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
This Module is a very special one for me. I hope that it brings you more clarity and understanding of the very simple, but very important steps that have lead us to this point. I hope that this Module brings you even more confidence and trust in the power of Calmness, togetherness and dividing everything
I have been looking for the right feel and the right moment to finish writing the fourth Module of our Workshop for you for quite some time now. And all the time I felt that I still need a little bit more time, and then again a little bit more time. I was reflecting upon
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
You already have some experience with Touch to Calm. You are ready to read more. Touch to Calm is about discovering that you are United with your horse. When you touch your horse, you can feel this Unity. This Unity is always present, even when you are not touching your horse. When you realise this
By doing the exercises in this Workshop, you will learn that NA comes from Calmness. You will learn that the more Calm you are, the more NA you can access, and that the more Calm you are with your horse, the more NA your horse can access. You will learn that to make energetic movements,