Get to Know Your Horse, Part I: Tuning In & Becoming Mindful
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- čas přidán 1. 04. 2021
- As the late and great Tom Dorrance said: “You can’t teach feel you have to experience it.”
This month I am dedicating videos each week to the principles of getting to know your horse when developing, educating, or taming.
I will be selecting one major perspective each week, focusing on what’s important to our horse’s confidence as a learner while we create positive learning experiences.
For today’s video “Training Success in 5-minutes or Less” and our first principle, our “training” will focus on the first building block to getting to know your horse: learning how to be mindful of how they feel about what you are doing.
We all want to learn how to read horses and understand who they are and why they do what they do. This is paramount to training and how we begin creating connection, relationship, and trust in our horses.
As the late and great Tom Dorrance said: “You can’t teach feel you have to experience it.”
Feeling of and for our horses is important to creating the mindset, attitude and empathy needed to connect with them.
When a horse feels understood, they drop their defenses and open, allowing us to really get to know who they are in their heart, how they think and behave.
Learning this way of Being and working with horses is magical and where we open the door to all possibilities.
I’d also like to leave you with this mantra “Make every moment with your horse purposeful and teachable.”
If you would like to learn how to develop your horse holistically and classically, I offer a step-by-step guide in both my Spirituality of Horsemanship Course and MasteryMembership Riding Foundation Program. Please click here for details www.taoofhorsemanship.com.
I’m sorry, I can’t help but crack up laughing seeing how tiny the bareback pad is on Zor😂
He is ginormous! Everything next to him, on him, looks small in comparison.
@@TaoofHorsemanship I know!! I love it! He’s just such an awesome horse! I mean, they ALL are! You do right by them & it shows! It means a lot to me when people like you spread knowledge & education & use your platform as a voice for the horse.
My horse is coming along ssooo well, I am stoked. I open the gate to let him into a new paddock thinking he would race through ,but no, he came over to hang out with me. Completely different horse from the one that arrived six months ago..
Hi Andrea and Welcome! That's awesome to hear! What have you been doing/learning/teaching to keep him so connected?
@@TaoofHorsemanship I listened to you .then I listened to him
Ha! I'm like the pony. Need to learn to handle being around intense energy that isn't directed at me.
Hi Jewelweed, welcome! Caroline can help you :)
Check out our website at www.taoofhorsemanship.com/ and for any questions you might have email us at Sabrina@taoofhorsemanship.com.
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Sabrina
LOVE IT.... make vs want to..... & as you know we all need to be linear thinkers instead of direct line thinkers ,,,
Zor doesn't need a hammer..
Lmao 🤣...
Ez too see Zor loves 💘 his mom..
Haha look at the little pony next to the giant dinosaur lol
Do you still do clinics? I wish I could be a fly on the wall at your place, just to observe 😊
Yes I do clincis, or small group immersions/intensives. This year has been dedicated to my online students, members of my Mastery Program. Mostly because my work is so detailed and layered. Anyone outside of my online courses, who hasn't been stuyding my work, gets lost when they come to a clinic. I might open my clinics to anyone who is interested. I just have to see where the interest is. Right now, my online students are my focus:)
Do you know of the Wilson sisters in New Zealand? They do a great great job working with Wild Kaimanawa horses in New Zealand. I think their methods of handling these horses would be similar to your approach.