Alternative Horsemanship™ with Samantha Harvey the Remote Horse Coach teaches horse behavior, horse training, and coaches horseback riders of all experience levels. Offering horsemanship clinics worldwide, distance horse coaching instruction, horse video learning catalog, equine consultations, equine re-education and rehabilitation, colt starting, and lessons. Follow her #alternativehorsemanship on all social media platforms.
The Human Agenda & Horse Problems
The Human Agenda can often create blinders towards the Horse's Communication for so many who interact with equines.
Horses withe Human Problems- Dear Sam: Horse Help
Dear Sam: Horse Help Horsemanship Series
"Horses with people problems"
Learn what may be creating unwanted, excessive, dramatic, or dangerous behaviors and reactions from the equine.
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Assessing & Understanding Equine Behavior
*Assessing the Horse -Understanding Equine Behavior & Eliminating the Guessing
Dear Sam: Horse Help Horsemanship Series
Learn how to recognize the horse's communication to understand equine behavior, what to address to build his trust, and how to improve reasonable behaviors.
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Horses Mirroring Human Tension
Learn how physical tension in the human limits quality equine communication with the horse that creates fearful, reactive, unwanted, and defensive horse behaviors. All new Dear Sam: Horse Help Horsemanship Series sharing trainer tips
*Tension Limiting Quality Communication with the Horse
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Understanding Unwanted Horse Behavior
Horses don't just "do" that...
What if we recognized and addressed the initial signs of concerned, fearful, or defensive equine behaviors before they erupted into things like:
Bucking
Bolting
Kicking
Spooking
"Over-reaction"
Biting
Fixating
Fleeing movement
Biting at the Air
Pawing
Jigging
Stomping
Weaving
Horse Problems- When things dont go as planned
Horse Problems- When things don't go as planned
Some days everything may go as planned with the horse, and other days nothing does. My personality is to "will" things to happen; it has taken a lot of years and daily intention to realize that approach wasn't going to work when it came to my interactions with horses.
Refining Horse Communication : Dear Sam: Horse Help
Dear Sam: Horse Help Horsemanship Series
Refining the Horse Communication
Horse Trainer advice to improve horse communication, increase awareness and understanding of equine behaviors, and acknowledge mental and emotional changes in animal reflected in his
Are you teaching your horse to Quit?
Are you teaching your horse to Quit?
Nothing is random when a horse does it. You may not know why the horse did it, but very rarely was it not intentional...
Horsemanship- Helping vs Challenging the Horse
Dear Sam: Horse Help Horsemanship Series
Helping vs Challenging the Horse
Learn the difference between helping your horse versus offering communication that creates fearful, reactive, and defensiveness behaviors.
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Eliminating the Hurry to Improve your Horsemanship
In western society, people tend to hurry, and unintentionally carry their chaos into their horsemanship.
Their self-imposed urgencies of task accomplishment often become the focal point, rather than prioritizing the Quality of Communication with the horse. The general unspoken standard of "if the horse's behavior doesn't scare me, we're still okay," leaves many horses in the gray area during a majority of human interaction. If the horse "mostly" complies, the tendency is to add more to what is being asked of him.
Their self-imposed urgencies of task accomplishment often become the focal point, rather than prioritizing the Quality of Communication with the horse. The general unspoken standard of "if the horse's behavior doesn't scare me, we're still okay," leaves many horses in the gray area during a majority of human interaction. If the horse "mostly" complies, the tendency is to add more to what is being asked of him.
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