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A weekend musing
? How we hold ourselves and move our bodies, influences how our horses do the same. As I play more and more with in hand and liberty work with Ronan, I have been reminded again how intune horses are to us. They read the most subtle of body/postural changes, some that I daresay we are not even aware that we do! What excites me most, is that once we become aware of this dialogue with our beautiful horses, it opens us to amazing possibilities of helping them find their most proud and functional postures – and in doing so, helps us do the same. Next time you are out with…
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What is your horses anxiety telling you?
Working with Ronan today gave me a lot to think about. It was our first in hand work session since his fall 4 weeks ago (which later diagnostics led us to discover his was born with a slight “step down” of C5/6 causing mild spinal cord compression). He was straight away unsettled, curling behind the bit, collapsing through his thoracic sling and over-reacting to every single aid I gave. Now, once upon a time, I would have just become firmer with him and told him to get over it and “pay attention to me”. Instead, I took a few deep breaths, and just tuned into him, to be guided to…
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