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Tools to Unbrace, Calm and Focus Your Horse Before Getting On
9 Lessons
Relax and Focus Your Horse
(or fire-breathing dragon)
Groundwork to Free Your Calm, Responsive and Focused Horse
That easily translates to riding!
I put the first lessons into practice with my 10 year old daughter and her new ponyfriend of 4.
They are both young and a bit uncertain after some scary moments.
Your relaxing tricks helped them to bond.
In only two days they became best friends again.
Thank you so much!!!
Odile Kaiser
It's important for a horse to be relaxed, calm and focused, but even more so when they're not at home.
Arriving at your Working Equitation show, a clinic, lesson or trail ride with a horse that's...
Makes you feel worried and nervous, and then your horse feeds off that, and gets worse.
This can lead to the belief, "he'll be fine once I get on". But do you feel fine?
Some experienced riders might be because once they're on, they know what to do.
But knowing what to do BEFORE you get on not only helps you deal with these problems, it helps you AVOID them altogether.
From the moment you unload your horse from the trailer, you can use these techniques.
You don't need a big area or a lot of equipment to help your horse feel more relaxed, calm and focused.
Ready to go to work, or just hang out until it's your turn.
It can even help with getting your horse happy to be in the trailer.
...I only trailered her once and she was a panicked very sweaty mess when I got to where I was going.
I did the relax\focus sessions a few times at my tack up area, in her paddock and in the round pen. Then I did it at my trailer before I groomed her. These sessions were over a period of a few weeks.
Then I did a few relax\focus sessions at back of trailer with doors open.
Then I started walking up to back of trailer on loose lead next to her, not in front.
We had just had a really nice ride too. So I decided to try the trailer. We walked on loose lead side by side and she loaded right in without any hesitation what so ever!!!
And repeated it 4 times.
And she seemed relaxed while in there, not tense and wide eyed. It has been a really good technique for us so thank you very much!
Denise Montagne
Unlock Your Tense and Inattentive Horse
Free Your Calm, Responsive and Focused Horse
Horses can display symptoms of stress in various ways.
… and when the horse feels stressed, we often do too!
So what can we do to help?
What resources do we have at hand that we can offer our horse to reduce his stress, thereby reducing our own?
That will be the focus of this course.
Inside you'll find detailed, concrete solutions you can implement to aid your horse.
Enjoy!
Dagmar Realini (Coach)
They used a choke chain and tried to keep pulling the horse’s head down to push worming paste into her mouth...
Dagmar writes:
One of my young boarders (teenager, who is on equestrian team 😣) had problems worming her horse, a little QH/Paint mix.
Her friend tried to help. They used a choke chain and tried to keep pulling the horse’s head down to push worming paste into her mouth.
Naturally, she backed up, jerked up her head and wasn't going to have it.
Girl asked me if I could help. First, I removed the chain and lead her in a walk as taught in the course until she lowered her head nicely and was visibly relaxed.
I asked for the wormer paste.
She immediately raised her head and wanted to back up.
Fine, I put tube into my hand, that lead her halter and just started walking, allowing her to relax to seeing tube there, but not asking for anything.
Next, I reached up to her nose with my left hand, again, she immediately raised her head.
I simply placed flat hand over her nose bridge and, continuing walking, moving head as taught until she relaxed again.
Then I ran the tube down the side of her head without pressure, and inserted it between her lips.
No fight, nothing, she ate it up nicely and kept her head low with me.
I loved on her and reminded both teenagers to quit trying to force anything onto horses.
Long story short, I'm glad we were all working on that course last fall, it comes in handy on sooooo many occasions.
Thanks Trish!!!"
Course Curriculum
Your guide: Trish Hyatt
International Coach and Clinician
National and International Top 10 Competitor
Technical Delegate and WEDU Judge of Working Equitation (retired)
40+ years of training horses and people.
