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
What does Quality with the horse mean to you?
What do you consider as Success?
How often do you consider how the horse's mind and emotions influence his physical responses, versus fixating on containing his movement?
Where is your focus, and are you mentally present and available to acknowledge and address the horse?
Are you willing to let go or adapt your original goal whether temporarily, short or even long-term, to prioritize building trust, try, and willingness in the horse?
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Dear Sam: Horse Help Horsemanship Series
Is the Horse Training building the horse's trust or creating a dysfunctional, fearful, anticipative equine?
Many horse enthusiasts struggle with finding the balance in how to work with the horse. In this horse learning video, Alternative Horsemanship the Remote Horse Coach discusses how the human's lack of clarity in their communication can leave the horse struggling and resorting to unwanted behaviors. This episode addresses the common horse rider's problem of passively interacting with the horse diminishing his willingness and try.
Click the link to watch on the Alternative Horsemanship YouTube Channel.
Helping the defensive horse
Watch on the Alternative Horsemanship YouTube Channel. New videos are posted every Friday.
Tips for the Insecure or Timid Rider
What about building the rider's confidence for riding out?
Reactive Riding
When people sit down in that saddle their brain tends to focus solely on themselves. Instead, if they treated their horse-like they were "on the same team" and told the horse what the PLAN was ahead of time, the horse would have a better chance of offering the desired response toward the rider.
One of the most misused "techniques" I have found is how people present asking the horse to move around a circle.
How often does your focus "leave" as you are nearing the end of a session with the horse? Mentally moving on to something else?
