Teaching your horse to move different body parts independently is important for body awareness, communication, finding balance and as the foundation for lateral movements such as shoulder-in or haunches-in. Basically, you’re teaching your horse to isolate different body parts and put it on cue so that you can ask for: Lateral Flexions – where your […]
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Leg-yield is the first lateral movement we train as it’s the easiest way to teach horses the concept of going forwards and sideways at the same time. In this video, I show you my simple approach to introducing leg-yield. I start on the ground making sure that my cues are clear and that Heather understands
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Listening to your horse means being able to read what he’s saying through his body language. Horses express fear, joy, confidence, anxiety, confusion and frustration through movements and actions – when you watch for these behavioural signs and respond to them, you start to open up the conversation between you and your horse. Even though
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Whoop whoop! I love a horsey adventure! The gallops at Middleham are up on the moors with fantastic views all round. It was a balmy summer evening, we had the place to ourselves and we even had a wonderful impromptu swim at the end. Since I was supposed to be in the South of France
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Backing a young horse for the first time is often seen as something dangerous and dramatic. Horses who aren’t prepared can panic, bucking bolting and rearing. But, it doesn’t have to be that way! I believe that horses should have a positive experience when someone sits on their back for the first time and this
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Horse agility is great for despooking, body awareness, variety, exercise and fun with your horse. This video shows how I work with horses at different stages in their agility training through a variety of obstacles. I’m training using positive reinforcement, which means that I use rewards for my horses, and I’m working at liberty. Weaving
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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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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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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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I was delighted to chat with Alexa again from the Whole Horse Podcast. In our first chat, we got into the principles of positive reinforcement training and discussed practical ways to build motivation, while keeping relaxation and bringing it into your everyday life with your horse. In this second episode, Alexa was asking all about
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Help your horse to overcome loading fear using these simulation exercises. They are perfect for breaking loading down into smaller steps for your horse so that you can keep the training calm and positive. You don’t even need a trailer or horsebox to do them. At Connection Training, our focus is always on keeping the
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It’s getting closer to book release time and to whet your appetite, here’s an interview we did with Tracy over on the Come Along for the Ride Podcast all about the Connection Training book. Here’s what Tracy had to say: “In this special episode I speak with Hannah and Rachel about their new book, Connection Training
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