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
Dear Sam: Horse Help Horsemanship Series *Preparing for Windy Day Conversations
What would our horse experience be like if...
Instead of holding on to:
-Hopefulness
-Waiting
-Passiveness
-Avoidance
-Surviving
-Self-Doubt
The GOAL was prioritizing Quality Communication with the Equine, and then presenting the Task?
Watch all NEW Dear Sam: Horse Help Horsemanship YouTube Series episode
*Preparing for Windy Day Conversations
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Also a reminder of the upcoming webinar "Horsemanship Help: What am I missing?" Starts Feb 5- (replay available if you can't join the live version) https://bit.ly/HorsemanshipWebinars for the registration link.
The Importance of Breath- Improving Horseback Riding Skills by Alternative Horsemanship
The Importance of Breath
Many times when I'm teaching a student, if a tense moment arises, I will instruct them to pat their horse.
This is not for the sake of being "touchy-feely," rather for the release that happens within the rider when they touch their horse.
Without realizing it, they will exhale the breath they'd been unintentionally holding.
This is not for the sake of being "touchy-feely," rather for the release that happens within the rider when they touch their horse.
Without realizing it, they will exhale the breath they'd been unintentionally holding.
Tips for Improving Horse Rider Balance by Alternative Horsemanship
Tips for Improving Rider Balance
So much of our horsemanship can be improved in the time spent bringing awareness to our behaviors and thoughts before we ever involve the horse.
The reality is most people don't have the option of enough time in the saddle. We are often disconnected from our thoughts, and we have very little body awareness.
Many of western society's daily routines involve our physical balance being brought forward and a bit "collapsed"- such as sitting at a desk, working at a computer, and often when driving a vehicle.
So much of our horsemanship can be improved in the time spent bringing awareness to our behaviors and thoughts before we ever involve the horse.
The reality is most people don't have the option of enough time in the saddle. We are often disconnected from our thoughts, and we have very little body awareness.
Many of western society's daily routines involve our physical balance being brought forward and a bit "collapsed"- such as sitting at a desk, working at a computer, and often when driving a vehicle.
California Horsemanship Clinic Learning Opportunities with Alternative Horsemanship
Horsemanship Clinic Learning Opportunities
Winding down another great clinic at Oakzanita Ranch in CA... With weather threatening to wreak havoc some days, through participant adaptability, I integrated remote and video sessions into the In-person Learning Opportunities...
Enthusiastic participants, thinking horses, a variety of scenarios, with a wide range of horses from OTTB to colts to rescues to re-education to refinement...
We don't stay in one place, practice one thing, or do anything you might "normally" see at a clinic... Adaptability, creativity, and stimulating learning environments (for both the horse and rider) to increase the human's understanding, awareness, clarity, communication, and confidence in how to best help and support their horse.
Winding down another great clinic at Oakzanita Ranch in CA... With weather threatening to wreak havoc some days, through participant adaptability, I integrated remote and video sessions into the In-person Learning Opportunities...
Enthusiastic participants, thinking horses, a variety of scenarios, with a wide range of horses from OTTB to colts to rescues to re-education to refinement...
We don't stay in one place, practice one thing, or do anything you might "normally" see at a clinic... Adaptability, creativity, and stimulating learning environments (for both the horse and rider) to increase the human's understanding, awareness, clarity, communication, and confidence in how to best help and support their horse.
Horsemanship Help: What am I missing Webinar by The Remote Horse Coach
Horsemanship Help: What am I missing?
Saturday, Feb 5, 11am MST
This 60-minute horsemanship webinar will address six common challenging aspects of the human/horse interaction that create miscommunication and defensiveness in the equine partnership.
Click the link for details https://bit.ly/HorsemanshipWebinars
Did you miss the previous webinar, Building Confidence in the Horse and Rider? You can watch it on the Video Catalogue here
Misbehavior inthe Horse- or Pain Issues?
Horses and Pain
Final post of the #horsehealth theme this week. Scroll my previous posts to read about sleep deprivation, nutrition, tack fit, development/maturity & starting young horses, and now I'll finish with the topic of pain.
Dear Sam: Horse Help *Equine Learning Opportunities- Getting the Most out of New Situations
Dear Sam: Horse Help Horsemanship Series
*Getting the Most out of Horsemanship Clinics
Sam discusses how potentially overwhelming or unfamiliar situations can evolve into quality learning opportunities.
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