The Human Agenda can often create blinders towards the Horse's Communication for so many who interact with equines.
Alternative Horsemanship™ Horse behavior help, equine communication, groundwork and rider mindset. Understand the horse and develop quality horse skills to address sources vs symptoms of unwanted equine behavior.
Horses withe Human Problems- Dear Sam: Horse Help
Dear Sam: Horse Help Horsemanship Series
"Horses with people problems"
Learn what may be creating unwanted, excessive, dramatic, or dangerous behaviors and reactions from the equine.
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Assessing & Understanding Equine Behavior
*Assessing the Horse -Understanding Equine Behavior & Eliminating the Guessing
Dear Sam: Horse Help Horsemanship Series
Learn how to recognize the horse's communication to understand equine behavior, what to address to build his trust, and how to improve reasonable behaviors.
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Horses Mirroring Human Tension
Learn how physical tension in the human limits quality equine communication with the horse that creates fearful, reactive, unwanted, and defensive horse behaviors. All new Dear Sam: Horse Help Horsemanship Series sharing trainer tips
*Tension Limiting Quality Communication with the Horse
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Understanding Unwanted Horse Behavior
Horses don't just "do" that...
What if we recognized and addressed the initial signs of concerned, fearful, or defensive equine behaviors before they erupted into things like:
Bucking
Bolting
Kicking
Spooking
"Over-reaction"
Biting
Fixating
Fleeing movement
Biting at the Air
Pawing
Jigging
Stomping
Weaving
Horse Problems- When things dont go as planned
Horse Problems- When things don't go as planned
Some days everything may go as planned with the horse, and other days nothing does. My personality is to "will" things to happen; it has taken a lot of years and daily intention to realize that approach wasn't going to work when it came to my interactions with horses.
Refining Horse Communication : Dear Sam: Horse Help
Dear Sam: Horse Help Horsemanship Series
Refining the Horse Communication
Horse Trainer advice to improve horse communication, increase awareness and understanding of equine behaviors, and acknowledge mental and emotional changes in animal reflected in his
Are you teaching your horse to Quit?
Are you teaching your horse to Quit?
Nothing is random when a horse does it. You may not know why the horse did it, but very rarely was it not intentional...
Horsemanship- Helping vs Challenging the Horse
Dear Sam: Horse Help Horsemanship Series
Helping vs Challenging the Horse
Learn the difference between helping your horse versus offering communication that creates fearful, reactive, and defensiveness behaviors.
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Eliminating the Hurry to Improve your Horsemanship
In western society, people tend to hurry, and unintentionally carry their chaos into their horsemanship.
Their self-imposed urgencies of task accomplishment often become the focal point, rather than prioritizing the Quality of Communication with the horse. The general unspoken standard of "if the horse's behavior doesn't scare me, we're still okay," leaves many horses in the gray area during a majority of human interaction. If the horse "mostly" complies, the tendency is to add more to what is being asked of him.
Their self-imposed urgencies of task accomplishment often become the focal point, rather than prioritizing the Quality of Communication with the horse. The general unspoken standard of "if the horse's behavior doesn't scare me, we're still okay," leaves many horses in the gray area during a majority of human interaction. If the horse "mostly" complies, the tendency is to add more to what is being asked of him.
Horses and Safety- the skill of "Doing Something"
"Doing something"
Reduce the chances of horse related accidents by learning to proactively communicate and interaction builds quality partnerships, increases safe horse handling experiences, decreases the equine's fear, and defensiveness.
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Horse Problems - I want it NOW
I was teaching a session yesterday at a clinic, a new student was filling in a last-minute opening and had been unable to trailer her horse to the facility. She asked to do an unmounted session focusing on her body awareness and aid usage while in the saddle- without the horse. Many horse people would probably balk at the thought of paying to participate in a clinic without a horse.
How to Choose a Horse Trainer
Tuesday Trainer Tips- How to Choose a Horse Trainer
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Horseback Riders and Equine Enthusiast Tips- Stop overwhelming Yourself
It is very easy to become overwhelmed by everything that "isn't" or is challenging, frustrating, and exhausting with the horse.
Unrealistic expectations, hopefulness and continuously comparing ourselves or our horses to what "everyone else" is/can do, is detrimental to the Quality of our interactions and leads to less-than-ideal scenarios.
I wish more folks gave themselves permission to literally and figuratively focus on being present and addressing themselves and their horse in small segments. Each segment of Clarity in Communication can connect to the next, which influences how the "final" piece of accomplishment is experienced by the horse.
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