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.
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.
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Helping the defensive horse
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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?
As with everything, there are many interpretations when it comes to the terminology associated with horses. I try to be clear and precise in the words that I'm offering, but there still can be a gray area in the human student's understanding. This often comes from their level of awareness, background, and unintentional anticipation/expectation of their mind "getting ahead" of wherever they are currently at with their horse.
Join Alternative Horsemanship with Samantha Harvey for the Following a Feel Livestream
Discussing the everyday, overlooked opportunities during the horse interactions that either refine the equine's mental and physical directability or unintentionally teach the horse to avoid and be defensive toward human communication.
Saturday, April 13th at 5pm pst.
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Dear Sam: Horse Help Horsemanship Series
Horse Problems, Unwanted Equine Behavior & Uncomfortable Discussions
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Ponying the Horse- Continuing Quality Conversations
I find when ponying, many folks focus on getting the ponied horse to follow the movement of the ridden one. This can create mindless movement in the ponied horse and contributes to what seems to willingly compliance (as long as nothing specific is asked of him) but he is not thoughtful, mentally directable, or physically adaptable.
