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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.
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.
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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.
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Horse Learning- Giving you and your horse a gift
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.
Minful vs Mind Full Horse Interactions
For people who are new to my teaching and training theories, there are many questions and frequently a great deal of pondering and brooding as folks start to question “the way they’ve always done things” with their horses.
Explaining Horse Behavior - Raising Awareness
Alternative Horsemanship Word of the Day...
Over the years, I have developed my own lingo when I'm teaching students. I thought I would share some of the words that I bring up to make a point to students of what is often normalized or ignored, should not be part of the equine interaction. It can reflect defensiveness, tension, and anticipation in the horse.
Word of the Day: Accordion Effect
Shortening of the horse's topline: from the tips of the ears to the base of his neck, to the withers, through the back, along the top of the hindquarters, and down into the horse's hocks.
This creates stiff and resistant movement, with the stride short and choppy, similar to the upright movement of a sewing machine needle. The equine's step has a more up and down action rather than rhythmic, balanced, forward rotation in a relaxed manner. Often, there's a rocking or stepping back to go forward.
This reflects a horse that lacks a "forward-thought," with his entire body shortened, similar to that of an accordion.
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