All Blog Posts Tagged 'partnership' (12)

Carrots Aren’t Enough.

We’ve had a lot of company at the farm lately. Sometimes I take them into the family pen. The Grandfather Horse is there with his goat, Arthur. Edgar Rice Burro peers from under his eyebrows as he begins the suave stroll…

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Added by Anna Blake on March 11, 2016 at 7:07am — No Comments

New Eyes on the Same Ordinary Stuff

I’ll tell you about how the first follow happened. She was a young barn-rat of a girl. You know the…

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Added by Anna Blake on January 8, 2016 at 8:30am — No Comments

Listening with Your Seat.

How’s your derrière? Is posterior a more delicate word than rump? Our culture has a lot of fanny chatter: too flat, too round, somehow sagging. Riders should care less about the superficial “do these white breeches make my butt look big?” and…

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Added by Anna Blake on September 18, 2015 at 10:19am — No Comments

Natural Instinct: The Human Half

The more we riders understand about horse instinct, the better. Instinct is the starting place; a behavioral baseline from which other trained behaviors are built. So we study wild horses to find out what their language is like, how they experience family dynamics, and what it means…

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Added by Anna Blake on August 7, 2015 at 9:00am — No Comments

An Equine Cure for a Type-A Personality.

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Added by Anna Blake on February 27, 2015 at 9:13am — No Comments

Part One: Thanksgiving Every Day.

I saw the first holiday decorations come out a few days before Halloween. I did not burst into a rousing rendition of Here Comes Santa Claus. Christmas is not my holiday.

Thanksgiving is my holiday; low expectations and high reward factors. It is a holiday…

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Added by Anna Blake on November 4, 2011 at 9:30am — No Comments

5 Easy Ways to Build Trust with Your Horse: Tip 4

4. Encounter Wait, Revisit

Some horses are naturally braver than other, and some horses tend to be fairly skittish and flighty. Horses can become more confident when they are exposed to many different things – when they associate positive

experiences with the different objects/ environments.

Getting your horse to touch different objects is one way to build confidence. Provided the…

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Added by Lindsey Forkun on November 11, 2010 at 3:30pm — No Comments

The Importance of a Flexible Leadership Style

Connection is a two way street. To truly get along with a horse in shared partnership we need to have social leadership skills. If we can keep adjusting our leadership style to be more flexible, understanding and intelligent, the horse is more willing to form a loyal partnership and put greater effort into his performance. It’s all about being present in the moment and fully awake and knowing exactly what to ask a horse to do that…

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Added by Carolyn Resnick on August 11, 2010 at 10:00am — 1 Comment

Creating Attentive Partnerships

Previously I was talking about horsemanship, trust and connection, which led me to ask the question about what you would like your partner to be like. Now the reason I asked this was, and this is going to sound a bit out of place, but a horse wants to be treated like a woman wants to be treated.…

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Added by Carolyn Resnick on August 4, 2010 at 10:00am — 2 Comments

Adjusting Your Leadership to Keep Attention

If you can keep adjusting your leadership to be more dependable, flexible, understanding and intelligent, the horse is more willing to form a loyal partnership and put a greater effort into his performance. The biggest mistake people make in their relationship and communication with horses is to not understand that the development of leadership with horses should be spent in managing the connection, bond and trust through…

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Added by Carolyn Resnick on July 28, 2010 at 10:00am — 1 Comment

Equitable Partnerships through Leadership

If you lead your horse in the moment and he feels a companionship connection, it inspires him to follow your lead like music inspires a dancer to dance. I have focused my life on figuring out how to get a horse to accept my friendship and for it to be as strong as the friendship he shares with other horses. From studying herd behavior, I have gained this connection by getting a horse to accept me as a family member and trusted…

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Added by Carolyn Resnick on July 21, 2010 at 10:00am — No Comments

Horses....understanding Partnership

So you are on your way to the barn. It's a beautiful day, and you have a perfect vision of what your ride will be like. You envision your horse standing at the gate waiting for your arrival, excited to leave his friends and hay, and to come inside and hang out with you.

When you get to the barn your horse has its hindquarters facing you, his head buried in the hay and all…

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Added by Gail Haynes on March 2, 2010 at 1:30pm — 1 Comment