If you want to bring something new and some good change to the relationship with your horse you need to TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF, first. To be the source of
I know that our second technique may be something very NEW to you today. Please don’t worry, give yourself time to read it few times and digest it. You will need that time to start understand how to implement it to your everyday trainings. This is not that hard in practice. To encourage you to
One of the questions I am most frequently asked is “How can I make my horse engage more in the training?”. In this PreWorkshop Material I’d love to share with you two of my techniques to build-up your horse’s Engagement and Satisfaction and to transfer them to any desired situation or exercise. I decided to join
I made a decision to introduce you to all of my practical techniques, before our Online Workshop starts in April. 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
Why on a curb bit? Isn’t it possible to have a soft contact and perform all high-dressage figures on a simple snaffle? Why on a snaffle? Isn’t it better to
Calming signals are signals that all herd animals use in order to communicate with each other. I believe that there are hundreds of calming signals our horses use between each other to communicate their intensions, emotions and stress level in order to avoid conflicts in the herd. We know at least 30 calming signals our
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
During last hundred years we had many scientific discoveries on how people and animals learn new things. This is very broad subject and very well covered in the literature and here I will give you only short summary with practical information on how this works with horses. Horses can learn in four different situations:
During PLAY your horse’s brain is SO FLEXIBLE that he can very quickly learn new, even interspecific, behaviours. This is so important and thus self-reinforcing for animals that the urge
So many times I see people training not their REAL HORSE, but the HORSE THEY HAVE IN MIND. Their real horse is not the horse that their mind produced and
