Horse Coach
Horsemanship... (my random morning thoughts)
Isn't a "thing" or a fad... it is a mindset influencing a way of being.What is it like being a Horse Trainer? Thirty years later
Summer Hoofprints & Happenings Newsletter with Alternative Horsemanship
Get the latest scoop on Alternative Horsemanship clinics, the Equine Retreat, new courses added to the video catalog, upcoming clinics in Uruguay and Argentina, and more!
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Horse Learning- Are you helping or Hindering?
Learning how to Learn
I find the way most people offer information to the horse is with an expectation of tolerance by the equine.
Rarely is there any consideration for being able to influence the horse's focus, redirect his thoughts, help him let go of physical tension, or have many of the other tools needed so that he can learn how to think through the unfamiliar, rather than just tolerate it.
Why does it matter?
Because each interaction you're teaching the horse to either become more weary and distrustful of the human experience, or you're increasing his curiosity and building his confidence for all that you ask of him in the future.
The real motivation, even without acknowledging the horse and what he is experiencing, might come from asking oneself, "Wouldn't it be easier to set the horse up for success from the start, rather than having to undo unnecessary traumatic experiences and dangerous coping behaviors created because of hurried, unclear, and lack of quality human communication?"
Re-Introducing the Halter to the Fearful and Defensive Horse
Improving our Horsemanship- One Step at a Time
One Step at a Time
It is very easy to be overwhelmed by everything that "isn't" or is challenging, frustrating, and exhausting with the horse.