With this Module I would love to invite you to ask yourself this very important question: Why you ride horses? What is so special about this FOR YOU? Which moments of riding your horse you remember best? Which ones of them do you recall with the biggest smile? Horse riding is one of the most
In this module, you will learn how to engage really in doing some actions and how to engage your horse in these actions with you. It is crucial for you now to really understand the exercises from the previous Modules. First of all, always remember that we do not teach the horse to do something, we
With the Third Module’s Exercises I wish to introduce you and your horses to the concept of the Autonomy in Balance, Attitude, Straightness and Energy. Autonomy means that your horse will do whatever he likes and we will communicate with him what we wish him to do. First thing to remember here is that there is no Autonomy
With the third Module of our Riding Workshop we will take the next steps and enter the beautiful world of Engagement. When people think about Engagement in horse riding they usually think about the hind legs and how much they should step under the body of the horse; they think about collection, expression and advanced
Moving together in Calmness is like standing together in Calmness. It is based on Unity and on Calm Being Together. At the same time, Moving together in Calmness is a new experience for you, and to experience it you have to be very Calm and open. Maybe you have run before together with your horse, maybe
During the previous exercises you learned that Calmness opens the access to NA. You Calmed down by your horse to be able to trot or walk together with him. While trotting you Calmed even more when you opened for the canter NA, and your horse cantered. You also started to strip away all emotional and
We all know that horses are showing our tensions. They show us our tensions to help us to release them and to move on and grow. We also see that many times people want to explain what horse is doing in other ways. When a horse is nipping a treat bag, someone can say that
To be Calm, you have to BE. When you come to your horse, and you have any assumptions about what you will do, and what you will never do, you cannot BE. You create the false perception of you in your imagination, and you want to control the Reality to make this imagination real. It
When you are connected with yourself and you have literally no thoughts and no emotions in yourself – you always know what to do and you always act accordingly to the things that are happening around you. Sometimes you very decidedly yet calmly make your horse go away 2-3 steps away when he starts to
