Dear Sam: Horse Help Horsemanship Series
Horse Training & Pressure
Discussing horses, human communication using pressure and thoughts on force free approaches.
Do you have horse behavior questions? Do you want to improve horse horse skills? Alternative Horsemanship™ with Samantha Harvey the Remote Horse Coach shares her horse training philosophy and coaches horseback riders of all experience levels. Offering horsemanship clinics worldwide along with distance horse coaching, instruction, and consults. Visit her horse video learning catalog offering webinars, courses, classes and more. Find her on all social media platforms #alternativehorsemanship
Does your horse understand your communication?
Dear Sam: Horse Help Horsemanship Series
Does your horse understand your communication?
Alternative Horsemanship the Remote Horse Coach trainer discusses how your horse may not understand your communication creating unwanted equine behaviors.
Horse Help- Problems with Mindless Horse Training Methods
I am the first to admit that I’m quite resistant to “step by step” methods of training.
I find that although what/how you ask something of your horse may “seem initially clear” with a one, two, or three type of instruction, due to the focus on the end goal, it also limits a person’s perspective in seeing what is ACTUALLY happening in what I call “real-time.”
Weaponizing Horsemanship
Weaponizing Horse Communication
The Horse's Behaviors reflect their mental and emotional state. How often are you critical, demanding, and inserting a human emotional filter without considering what the equine is experiencing during the interaction?
4 Horse Rider Tips with Alternative Horsemaship
4 Horse Rider Tips
Are you breathing?
When riders 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!
Horse Help Concepts- The Box an Alternative Horsemanship tool
The "Box"
I developed the concept of "the Box" because I was finding too many people wanting to be polite and kind in their communication with their horses, but were lacking specificity, boundaries, or spatial awareness.
The concept of the Box was to give the humans a mental image of where they needed their horse to be to communicate clearly without being distracted by the horse's counteroffers of often leaking, fleeing, drifting, or pushing into them movement.
Horse Tips and Skills Alternative Horsemanship Series
Join Alternative Horsemanship the Remote Horse Coach in this new Horse Tips & Skills series addressing a variety of overlooked opportunities in the horse interaction to improve adaptability, build confidence, increase self-awareness, refine intention, and specific communication.
Subscribe to the Alternative Horsemanship YouTube Channel for this ongoing series.
Horse Help- Improving your Equine Communication- Eliminating the Brace
Heavy on the lead rope- "dragging" the horse around?
Loading or unloading a horse from the trailer/lorry that you couldn’t “stop” or “move him” to a different place from what he was offering?
The horse would not move out of your personal space when working from the ground?
The horse was resistant to transitions whether being worked from the ground or in the saddle?
The horse is pushing, leaning, heavy, or dragging on the bit/bridle?
When trying to turn in one direction the horse slowly “leaks” the opposite way?
When trying to ride a straight line the horse is constantly “throwing” or “locking up” his shoulder or hip towards the opposite way from which you are traveling?
Picking up the reins and feeling a general “lethargic” response from your horse?
Are you overwhelming your horse?
Dear Sam: Horse Help Horsemanship Series
Is your horse overwhelmed?
Watch the full video and hundreds of others on the Alternative Horsemanship YouTube Channel.
What topics would you like discussed?
Horse Evacuations & Equine Emergency
Alternative Horsemanship Tips for Evacuation Preparedness
Emergency Evacuation Video 1
https://youtu.be/52RflMZoP4w
Emergency Evacuation Video 2
https://youtu.be/jRCmOTq9mto
Pushy or Charging Horses
Dear Sam: Horse Help Horsemanship Series
Pushy and Charging Horses
Discussing Aggressive, Charging, "Pushy" Equine Behavior, what creates it, and where the human interaction begins to create safe boundaries.
Watch on the Alternative Horsemanship YouTube Channel. New videos every Friday.
Click the link to watch now along with the hundreds of others addressing common horse and human challenges and problems.
Horses and Pressure 3-part Alternative Horsemanship Livestream
Horses & Pressure: Part 1 Spatial Pressure
Discussing many of the commonly overlooked and unintentional human communication that creates avoidant, defensive, and unwanted equine behaviors.
Alternative Horsemanship Livestream
Saturday August 12th 9am pst
Replays Available
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Horse Skills : Position Alternative vs Critical Communication
Positive Alternatives vs. Critical Commentary
Most riders focus on what they don't want their horse to do and attempt to "block," drive, or reprimand the horse in what they consider is the moment of unwanted behavior (more often they are responding to symptoms vs root causes.)
If they are reacting to only the big and obvious physical movements of the horse, they are missing all the initial Opportunities to check-in with the horse's mental availability and directability which influences his behaviors.
Horse Tack Tack the Sidepull
The Remote Horse Coach shares tips in her Dear Sam: Horse Help Horsemanship Series on her Alternative Horsemanship YouTube Channel in the Tack Talk video discussing using a sidepull.
Mental Distractions and Anticipations in the Horse Interactions
Mental Distractions & Anticipations
Many people get triggered by distractions and mentally go far away from where they are with their horse as they get lost in their "stories" of what ifs, history of previous experiences, or anticipation of what might potentially happen.
The Human's Intention and Equine Interactions
For years I mindlessly caught, led, and tacked up the horse.
Human Emotions and Horse Behaviors
Dear Sam: Horse Help Horsemanship Series
Human Emotions and Horse Behavior
Sharing insight into how horseback riders purging their emotions, being mentally distracted, and offering chaotic communication leads to unwanted horse interactions, increases the horse's resistance, and builds his defensiveness.
Click the video to watch the latest episode on the Alternative Horsemanship YouTube Channel.
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