Short Tips for a Great Foundation

Covering a quick refresher on the importance of eyes, intention, and our body language when we move around our horses.

What does your horse do around something scary? Here's how to help get the response that you want - which is getting past it thoughtfully and safely.

Understanding how different horses might need leading in different positions. Remember: they need to be aware of where you are. Check their understanding in leading to know when they are ready for the next stage of leading.

Trusting feel will lead to less of a release brace. Keep the motions in flow - increasing and decreasing rather than dropping out.

Tips to be accurate in your direct leading rein. Watch how I pick the reins UP and OUT so you can get a good clear turn. Watch their thoughts - you want them to be thinking into the turn.

This is something I would encourage you to do every day which helps to keep your horse's processing ability soft, equal and centred.

My training tip to get this to work better than you going down their sides.

A training tip that will help you on trail to keep your horse's thoughts present with you. This can avoid tunnel vision and trail rides that forget to have a conversation.

Being aware of where your horse's thoughts might be and how to work with this. Understanding why tacking works. I find that it helps for them to come back into centre with me without using technique (like pushing) that makes them want to be further from you.

How to undo hyper-focus into direction towards their thoughts. This is a short exercise to do but it is a great one to do with any horse.

Short training details that make all the difference - this is how and why I use the one rein start

This is just something that I use to help me to get past my nerves on a horse. Hope it helps!