If you’d like to be part of learning how to utilize positive reinforcement training I will be doing several workshops: JUNE 30th: Full Circle Equestrian, at beautiful BALLARDS FARM…

“The harem group has a clear hierarchy in which the stallion and head mare are the two most central individuals in a very literal sense. The head mare is often…

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6SfJgYeQYQ&w=420&h=315]

When you keep working through a whirling dust storm, you will spend the next few days picking little bits of hay and wind-driven-dust out of every imaginable place—your hair, your…

Just saw this on Facebook … couldn’t be more apropos for …  GOOD HORSEMANSHIP!

A couple of video and blog views today really struck me. The first from Andrew and Vicki of horsesandhumans.org: “The basic relationship between you and your horse is not something…

– Almost always, the way to get a better response is to back the pressure off,instead of adding more. via [IceHorses] rashid quotes.

Mark 9:33-34 “After they arrived at Capernaum and settled in a house, Jesus asked his disciples, “What were you discussing out on the road?” But they didn’t answer, because they…

I’m posting a blog post from http://heccateisis.wordpress.com cause I think its one of the most poignant posts I’ve read in a long, long time. Everyone talks about the horse has to trust…

When we are blessed to have a very best friend do we not think and do what we might feel is in the best interest of that friend? Why, then, do we, as much as we espouse ‘friendship with horses’, continue to think of our horses as some ‘things’ to be ‘controlled’?

On Leadership and Horses …

Wow — all these new ‘buzzwords’ coming around for “Horsemanship”. I won’t name any but suffice they’re all feel-good, words-of-the-day, to describe something that is centuries old … GOOD HORSEMANSHIP….

We are but pilgrims in the land of Equus. Unkown, unfamiliar travelers who seek to find the answers. What are we but mutual, created beings upon this earth? In the…

Something is in the air. Something is changing. Something which I can’t quite put my finger on. I think – the horses listen. I talk – the horses listen. I…

To give a bit of definition to 12 Senses Horsemanship, these flash cards will define each point.

TODAY :: View the flash cards and with each one think of how you can use this sense with your horse today.

Today I am embarking on a journey — a 12 step journey. The steps may be big, they may be baby steps but they will be steps forward. Even in backwards steps we go forward if we strive to learn from them.

Care to join me?

The 12 Fastest Ways to Connect with The Horse Modeled after “The 12 Fastest Ways to Establish Rapport” from “littlethingsmatter.com” by Todd Smith In his article, “The 12 Fastest Ways…

Every morning God plants seeds in my heart about one thing or another. This morning I watched yet another ‘rescue’ video as I have watched so many. But my heart…

Random House definitions: Discipline: to punish or penalize in order to train and control; correct; chastise. Punishment: a penalty inflicted for an offense, fault, etc. Both denote that a behavior…

ALL “worldly” medicine is scientifically based, unless it’s faith healing or magic-based. Which I (but not you, apparently) consider an altogether and entirely separate thing. Natural (therefore bound by the…