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Spooky and highly reactive horses

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End of the week thoughts... Someone was asking about a highly reactive Thoroughbred and how fix his spooking issues, even after he had been ...

Top 5 Questions and Answers with Alternative Horsemanship with Samantha Harvey

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Happy 2019! I hope your year is off to a great start.  Whether you're familiar with my teaching and training theories and methods are wo...

Holiday Season Gifts!

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Wishing everyone the start of a happy holiday season- let there be many rides through the snow! Looking for the perfect gift for that horse ...

All the right ingredients...

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Temps quickly dropped in the Pacific Northwest and summer is over... still enjoying the slightly warmer days now that the smoke has mostly c...

Pressure and release… The missing language of a quality partnership

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A majority of unwanted horse behavior stems from the animal responding with defensiveness towards any form of pressure.   Spatial and ph...

Confidence and Communication for the Trail Ride

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This time of year equine enthusiasts are excited to take advantage of the good weather and to enjoy the amazing scenery while riding in natu...

Rebuilding reasonableness in dangerous horses

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Do you have a "spooky/overreactive/hypersensitive/dramatic/flamboyant/neurotic/destructive" horse? You might want read my foll...

Making the "training" last

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I thought I'd share a blurb from recent correspondence with a client. She brought me a horse that was new to her and supposedly had year...