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This is a horse who hasn't been ridden for a few years. I wanted to help with his obvious nervousness of people - before I even considered how he was under saddle. This series follows how I started to create an adjustment in his thoughts towards people and energy. He is of course, a horse that has had driving pressure. This is how I helped replace these negative associations. Day 1: helping him to understand that my energy doesn't mean go - that I am not a threat.

After the previous liberty lesson, I move to putting a rope on him to start to teach him to guide. The rope changes how he feels and you can see he wanting to move away from me a lot. This lesson is about replacing old memories and also starting new ones; reviewing some of the areas we have worked on again and testing his reaction to new changes.

Meet Toby's horse - head-shy horse with a strong tendency to freeze and brace in his chest. Instead of merely desensitizing the head, we focused on the understanding that it was a visual stimulant that caused the brace. Techniques to soften and unfreeze. Improving bridling: techniques that introduce equipment as part of a broader lesson in softness and mobility.

Day 2: Foot handling turns into a lesson in removing brace throughout the entire body. Rather than immediately picking up feet, Toby works on leading, moving backward and forward, softening the shoulders, allowing touch while moving, and handling the legs without triggering pullback. By the end, the horse can have his legs handled and repositioned more softly, with the lead on the ground.

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

This horse has a tendency to strike out to things in front of him. He has done this to a hose previously. He preloads his hindquarter ready to go. So, to fix this, I want to encourage him to move away from danger.

Tips for where to begin with a horse that has been mouthed and backed but not ridden; what to do when a green horse walks off doing up the girth; and advice for a young horse that is starting to show anxiety travelling

Specific training advice to help a horse to be more responsive in the reins; when is a good time to take a 5 yr old horse on a trail ride with a group? And what to do when your horse doesn't cope being at the back of a trail riding group.

Advice for a Shetland pony that is particularly nose and mouth shy after aggressive health treatment; a horse that tosses its head under saddle; a horse that nips when its rug is taken off; and for another horse that still chomps the bit.

Explaining an Eye Brace, Shutting Out, a Reset, the Right Mindset, the Worry Cup - and how to return to the right mindset

Normal horse behaviour or something we should curb? Mark answers questions on nipping when a horse is in rehabilitation; looking around nervously on a trail ride; is it okay if a horse doesn't want to work in an arena? Also - how to help a horse that gets anxious the further away it gets from home.

Continuing the training with this young mare, who can have a tendency to be hyper focused. Getting her to process me behind her eye. In depth, feature length lesson - encouraging the mare to be engaged in the lesson, thinking and responsible. I introduce the saddle blanket and a belly rope also. Great lesson for anyone re educating or educating a horse.

This is a mare who has her two year old filly close by - but has a lot of separation anxiety with horses. The mare has had a lot of pressure in her past, which worried her - and led her to her being sour or shutting out. She holds onto strong thoughts. This is a lesson where I help her to become soft and present; before going to the daughter and helping her with the same thing. Lots of ideas to help with separation anxiety.

Virtual Lesson helping the owner with a green horse maintain a forward thought from behind the wither, in preparation for riding.

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.

This gelding has been deprived of pasture as a yearling and has food aggression. His owner has been working on improving his behaviour around food - with some great progress - but he is still pushy and not soft. Tips in for this particular scenario.

This OTT is much happier since her owner has been using my techniques but she is still finding he drops out in forward, particularly in the leading past the shoulder. There is also brace when she comes forward. Tips to help the owner with her technique.

Checking on some groundwork techniques, including shoulder yields that show this OTT getting nippy.