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First steps on 2 horses

20:30

How I took Zorena and Whiskey on their first steps with me on them.

First ride on Zorena

15:30

An inside look into the preparation of getting Zorena ready to be ridden. This lesson covers the first time I sit on her.

Belly roping for awareness

24:04

This lesson started as a lesson to improve awareness on a sensitive mare. Techniques to teach using the belly rope and leading. Offering an alternative to a horse who can be quite distracted when something bothers her. It progressed into using the flag to interrupt her thoughts and improve her centredness.

Belly roping for starting

23:33

Using the belly rope to help prepare a sensitive horse for legs and a rider.

Long reins for awareness

09:50

Using the long reins in a horse that is very quiet, dull and reserved. Insights into why I am cautious around these reserved horses. How I use the long reins to get him to search and become more aware in some tight spaces.

Beverley feedback: learning to long rein

08:51

Helping with ground driving forward with one long rein. Some ideas to help improve clarity.

Stacey feedback: Bringing a horse back into work

16:55

After some time off, Stacey is bringing her horse back into work. Some ideas on how to improve ground work with circling and body control.

Keeping your horse's focus on trail

02:17

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.

Tacking: a short tip

03:36

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.

A tip if you get nervous out riding

01:44

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

How to get a horse to search - short exercise

01:02

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.

One Rein Start

01:51

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

Training to help the horses that sometimes won't load; are resistant to moving; and helping with lunging

39:04

What you need to do if your horse can do a pull back as it enters the float or if it sometimes won't load; if your horse is resistant to moving forwards or backwards both on the ground and under saddle; and advice for helping a horse in rehabilitation who needs to lunge big and small circles.

What to do in your training if your horse is nippy when you ask for a yield

17:11

Training that is needed for a horse that goes to nip or bite when asked to yield like taking a back up or moving the hind around.

Do sidepulls limit training capacity in any way? Is chewing good?

17:10

A brief look into the myth behind chewing and the TMJ: do sidepulls limit key opportunities in training and development?

Member feedback: 5th ride - turning and attentiveness

07:39

Feedback for a member who has started this horse under my training techniques. This is her 5th ride. A look into if the one rein start is going correctly.

Teaching the inside rein

25:51

A lesson showing the owner how to create better shape in the turns, lift the wither and loosen up the shoulders. After reading softness in the body and movement we work on soft transition to jog.

Improving focus and canter transition

33:22

Noah usually gets a long focus and can rush into the trot or canter. In this lesson, I get him to be more aware of me; more sensitive in the ribs; and help to improve his canter transition. I use rein control to soften him between transitions. Watch how I create sensitivity then manage it to bring soft energy and awareness into the transitions.

Introducing Ponying

10:26

This video offers good tips on how to help a young horse off another horse. It shows a safe way to expose both horses to each other whilst avoiding conflict. Learn techniques to lead a horse beside each other so the young horse can get familiar with being handled from above.

Feedback with variety of ground work exercises with a soft but unsure horse

08:00

Feedback for areas of improvement over different ground work sessions, particularly with the use of the rope.

Ground work Advice: an OTTB who is defensive aggressive leading in a circle; helping a filly pick up feet

23:20

Advice for an Off the Track mare who kicks and bites if asked to walk in a circle; and for a foal who may now be shut down after a bad trimming experience - how to retrain her to have her hooves picked up

Ridden solutions: advice for anxiety, a horse that won't go out the gate; and lost impulsion

23:01

Advice for situations under saddle: A new horse that refuses to go out of the gate; a mare that can get very high emotions and how to manage her at an event or show; and for a horse that is now understanding leg and rein aids well but contact leads to a lost impulsion at a trot

If your horse loads in but wants to back out

16:42

Tips to help with loading difficulties: when horses try to back out when you do up the breaching bar or tailgate; or don't want to load to go home. Also, how you can help a claustrophobic horse to stop feeling trapped.

Check: can your horse follow a feel in the back up?

01:01

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

Direct rein

00:50

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.

Check: can your horse lead well on both eyes

00:51

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

Check: processing us on both eyes

01:06

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

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