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

Before you can expand awareness outside your body, you have to be able to expand your awareness on your own body. How to do this we teach in the BodyMarc Book. The principles of this process are simple: in Calmness and with the guiding support of the body we consciously tense one chosen part of

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

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,

Some years ago behaviourists used to think that animals are passive. But animals are active, they have their own goals and aspirations. We have to be aware of this fact. I wrote before that during clicker training we reinforce not only behaviours but also decisions our horse makes. In this PreWorkshop material I will show

Calming signals is a term introduced by Norwegian dog trainer Turid Rugaas (2005) to describe the behaviors that dogs show when trying to calm a situation. For animals living in groups, ways of communication, that can discharge the potentially tense situation, are extremely important. Calming signals are signals that all herd animals use in order to communicate with each

I would love to introduce you to the Calming technique, before your experience of NA starts. I want you to have time to really digest and understand our approach before you will try it with your horses. I want you to feel comfortable and not to hurry yourself. I’d love you to have time to ask

You can find further sets for expanding body awareness in our BodyMac Book & Video Set  

You will need your horse to teach you about NA. During the following sessions remember that YOU ARE LEARNING something your horse KNOWS very well. Your horse will teach you NA ONLY if he wants to teach you this. We cannot force it to happen, and we cannot trick your horse to respond to your NA.

To have direct experience of NA, you strongly advise doing BodyMarc and Calming Technique. You also have to prepare your horse. You need to remove all physical and emotional pain your horse can have now. Please check if your horse moves willingly during the training. That means that your horse starts to trot in a calm