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What is Gymnastic Groundwork for Body and Mind? Healthy Movement, Happy Horse 🐎

Leave a Comment / Gymnastic Groundwork / By Hannah weston

If you’re looking for a clear, gentle and fun way to help your horse become sounder, straighter, more supple and balanced, this is for you. Gymnastic Groundwork helps your horse in these ways: #1 Stretch, Strengthen and Straighten #2 Improve Body Awareness and Proprioception #3 To solve problems like rushing, resistance, stiffness, one-sidedness, heaviness and […]

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Getting Started with In-Hand Work: Leading with Connection

2 Comments / Gymnastic Groundwork / By Hannah weston

In-hand work includes teaching collection and lateral exercises from a leading position, both at liberty and with a lead rope. So, step one is ensuring that your horse leads well (this is often missed and causes lots of in-hand work problems!). Leading with connection means that you and your horse are walking together, staying in

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Understanding Choice, Communication and Having a Conversation with Your Horse

1 Comment / Gymnastic Groundwork, Problem Solving, Training Theory and Techniques / By Hannah weston

What does it look like when your horse says, “no”? Do you then stop that activity completely? What does it mean to ‘have a conversation’ with your horse? This video shows a simple exercise with a lot going on! Sophie is working with her horse, Lily, clicker training her on a new water obstacle that

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How to Start Training the Archway/Hoop/Curtain for Despooking and Body Awareness

2 Comments / Gymnastic Groundwork, Problem Solving / By Hannah weston

Obstacles provide great challenges to improve your horse’s confidence and body awareness and the archway, hoop or curtain is a common obstacle in horse agility, trail classes and TREC. This video shows you how to introduce it to your horse in a way which is gentle, fun and builds your relationship. Spooky horses are scared

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What is Engagement? Try These Simple Exercises to Understand It.

4 Comments / Gymnastic Groundwork, Riding with Connection, Training Theory and Techniques / By Hannah weston

Healthy movement is key to a sound and happy horse. Engagement is part of healthy movement, necessary for keeping your horse sound and comfortable. Our domestic horses get such limited movement, even with ample turnout, compared to their wild counterparts, that we need to help maintain their physical fitness through training. In order to train

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Leading Your Horse on a Walk – Build Connection, Confidence and Body Awareness

3 Comments / Gymnastic Groundwork, Problem Solving / By Hannah weston

Can’t ride? Won’t ride? Leading out in-hand is a great way to introduce young horses to the world, build confidence in anxious horses and enrich the lives of unridden equines. Wild horses cover many miles each day over a wide variety of terrain, which naturally builds their fitness, body awareness and confidence to navigate any

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Moving Your Horse’s Shoulders When Riding (for balance, bending, circles, lateral etc)

2 Comments / Riding with Connection / By Hannah weston

Controlling the shoulders is important for so many exercises such as turning, circles and lateral work and improving connection with the shoulders improves your ridden communication as well as your horse’s balance and body awareness. Horses who lose balance or connection with the shoulders will often be heavier on one front leg than the other,

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How to get Confident and Connected Hacking Out on the Trail

2 Comments / Problem Solving, Riding with Connection / By Hannah weston

Getting out and about with your horse should be fun and enriching for both of you, but it can often be stressful and challenging instead. In this video, you’ll learn my training process for building calmness and confidence with your horse from the arena to riding out confidently. As always, the training is about how

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Horse Agility for Despooking, Body Awareness and Fun!

1 Comment / Gymnastic Groundwork, Tricks and Fun Stuff / By Hannah weston

If you’re looking for a fun and varied way to improve your horse’s fitness, proprioception and connection, horse agility and obstacle training could be just the thing for you. I love to work with obstacles because they give you and your horse a clear, focused task to figure out how you’re going to get around,

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How to Teach Your Horse to Stay Calm and STOP if the Saddle Slips

2 Comments / Problem Solving, Riding with Connection / By Hannah weston

Although we never want it to happen, accidents sometimes do and if the saddle slips it can easily panic the horse, making a bad situation much worse. Luckily, there are things you can train to help your horse understand that it’s nothing to worry about and even that he should stop quietly if the saddle

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Hoof Trimming with a Frightened and Aggressive Rescue Pony

1 Comment / Problem Solving / By Connection Training

Building trust with horses who have experienced neglect or abuse takes time and dedication. In this video, you’ll get to know Valiente, a pony rescued in Spain in terrible condition. CT Coach Claire Waldron worked patiently with him to help him overcome his fear and voluntarily participate in having his feet trimmed – it actually

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Horses wishing you a Merry Christmas! 🐴🎄

3 Comments / Tricks and Fun Stuff / By Connection Training

We hope you and your herd have a wonderful Christmas! This festive montage features CT horses from around the world. Joining Hannah and Rachel’s horses, we have CT Club members: – Bessie and Fernando from Australia (with Sarah) – Bonny and Pixie from the UK (with Nicola Ross) – Kali from the UK (with Barbara

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