Extended GroundWork Workshop is your next step on your path supported by OneHorseLife. The very first experience that you had was our B.A.S.E. Kick-Start Training. The purpose of B.A.S.E Kick-Start Training was to introduce you step by step to the concept of Calmness. During B.A.S.E. Kick-Start Training you could have experienced what Calmness is, how to be Calm
It always amazes me that people can tell in one breath and in one sentence that horses are very intelligent animals and respond to the subtlest changes of the most
In the first module, you had experiences that were designed to help you to expand your body awareness to open you up for even deeper communication between you and your horse. During the past week you have experienced that every time you became more Calm, present, smiling and light in your head and in your body, your horse changed immediately. These
Because of the lack of proper words and due to the limitations that communication through the written language creates, I have to use some words (to tell you what you will do and experience in further exercises) that lost their true meaning. I will use the words that are being over-used, and their true meaning
Horses teach us how to be Calm. Everything else they show is just the effect of us being Calm and acting from the level of Calmness. Your horse can teach
Many times I receive questions from my students and other people that seek answers to their questions in OneHorseLife and Calmness: “What to do? My horse is not going forward? My horse says no to movement forward from the saddle”. My answer is always the very same: All horses love to move and they love to
Passing through the River of the illusion that horses can be only receivers of information during training meetings. Many times people ask me “How to know that the horse wants/agrees for…”, and I always tell them: When it happens, you will simply know it, you will feel it through your whole body and you will
The role of the teacher is to support. To support your students, you first need to be connected with them. You connect with your students when you are open for them. You connect with your students when you observe them in Calmness. You connect with your students when you see only good in them. Do
Life is about expressing yourself to the fullness. When you train your horse, your goal is to support him to express himself to the fullness and to express yourself to the fullness. This can happen only through love, gratitude and respect. At OneHorseLife, we very often say that YOU are learning from your horse, and it
We discussed earlier, and you also experienced it thanks to our preparatory exercises, the benefits of starting to introduce new Cues through the Body Yielding Cues, and then transferring them to the hand aids, in this case in preparation for the turns and circles. We supported this experience with the Half-turns on forehand and haunches
