Many horse owners focus on the surface-level signs of discomfort—like a limp or a stiff gait—but few understand that the underlying issue could be something much more fundamental: equine posture. Ignoring this can lead to chronic pain, recurring injuries, and unnecessary veterinary expenses.

What if there was a way to improve your horse's posture and, as a result, enhance their overall well-being, soundness, and performance? In this episode, we dive into the world of equine posture with Dr. Karen Gellman, a veterinarian specializing in biomechanics and posture rehabilitation. Dr. Gellman shares insights on why posture is the foundation of equine health and how to achieve it through simple, practical methods.

BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING, YOU’LL DISCOVER:

• Why posture is a critical, often overlooked aspect of equine health.

• The three most important influences on your horse's posture: the hooves, the neck, and the teeth.

• How proper hoof care can prevent imbalances and support healthy movement.

• The surprising role that a horse's teeth play in maintaining good posture and locomotion.

Get ready to transform your understanding of equine health and take the first step toward a happier, healthier horse!

Connect with Karen:

Equine posture training: EquinePosture.com

Website: http://www.equinesportsmed.com

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Are you struggling to understand what your horse is trying to tell you?

Many horse owners make the mistake of assuming their horses' behaviors are purely instinctual or conditioned responses, without realizing the depth of communication happening right in front of them.

In this episode, we dive deep into the intricacies of equine communication with Rachael, a renowned behavioral consultant who specializes in horses. Rachael shares insights from her groundbreaking studies on calming signals and scent work, offering solutions that can transform your relationship with your horse.

BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING, YOU’LL LEARN:

👉 How to read and interpret your horse's body language accurately.

👉 The importance of non-conditioned communication with horses.

👉 Practical applications of scent work to help horses with behavioral challenges.

👉 Techniques to expand your horse's comfort zone and reduce anxiety.

Connect with Rachael:

Check out what Rachael is doing over on her website: https://calmingsignalsofhorses.com/en/

Use the discount code equestrianmovement15 to receive a 15% discount on Rachael's online courses. Check out the link below for Rachael's calming signals and scentwork online courses

https://calmingsignalsofhorses.com/en/online-course-calming-signals/

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LET’S CONNECT!

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Ready to start your connection based journey? Join us for our webinar: https://www.equestrianmovement.com/sayyes

A mantra in our school is to stop on a positive note feeling like you could've done more. As type A achiever equestrians we tend to feel something amazing when riding and keep chasing that feeling. I want it again, I want it more, I want it better!! However, quite often what we are feeling is our horses best effort. If we don't stop and reward for effort and drill for perfect behaviours our horse will go sour at best and get frustrated and throw dangerous behaviours at worst.

In this episode we will talk about how to bring down a shaping plan so that we are rewarding for effort and setting our horse up for success, not only today but in the rides moving forwards.

Ready to become a Holistic Equestrian? Join our free webinar - https://www.equestrianmovement.com/sayyes

Horses are emotional creatures, and interactions with us can be intensly stressful for some.

Join us in this episode as we talk about the immense mental, emotional and physical tax our expectations can have on our horses and how the only way they have to show us is behaviours. In this episode we dig in to some supportive strategies Jane has been helping me with in the school horses so that they are coping with their work and stress load better and able to communicate when they are not. Need a little Jane magic? You can contact her via:

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Email: jane@evokearomatics.com.au

Do you struggle to get willingness and enthusiastic yeses from your horse? Are you getting lots of nos from your horse? Lots of stubbornness, resistance, maybe behavioural nos like kicking, bucking and biting? In this episode we talk about developing a positive work ethic in our horses. Join us in the stronger bond community and keep the conversation going 

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In this episode we are talking about 2 foundational skills holistic horse handlers require which are:

- Making your horse feel safe to relax
- Developing your horses trust and confidence in you

Join me as we go in to why just "pushing your horse through it" doesn't work if you don't have these foundational criterias ticked.

Keep the conversation going, join the stronger bond community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/5dayimprovehorserelationship

Start developing these aspects of your relationship with your horse, join our free connection training: https://www.equestrianmovement.com/connection

Do you know how important it is for our horses to feel balanced when we ride, and how unhappy they can become when that balance isn’t there?

In this episode we talk to Lindsey Mutchler from Lindsey Mutchler fitness about why balance and core strength is so important to happy horses that enjoy being ridden. 

Book in with Lindsey: https://www.lindseymutchlerfitness.com/

Check out more about Lindsey: https://www.lindseymutchlerfitness.com/join-my-team

Check Lindsey out on facebook: https://www.instagram.com/lindsey__mutchler/

When we are struggling with change, insecurity and instability in our lives it is often reflected in our relationship with our horses. In this episode I share a life changing experience that I went through and how it affected my own self worth and how well I was able to show up for my horse. It is totally normal to go through this and know you are not alone. Join our free facebook community where we share these experiences and offer support to each other. 

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In this episode join us as we chat with Amanda Goble from enriching equines about how to create environments and games for happy horses. Amanda is a zoologist and an equestrian and takes her experiences with animal enrichment and behavioural training in to her training with her horse. 

Jump over to her website for a bunch of resources and put the spark back in your relationship with your horse. 

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Do you have the competence and confidence to set yourself and your horse up for success in training? 

Or are you flying by the seat of your pants hoping it will come together but secretly feeling like you're not good enough? 

We are big advocates for having a shaping plan and being strategic and intentional about how we will get to our goals with our horses. 

Can't see the light at the end of the tunnel and feeling like your hopelessly flailing around in the woods? Join our Holistic Horse Handling Program where we give you the lesson plans for shaping the behaviours, the videos of it in action and the process of strategically and intentionally building on our skill sets. Enrolments are currently open but only until tomorrow night. You can join here 

In this training we review the principles we have been learning throughtout the workshop and how they apply to our horses behavioural issues or to how we go about reaching our goals with our horses. Our holistic horse handling program is currently open to enrolments until Tuesday. Jump over and check it out:

https://www.equestrianmovement.com/holistichorsehandling

Your horse talks you with their body language and their behaviour. Are you listening? Check out this episode to understand how and for some tips and ideas of how to manage big, bold, dangerous behaviours, through to little annoying, inconvenient behaviours.

We are going to be holding another stronger bond workshop next week. Join up here and ask your questions directly to me!

Want the whole process laid out for you in achievable steps? Hop over to our holistic horse handling program and get the early bird special here. 

One of the questions we get asked a lot is why does my horse... insert behaviour here. So I thought today would be a good opportunity to talk to you about what your horse does want! Which can really help you understand when they are using behaviours to communicate they aren't ok with what is happening, you have more of an understanding for why. Lets keep this conversation going! Join us for our free online stronger bond workshop here. 

Need more of this in your training? Join the waitlist for enrolments to the holistic horse handling program for an early bird special here. 

Join us in this episode, the first of 6 in this mini series on developing willingness and overcoming resistance.

In this episode we discuss one of the mistakes we make as a horse rider if our only tool in the tool box is to escalate pressure.

Ready to become a holistic equestrian? Jump on our free webinar

https://www.equestrianmovement.com/sayyes

In this episode we talking all things micromanaging our horses performance. If you get told not to nag your horse, if you feel like your always trying to control and fix your horse, this one is for you. Jump over to the stronger bond community and share with us where you find yourself getting caught up in nagging your horse. Join the stronger bond community here

Want more ways of working with your horse to avoid nagging? Join our holistic horse handling course waitlist here. 

This was such a fabulous conversation with Megan from holistic hooves where we delved in to managing and working with donkeys who have been deemed too difficult to handle. Megan brings us a fresh light on how we can work together with our donkeys and our horses when we can understand the difference between making a donkey feel safe to be vulnerable around us vs being bullied in to submission. Megan gives us a view in to how and why donkeys can get such a bad wrap and how, when we work with them supportively, they have a beautiful heart and soul. 

Want to learn more about Megan and hooves?
Grab her trimming course here
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The final part of chats with Ben from Harts Horsemanship. We would love you to join us in the stronger bond community and share your aha moments with us. Stronger Bond Community | Facebook

Need more of Ben Hart in your life?  Check out his courses: Hart's Horsemanship (thinkific.com)Check out his website and see what he's about: http://www.hartshorsemanship.com/

Part 2 of chats with Ben from Harts Horsemanship. We would love you to join us in the stronger bond community and share your aha moments with us. Stronger Bond Community | Facebook

Need more of Ben Hart in your life?
Check out his courses: Hart's Horsemanship (thinkific.com)
Check out his website and see what he's about: http://www.hartshorsemanship.com/

Ben Hart is one of the UK's leading equine trainers, with a background in agriculture and a family history working with heavy horses. Ben has worked with horses, mules and donkeys all over the world: from mustangs and race horses in California, stock horses in Australia, and working equines in Cambodia and Ethiopia. Ben's use of the science of equine behaviour rather than a one method approach has been successful with traumatised animals at the UK's leading equine charities, and his ability to work with Human behaviour has been utilised by world leading animal welfare organisations such as WSPA, The Brooke and The Donkey Sanctuary. Ben's delivery of training is unique, ensuring an outstanding training experience that is enjoyable and life changing.

Join us on this episode as he shares with us the experiences that have led him down the path to where he is today. 

Want more of Ben?

You can check out his courses here: https://harts-horsemanship.thinkific.com/

And check out more about Ben and what he does over on his website here: http://www.hartshorsemanship.com/

If we are ever going to get in to a power battle with our horses its going to be over trying to medicate them!! In todays podcast I'm sharing with you my history of dealing with a very difficult horse and how finding a better way is taking the pain and heartache out of medicating our ponies. If ever we need cooperation in a stress free way from our horse it is when they are sick!! And if ever we need to be supportive of our horses needs its is when they are sick!! The situation can go south quick so join us today and learn how to set yourself and your horse up for success when it comes to medicating and treating illness. 

Want to know more? Our holistic horse handling course covers all the foundations you need on the ground for thorough and effective horse husbandry and handling. Register on the waitlist now, ready for the next time we are open for enrolments. 

https://www.equestrianmovement.com/holistichorsehandling

Have you been told by your trainer or peers that your horse is testing or challenging you? Check out this episode for how we approach this concept and how we can navigate the challenges our horses set for us.

Loving the podcast and need more? Join our waitlist for to register for our holistic horse handling course in the link below

https://www.equestrianmovement.com/holistichorsehandling

Do your training sessions feel like they are fraught conflict and are more a battle for power and control than actual training? That's what we will be talking about in the next season on the podcast. Listen to this podcast for a little insight on how I work around the power battle, trying to take the conversation for power off the table so we can have a more connection based training approach.

Want to know more? Join the waitlist for our next enrolment for the holistic horse handling program clicking the link below.

https://www.equestrianmovement.com/holistichorsehandling

Get your pen and paper out and get ready to take some big actions. We are going to get in to some serious goal setting and planning as we head in to the end of term 1. Setting goals and reflecting are the best ways to not only be accountable for the action you've taken but also realistic. They help you hold tragectory or shift based on what you are enjoying and what is honestly feasable. Without clear goal setting we can end up spending seemingly forever on the same task because we haven't given ourselves a clear direction or we get caught up in the bog. 

Jump on over to the website, grab a cup of team and lets dream audaciously together. 

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So grateful for your continued supported over the last year and a half. We have loved your questions, stories and feedback. We are taking a 3 week break from the podcast to catch up with ourselves after a hectic start to the year!! Life happens, right!?! But don't worry we have some amazing guests booked for term 2 and will be back in action from April 21.

In the meantime, stronger bond workshop is happening again!!! April 12, 13 and 14!!!

Sign up to the link and join us live to ask questions, get support and move forward with your horse from a holistic and connection based style of training. 

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Can you truly connect with your horse and understand its unique needs?

If you're struggling with traditional horse training methods, feeling the tension between structure and connection, or simply want to create a deeper bond with your horse, this episode is for you.

In this final part of our podcast interview with Susan, we explore the world of acupressure and the five-element approach to horse training, providing insights on how to create harmony and relaxation. We discuss the importance of grounding, relaxation, and establishing a positive relationship with your horse. Learn how to move beyond traditional conditioning methods and embrace a more holistic approach to training and connecting with your horse.

BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING, YOU’LL LEARN:

👉 How grounding and relaxation are key to building a better relationship with your horse.

👉 Why traditional training methods might not always be the best approach for achieving harmony.

👉 The five elements that guide the acupressure training, each representing different archetypes in horses.

👉 How to choose the right techniques and lifestyle changes to support your horse's unique needs.

Connect with Susan:

https://elementalacupressure.com/shop-home/

https://elementalacupressure.com/easyacu/

facebook - https://www.facebook.com/elemental.acu

LET’S CONNECT!

Website: https://www.equestrianmovement.com

Our instagram handle is https://www.instagram.com/equestrian_movement/

and fb https://www.facebook.com/EquestrianMovement

the school instagram handle

https://www.instagram.com/equestrianspiritaustralia/

and fb https://www.facebook.com/katiebonifaceequestrian

Ready to start your connection based journey? Join us for our webinar: https://www.equestrianmovement.com/sayyes

As a child getting bucked off happened every time I rode my horse. My mum bought me a book, "why does my horse...?" insert problem behaviour here and the question has plagued me ever since. 

In todays episode Sarah and I talk about my 20 year trip down the rabbit hole over this question and how the way we deal with this question continues to evolve in our holistic horse handling program. If you have ever ask "why does my horse...?" make sure you listen to this episode as we dig in to some of our foundational skills on creating happy, consenting, willing horses that enjoy learning and ask to be ridden. 

Love this episode and need to know more? Register for our holistic horse handling program here, opening again soon. 

There are so many things that come up for us when working with our horses that make us feel unsure, unsafe, doubt whether we are good enough, or if we ever can be good enough. In this episode we go through these conversations and more with Sarah and how she navigates her own personal battles with this as an amateur rider. 

Check out our holistic horse handling program, expand your tool kit and become the trainer you've always dreamt you could be

How well do you think your relationship is going with your horse? I recently got back in to playing pokemon go and it reminded me of some super simple foundational skills of building rapport and connection with our horses. Check out this episode for some basic exercises to build better relationships with your horse if it feels like there's a bit of a disconnect. 

What are you doing with your horse to keep the quality of relationship strong and fresh? Keep the conversation going over in our stronger bond community. Click here to join

How can we be empathic towards are horses without making behaviours worse? In this podcast I go a little in to how I trouble shoot whether I'm assigning an unrelatable human experience to the behaviour my horse is showing or is there foundation here for what they might be feeling that needs to be addressed and supported. Just saying we can't assign human experiences means we can't show empathy for how our horse might be processing their experience. So it's a balancing act. And this is how I balance.

If you want the work done for you so you don't have to figure it out, reach out to us. Our holistic horse handling program is going to be opening for enrolments April 14. You can check it out here.

Lets keep the conversation over in the stronger bond community. What behaviours may you be anthropomorphising?

Join us in this episode as we chat to one of our stable hands Madie. Madie has had a crash course at the barn ready to take on the her competition career we thought it best she got thrown in the deep end and learnt how to swim. With only a year of riding weekly and working with horses under her belt we learnt that she had some very helpful transferable skills for dealing with challenges at the barn and improving her balance and riding quickly.

I love transferrable skills. Having a reference point from to learn something new brings so much more depth, scope and colour to our foundations and the skills we already have been working hard to master.

Jump over to the stronger bond community and keep the conversation going. What transferrable skills did you have that helped you learn how to ride or that you have from riding that has helped you with other things? 

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Set aside some time to do some paddock chores and listen to this on because it is LONG! One of my stable hands Monique and I chat about her experience with her aggressive to the point of dangerous horse when she first got him and her experience working together with him as well as herd integration, working with a herd and how you know if your passion for horses is still alive and well. 

You can follow Monique and her dog training on her instagram page: Sit pretty training

Join us in this podcast as I share the experience of how I've seen pressure used in the industry evolve over the last 30 years. I am so happy to see the progress we are making in how we can more positively engage with and train our horses and look forward to keeping up with the research to see how it continues to evolve.

Want to join the conversation? Jump over to our stronger bond community and share your experience with how we continue to evolve in training horses here. 

Join us for this loaded question!!! Does your horse respect you? We would love you to continue this conversation with us in the stronger bond community. Come join us in the stronger bond community  

Over the last 8 weeks I have shared some tips and tricks I work on with my students to build a stronger bond and a deeper connection with their horses. In todays episode I'm sharing the 2 tricks that I use to "get in the zone" with the horses from a place of connection. 

Join our stronger bond community and keep the conversation going here

Want to a more connection based way of working with your horse? Check out our membership here

Connection in the saddle is through our body. We need to make sure we are balanced and secure in the saddle and allowing our horse to travel. Connection and control don't work well together. Do you feel safe to let go of your horses mouth? Can you drop the bit walk, trot and canter and still tell the horse what you want? This is where connection in the saddle is. We want to smoothly move from no contact to in to contact and back again without interfering with our horses posture or balance.

Check out our free stop drilling 20m circles training here

Apply for our ridden membership here

Check out some youtube trainings for a visual for these conversations:
- Posture stacking for balance in the saddle
- Hands our horse can trust
- Communication with a young arab mare in on backing

Are you struggling with outdated training methods that seem to create more stress than harmony with your horse?

Many riders and trainers get caught in a cycle of forceful or fear-based training without realizing the toll it takes on their horses' well-being. You might be getting results, but are they really worth it if they're breaking down the communication and trust between you and your horse?

What if there's a better way to train that not only produces results but also deepens the bond with your horse?

Traditional methods often rely on pressure and control, which can lead to fear-based responses. This doesn't foster a true partnership. Instead, let's explore a more compassionate approach that centers on creating a safe environment where both you and your horse can thrive.

In this episode, we're joined by Susan, a renowned expert in horse training and bodywork, to discuss transformative approaches to working with horses.

Susan shares her insights on creating a felt sense of safety and belonging for your horse, which allows them to relax and fully engage in training. With years of experience in the field, Susan brings a wealth of knowledge on how to shift from traditional methods to a more harmonious approach.

BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING, YOU’LL LEARN:

👉 How traditional training methods can create unnecessary stress and fear in horses

👉  The importance of compassionate leadership and emotional agility in building a strong relationship with your horse

👉  Tips and techniques for creating a sense of safety and belonging in your horse training

👉  How bodywork and mindfulness can transform the way you interact with your horse

Connect with Susan:

https://elementalacupressure.com/shop-home/

https://elementalacupressure.com/easyacu/

facebook - https://www.facebook.com/elemental.acu

LET’S CONNECT!

Website: https://www.equestrianmovement.com

Our instagram handle is https://www.instagram.com/equestrian_movement/

and fb https://www.facebook.com/EquestrianMovement

the school instagram handle

https://www.instagram.com/equestrianspiritaustralia/

and fb https://www.facebook.com/katiebonifaceequestrian

Ready to start your connection based journey? Join us for our webinar: https://www.equestrianmovement.com/sayyes

In this episode we are taking our connection work from the ground and transferring it to the saddle. There are 2 big foundational skills that I work on with my students that are often skipped, especially in the riding school environment, that could be holding you back. If you started at a riding school you might need to revisit your foundations and see if these are gaps in your training

Check out our free position training here

Check out ready to ride physio here. Louise uploads a free pilates for equestrians training every week. Each training is only around 10 minutes and totally doable as a warm up before riding or mini daily work out session.

Apply for our ridden membership trainings here

When we give the horses the power of consent and choice we unlock their true nature. This is what psychological safety is. We're not seeing the version of the horse that is scared and fears humans, fears for its life and fears threats in its environment.  We're not seeing the version of the horse that is tense and braced because it lacks faith, trust and confidence in us. We're seeing the version of the horse that feels so safe around us they are prepared to bring down their boundaries, walls and armour and be vulnerable with us. 

What could your horses potential have been before life and humans happened to them? How can we unpack that armour and rewire psychological safety and vulnerability in to their learnt behaviours?

There is a little caveat with choice and consent, once we give our horses a voice, we don't always like to hear what they have to say. Feel free to reach out if you need support. You can contact us via email here

Want to see our consent and choice training in action? Check it out here

Want to check out our membership training trainability? Start today here

Episode 5 of the connection series, togetherness. When it comes to working with horses we often have to leave our agenda at the gate and not be emotionally attached to the outcome, just working with the horse we have on the day. In this episode we talk about what it looks like to do our training session together and that sometimes it means doing what the horse wants to do. And if you don't know what your horse wants to do, here's a little hint. They want to hang out in the paddock with their herd and eat!

Get the youtube training for this episode here

Join our membership training trainability for how to find togetherness in work here

Get the free connection course here

Share your experiences with this connection series in the stronger bond community here

Thanks for joining us for our connection series. Today we are talking about being a leader worth following. Does your horse look to you to take the lead? Do they have faith, trust and confidence in you and your skills to follow your lead? This has a lot to do with how we can strategically and intentionally structure our training sessions so that the horses build more confidence in us and themselves by creating small achievable challenges with an immense sense of satisfaction and reward on completion. 

If you feel like your training sessions are lacking organisation and purpose. If you go in to your training session asking what are we going to do today? If you're feeling lost in what you are trying to achieve in your training environment with your horse check out our membership where we help you strategically plan your training out with your horse in small bite size pieces to work towards your big goal. You can find the membership here

Get the youtube training here

Register for the free connection course here

In this episode we are learning about building relationships and communication with communication buttons. The two buttons in use are hugs and scratches and there are a couple of skill sets required.   

Do you know where your horse likes to be scratched?
Do you know how your horse likes to be cuddled?
Do you have a heart felt embrace you can ask your horse for and they can ask you for?  

We are in to week 3 of our connection series on the first do no harm podcast in which we are learning about what I call "the softening". Does your horse melt in to your touch or do they stand with tension and brace against it? If you have a horse that holds tension against your touch on the ground they will inevitably brace against you in the saddle.   

Softening and allowing them in to you and you in to them is part of relaxation and swing under saddle as well as connection based and holistic horse training

Join our holistic horse training membership here

Join our free connection course here

Enjoying what you're learning and how your horse is responding? Join the stronger bond community and share your experiences here

Get the training with the communication buttons here 

Get the training with the softening when backing a young arab mare here

Join us for episode 2 of our connection series where we share our second top tip for discovering how with you your horse is! Part of having a safe horse that wants to look after you is relaxation and our horses are super good at show us active signs of relaxation and tension. When working with our horses we want our horses to feel safe to relax and have a sleep with us. That means not only do they trust us and not see us as a threat but they also trust us to stand guard while we sleep. 

Join the stronger bond community where we are continuing this conversation here 

Get the free connection training here

Join training trainability here

Get the accompanying Youtube training of relaxation cues both on the ground and under saddle here

Join us over the next 8 episodes of our connection based training series as we become powerfully connected equestrians that don't feel conflicted about the tools that we us because we understand what our horses are trying to communicate when they don't respond to our aids the way we asked.

In this episode we are sharing with you one of our first key identifiers for whether or not our horse is with us, eye contact! As humans, we kind of suck at reading body language. We have so heavily leaned in to using verbal communication with each other that we have lost the art of non verbal communication. This is what we learn from our horses.

The number 1 way to recognise if your horse is with you and connected and consenting or if they're starting to feel uncomfortable with what you're asking them to do is their eye contact. This is one of the first places you are going to see your horse showing discomfort about the way you are trying to communicate with them and what you're trying to ask of them.

Join our free online connection training here

Join our membership training trainability here

Watch the Youtube training here

The term connection is fast becoming a trending word within the industry but have you truly experienced it? Experiencing a word gives you a deeper meaning and understanding of what is trying to be communicated. In this episode I'm going to share with you some experiences that you may have had this quality of connection and what we are looking for in our horse to see if that connection is thriving or if there is a disconnect. 

Join us over the next 8 weeks for 8 exercises to implement to start building a deeper connection with your horse. 

You can get our free connection training here.

Want to learn the process for how to incorporate connection and quality of relationship in your training? Sign up to training trainability here

This is one from the archives in our stronger bond facebook community and we have a bunch more there!!! Join the group here

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Join training trainability and start developing a stronger bond and a deeper connection with your horse through holistic horsemanship so that your horse enjoys learning and asks to be ridden here

Join us in this discussion as we break down the elements of riding well and not just creating an aesthetically pleasing picture. We discuss all types of topics like breaking through training blocks, how to use your body when your horse bolts or bucks and how to be less of a burden on your horses back in general.

Check out Louises YouTube channel and run through her Pilates trainings here

Want to work with Louise? You can contact her here

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Check out my training with stacking your posture on bricks on our youtube channel here

Do you struggle to connect with your horse in a way that respects their autonomy and honors their unique personality? Many horse trainers and owners find themselves relying on high-pressure tactics, leading to tension, resistance, and a lack of genuine connection. It doesn't have to be this way.

If you've ever felt like your horse was resisting you or exhibiting behavioral issues, it might be a sign that the communication between you is off. Traditional training methods often focus on submission and pressure, which can create tension in both the horse and the trainer.

Instead, what if you could create a harmonious relationship with your horse by tapping into ancient methods that prioritize relaxation, consent, and individualized attention? In this episode, we're joined by Susan, a seasoned expert in five-element acupressure and Shiatsu massage, to help us explore a different approach.

BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING, YOU’LL LEARN:

👉 How Susan's practice of acupressure and other bodywork techniques can help create a deeper connection with your horse.

👉 The importance of asking for your horse's consent before engaging in physical contact and training.

👉 Ways to identify and understand your horse's unique personality type to tailor your training approach.

👉 Techniques to encourage relaxation in your horse, leading to improved movement, health, and behavior.

Connect with Susan:

https://elementalacupressure.com/shop-home/

https://elementalacupressure.com/easyacu/

facebook - https://www.facebook.com/elemental.acu

LET’S CONNECT!

Website: https://www.equestrianmovement.com

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If your riding at the moment feels like pushing shit up hill in a leaky wheelbarrow chances are you are getting frustrated, pushing yourself harder, possibly close to burn out, wondering if you are every going to be good enough.

In this episode I share with you the work I do with my students when they come to me feeling stuck and why pushing harder will only get you more stuck down the track. This is also the work I do with my beginner and intermediate students that prevents them from getting stuck where most riders get stuck and has them smashing road blocks without even knowing most people get stuck and frustrated at these points.

Grab the Youtube training here: I guarantee this video will improve your position in the saddle

Join us as we talk to Jane about working with different practitioners and modalities to support and correct problem behaviours and optimise athletic potential. Jane's particular love is essential oils for emotional support that help us do our emotional self regulation, resilience and agility work. I share with you how Jane has helped us with a feisty little mare that is really good at biting, girthy and does occassionally take the bolt and buck for fun. 

You can find Jane at Evoke Aromatics.

We talk a lot at Equestrian Movement as showing up as a leader worth following for our horses. In this podcast I go into detail of 5 things we accidentally do or unconsciously do with our horses that results in them losing faith in our leadership skills and how we can prove our worth and our value to them as someone they can trust to follow.

We love hearing from you!! So if you have found yourself in a situation where you broke your horses trust we would love to hear your story.

If you are keen as a bean for the process of strategically building your horses trust and confidence in you as well as the clarity of aids and quality of balance in the saddle, check out our membership: Riding for soundness