The quality of the relationship you have with your horse is important to you. I know because I feel the same and I’ve dedicated my career to finding the best ways to connect with horses. ‘Connection’, ‘relationship’, ‘bond’ etc are all words that are thrown around a lot in the horse world, and are often […]
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Despooking exercises for your horse should be calm, positive and fun for both of you. The aim is to build your horse’s confidence, calmness and connection with you no matter what you encounter – from giant spiders to fluttering ghosts (or from umbrellas to plastic bags in the real world!). This video features clips from
3 Top Tips to Despook Your Horse: Calm, Positive and Fun Training Read More »
[🎄It’s our Christmas Sale this weekend! Click here to find out more!🎄] The way you introduce positive reinforcement training to your horse can make a huge difference on how successful it is. The early lessons set the tone of the training – does your horse associate reward based training with feeling excited, anxious, frustrated or
Leonara is a spooky mare. And once she gets a fright, she is highly reluctant to try again at that place or with the thing that scared her. She does take a lot of comfort from people, though, and can be helped to work through her fears. Claire Waldron, Manager of the Connection Training Centre,
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Teaching horses to be calm, confident loaders and travellers is a big thing to us at CT. You never know when you might have to load your horse for the vet or to move him as well as to be able to travel him happily and stress-free any time. The good news is that it
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We’re delighted to introduce our 12 Qualifying Instructors from around the world! This talented group all came together last week for a live QI training course with the 3 of us (Shawna, Hannah and Rachel) at the Connection Training Centre in Spain. This course marks the half-way point of their year of CT Instructor training
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Our brand new Connection Training Centre opens for business on Sunday September 24th. We are very excited…champagne will flow! A year ago, we hadn’t even thought of the idea and now we have 9 horses (since our surprise baby mule was born two weeks ago), 20 acres for them to roam in and a renovated
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BLOG OF THE YEAR To finish off 2016, we’re all looking back at the year and choosing our favourite CT blog to watch again! I’ve chosen Rachel’s video about the SEEKING system – the emotional system in the brain which we trigger when training our horses. I really enjoyed the whole series on the emotional brain
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🎶 Deck the halls, tree and stables 🎶 Falalala la lala la la Who decorates the Christmas Tree at Hope Pastures rescue centre? The rescued ponies and donkeys of course! Hannah worked with the staff at Hope Pastures to teach these cuties some tricks to add Christmas cheer to the stables. “It’s pretty heartbreaking to see the state
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One of the things I always longed for was a horse who loved to ride as much as I did… A horse who came eagerly up to the mounting block, practically nudging me onto his back so we can ride off into the sunset together… A horse who gallops under my trapeze so I can
Amazing Mounting Montage – Does YOUR Horse Love to be Ridden? Read More »
Teaching any movement to your horse is fairly straightforward when you’ve taught all the elements needed to create it – things like weight shifts, flexions, moving the shoulders and quarters independently and so on. By breaking it down and teaching each movement separately, you can then combine them any way you like. Of course, using
Teaching the Pirouette – First Steps. Reward Based Training Read More »
This is a great question and one we get asked a lot. Many people coming to reward-based training have horses who already understand many different behaviors and they always want to know if they have to start training everything again from scratch. As always, the answer comes to down to emotions of the individual horse
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