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Learning Horse Skills or Tasks Dear Sam: Horse Help

Are you having problems with your horse's behavior? Trying to learn horse skills but getting unwanted equine responses?

Watch this horse learning video in the Dear Sam: Horse Help Horsemanship Series by Alternative Horsemanship™ The Remote Horse Coach that addresses commonly misunderstood and overlooked aspects of learning the horse skills needed to help create long-term changes in the horse's behavior leading to reasonable and safe interactions.

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4 Tips to Improve your Horse Skills

Are you breathing?

When people focus, they tend to hold their breath. Talk. Tell your horse what you are doing (literally, it also helps you keep track.) Sing to him or whistle. Anything!

Patterns

What's your pattern?

As folks beginning the new year, it is a great time to revisit assessing one's self-awareness to recognize where perhaps unintentional interactions negatively contribute to the horse's behavior and responses.

Reminder to join me in this horse learning livestream that will include a 12-minute video of examples of imposing human behaviors and learning to recognize defensive horse responses.

January 11, 2025 9am pdt Livestream REGISTER HERE

If you are unable to attend the live version, or missed last week's Horse Facial Feedback, you can replay all livestreams HERE

Reminder: after the live version has ended, it may take up to 12 hours before it appears in the Livestream Replays category.

Horse Training: Are you teaching fear?

Horse Training Problems and Unwanted Equine Behavior. Are you teaching the horse to be fearful?

In this horse learning video Alternative Horsemanship the Remote Horse Coach discusses how often in the horse training process people weaponize their groundwork creating unwanted responses in the horse.

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Horse Owners - Are you preparing your horse?

Horses & Emergencies

Horse Tips to Interrupt the Hurry in Your Equine Time

The simplest synopsis I offer students regarding time with their horse is that five minutes of quality communication has far more short and long-term value to the equine, than chaotic longer, "dutiful" by-the-clock sessions.

Learn Horse Behavior to Build Trust

Learn to build a horse's trust. Can you recognize the horse's communication?

Join Alternative Horsemanship™ while she is working in South America with a fearful Marchador horse in the latest equine behavior video teaching insight to develop your horse skills building the animal's trust and try.

Want to learn horse behavior? Join The Remote Horse Coach in the Reading the Horse 7-Part Equine Behavior Course

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Developing a Fulfilling Equine Experience

Mindset Motivation

I often share this quote as I work to help educate folks to be more supportive of their horses.

Horse Behavior Webinar Replay

Did you miss the Facial Feedback webinar?

You can watch it now and all future REPLAYS on the Alternative Horsemanship the Remote Horse Coach video catalog.

Learning Horse Skills

Horse Skills: Refining your Feel to improve your Communication

A major challenge for many horse enthusiasts is that there is SO much to learn in terms of understanding horse behavior and communication, never mind refining self-awareness, and then combining that with trying to learn how to offer a "common language" to communicate with the animal.
Of the many horse-related skills to learn, the concept of "following a feel" can be incredibly challenging. In many interactions, people focus on how a horse is moving, without acknowledging that "how" the human is asking will influence the outcome.

Alternative Horsemanship™ January Livestreams

Join Alternative Horsemanship™ the Remote Horse Coach for the January 4th, 2025, 9am pdt event hosted on the Remote Horse Coach video website. Approx 20-30 minutes. Replays available.

Equine enthusiasts will learn to recognize facial feedback from the horse reflecting fixation, fear, and anticipation leading to unwanted behaviors.

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Horse Learning Goals Tips and Insight by Alternative Horsemanship™

Horse Goals and Looking ahead to New Year
A lot of people have a lot going on in their lives, and limited time with the horse. I suggest to students to get a journal (no, you will not be writing pages and pages) to "track" their equine interactions. Writing experiences, thoughts, questions (it doesn't have to be coherent to anyone but you) can often help "organize" some of the chaotic thoughts and questions one may have about their equine interactions.

Simplifying Livestreams...

Over the last nine months of development, the Remote Horse Coach video catalog website has developed a Livestream Option. Starting January 2025, all Livestreams and replays will be viewed directly through the video catalog to simplify accessing content.

I've recently had quite a few older horsemen reach out in response after seeing some of the videos I have been posting, sharing "what" it can look like when we offer the horse time to think, search, and try. It has been the stimulus for private conversations with equine professionals worldwide as they struggle with their teaching abilities to convey (i.e. get owners to believe and commit to) the "how" to offer/give oneself permission (and the horse) time to observe, learn, experiment, try, process, grow, and evolve on their horse-learning journey.