All Blog Posts Tagged 'partnership with horse' (11)

2 Questions to Help You Build an Empowered Partnership with Your Horse

Are you looking for a way to build a better partnership with your horse? Below are two simple questions that you can ask yourself to help release the tension and resistance between you and your horse. All frustration and resistance (the effect) really comes from a misunderstanding and miscommunication (the cause). If you can find a solution for the cause, you do not need a solution for every single behavior because they are all the effect of something deeper. You can learn to observe the…

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Added by Stef Perkins on June 1, 2013 at 4:47pm — No Comments

How is Soulful Horsemanship Different from Natural Horsemanship?

Natural horsemanship revolutionized the way that we interact with horses. Even if you do not follow one of the big natural horsemanship methods, you likely have some knowledge of them. I think that even individuals who say that they do not use natural horsemanship techniques have still been influenced, to some degree, in their approach to horses by the influence natural horsemanship has had on the attitudes of the industry. Even the non-equestrian culture has been made aware of this…

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Added by Stef Perkins on May 20, 2013 at 12:42pm — 8 Comments

Getting a Horse Present and Connected to Overcome Resistance

Last week I gave a lesson to a student of mine, Stephanie, who has a Welsh Cobmare that she has been driving and riding. The horse is very fearful and so shehad started doing the Uberstreichen Exercises and working on getting hercomfortable in her territory.

The problem I noticed with this mare was that although she was doing well withthe Waterhole Rituals™, when she was brought to the barn, she did not want…

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Added by Carolyn Resnick on December 22, 2010 at 10:00am — 1 Comment

Is Your Horse a Partner?

Is Your Horse a Partner?

By Lindsey Forkun, www.LFEquestrian.com

There are many different styles of training and working with horses. Some people fawn over their horses with praise and affection, others take a more military style approach with defined boundaries and little affection, and most people fall somewhere in between.

Natural horsemanship professes a balance of boundaries and praise. Horses that…

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Added by Lindsey Forkun on December 21, 2010 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Natural Horsemanship Solutions: Join Up

Join Up – get your horse to catch you!

Have you ever gone into the paddock to catch your horse and your horse keeps running away from you?

Do you ever head to the paddock…

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Added by Lindsey Forkun on August 29, 2010 at 8:00am — No Comments

Natural Horsemanship Solutions: The Power of Non-Demanding Time

Please Like Me! The Power of Non-Demanding Time

Develop the Partnership you have always dreamed for!

You can force horses to do many things, but forcing a horse to like and trust you is impossible. A horse…

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Added by Lindsey Forkun on August 27, 2010 at 12:00pm — 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

Building That Vital Connection with Your Horse, part 2

In my previous blog post, we looked at how the interactions wild horses use within a herd to maintain harmony and unity can also be used by us humans to help develop a horse’s character in the same way.

Now let’s look at the different personality types within the society of wild horses and how that applies to our relationship with horses and what we can learn.

In nature, the spectrum of the equine personality goes from “submissive” to “dominant” but at the top… Continue

Added by Carolyn Resnick on January 13, 2010 at 7:00am — 1 Comment