Curiosity in horses... a great place to start the Conversation.
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Many times when I'm teaching a student, if a tense moment arises, I will instruct them to pat their horse.
The theme of the past few days has been new folks asking for help with horses that are going "fine" and then the horse "randomly" or suddenly stops, or quits, moving forward.