Face Your Riding Fears
…understanding of what’s happening, and gaining that understanding is the most important thing you can do in dealing with any problem.) The questions I’ll be asking will require some introspection…
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Dressage for Children
…to the most sophisticated understanding of equitation and its impact on their equine partner. Phase I is divided into two stages. Stage 1 asks the rider to focus on “the…
The Right Horse, the Right Instructor
…beginner’s instructor, she notes, offers a holistic approach to horsemanship that includes understanding, handling, and caring for horses properly?rather than simply riding. Where to look. With your child’s goals in…
The Best Reward is a Built-in One
…want a horse’s understanding of my actions to feel so good that a reward–or praise for ‘putting up with me’ during a ride or in a groundwork session–is just not…
Putting Movement Together (Part I)
…now you and your horse have achieved a mutual understanding of the basics of movement: yielding backwards, yielding the hindquarters, and yielding the forequarters; and can do the exercises equally…
Controlling Movement (Part I)
…is unresponsive or excessively reactive has been taught those behaviors-and had them reinforced– by their human handler. Without a proper understanding of when to apply pressure and when to release…
Feel Your Horse’s Footsteps
…his work with the martial arts. As a black belt in aikido, he has an understanding of how awareness in our lives and our horsemanship can bring us a more…
Horse Clinic Cafeteria
…whether it’s basic training, problem solving, dressage or barrel racing. Though we naturally gravitate to someone of our own discipline or philosophy, watching trainers with other styles helps our understanding…
Training with Gunnar Ostergaard
…my Morgan stallion, London, with international dressage trainer Gunnar Ostergaard at Deerwood, his Vermont farm. I came away with better understanding of, and communication with, my horse. My riding improved…
Farewell Beloved Rym and Ila
…who has made the ultimate contribution possible in the name of science and the betterment of our understanding of our environment. May his contribution be a keystone to the solid…