The most weaponized "tool"
Learn horse behavior, communication, and improve horsemanship skills in weekly articles from Alternative Horsemanship™ with Samantha Harvey the Remote Horse Coach. Sharing her horse training philosophy developed over three decades. She coaches riders of all experience levels in clinics worldwide and offers distance horse coaching, instruction, and consults. Her horse video learning catalog has webinars, courses, classes and more. Subscribe on all social media platforms #alternativehorsemanship
Horse Herd Dynamics- Equine Behavior
Herd Dynamics
There is a continuous rotation of horses here on the farm as equines arrive from all parts of the country staying various lengths of time depending on their individual needs in their re-education and often rehabilitation.
Round Pen Conversations with the Young Horse by Alternative Horsemanship
Penny Lane was incredibly pushy and would literally run over the top of you.
Here is my version of how a round pen is a safe place for thoughtful Conversations with the horse.
It is about gaining mental availability in the horse to create physical softness.
If the Communication from the human isn't specific and clear, the pen often creates flee and defensiveness in the horse.
This can be a safe environment for the horse to learn how to acknowledge and check-in with the human, let go of distractions, learn how to search for what is being asked of them, and to keep trying even if they had a different idea.
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Horseback Riding: Directing the Horse's Thought vs. Making him Physically Comply
Alternative Horsemanship with Samantha Harvey shares a brief clip of riding Hjalmar the Fjord discussing the difference in directing the horse's thought vs. making him physically comply.
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Leading the young Horse with Clarity and Quality by Alternative Horsemanship
Alternative Horsemanship with Samantha Harvey the Remote Horse Coach shares a brief clip of her working with this 2-year-old Cleveland Bay mare who had a history of bolting and Kicking.
Sam prioritizes first getting the horse's mind, then asking for physical movement.
Everything in the Communication with the horse is a preface for Quality future interactions.
The first few sessions with this horse, Sam didn't even catch her as the young mare had no concept of personal space and was defensive towards pressure. Instead, she was worked with loose in the pasture to give her space and time to process and become mentally available.
Commonality in Conversations with Horses- it isn’t about Task Fixation
#SundaySimplicity
One of the themes of recent is discussing a positive alternative vs. a critique.
The Equine Retreat- An Alternative Horsemanship Event
The Missing Link in Equine Partnerships
For the last 25 years as an equine professional, Samantha Harvey has seen and helped riders worldwide. From addressing equine-related fear issues, rider insecurities, horse-related traumas, self-improvement, competitive equestrians, pleasure horseback riders, and everyone in between.
It became apparent to Sam that they all shared one common symptomatic frustration...
The feeling of not being "heard" by their horse. Irrelevant of their background or experience this single missing factor prevented quality communication between horse and human.
The missing link to being heard is first to learn to listen. In western society's fast-paced, multi-tasking approach, people easily get lost in the chaos of their thoughts, emotions, and stresses, which limit their availability to "hear" the equine partner.
This fundamental missing link leads to a multitude of unwanted scenarios and experiences with the horse.
The intention of The Equine Retreat is to create a unique, personal self-exploration opportunity to build skills and refine the equine partnership.
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