1st technique: achieving TRUE CALMNESS in practice

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

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TIME TO BE FREE

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

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HORSE CALMING SIGNALS in practice

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

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EMOTIONS IN HORSE TRAINING in practice

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

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TEACHING TECHNIQUES in practice

  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:

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Why PLAYING is better than SCHOOLING

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

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BE GROUNDED IN REALITY

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

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REPETITIONS DON’T MAKE PERFECT

– they make PERMANENT /Warren Buffett, quote from his letters to investors/ After almost 3-week Holiday break I got back to the stable, and only learn how much my horses

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DIFFERENT FRAMES ON LOOSE REINS

I was first introduced to riding accoding to the principles of French Classical riding in Legerete by Mr Fritz Stahlecker of HSH Methode. I simply loved the concept, and I

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LIGHTNESS

Lightness should be an immanent part of riding and being with your horse. Lightness is not a mystical Neverland that you will find yourself in by an accident. Lightness is

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