Don’t WORK but PLAY with your horse

The beauty of playing with, not training!, your horse is that everything comes out so easily. Like you don’t even care, without any pressure. Nothing needs to be “trained”, nothing

TRUE KNOWLEDGE AND IGNORANCE

The True knowledge can be learnt only in action. Knowledge cleans everything from the ignorance and brings immediately visible change for the better. If we do not have these changes,

TOOLS & AIDS

So many times I see people riding bridleless or bitless saying they don’t have to maintain a constant contact with the horse’s mouth. At the same time they pull cordeo

PUT EMOTIONS FIRST

Don’t ever focus on the little things. If you skip the mental phase, and don’t reassure enough your horse about the real criteria of the exercise, you will always have

IT WORKS…

Almost everyday I write here about the importance of relaxation and giving your horse chance to relax with you. But those are only my thoughts on the subject, and all

WHY DO I PRAY BEFORE MY TRAININGS

I want to stay focused and thankful. I believe that those horses were brought into my life for a reason. And this reason is not to reach for higher dressage

SPIRITUALITY and HORSES

I believe that the spirituality should be given back to the regular people. In my life I meet a lot of people that are thinking about God, Nature and the

ENERGY IN GROUND WORK

Humans are slower than horses. When someone is working a horse from the ground using a curb bit (so called Kandarehandarbeit), sometimes the horse learns to move slowly and without

KNOW WHEN TO STOP

Endless repetitions won’t get you there. That’s for sure. The most important thing when working with your horse on emotional and mental engagement is to know when to stop. I’d

STOP and RELAX

STOP and RELAX – Always think about emotional tension first. I often see people who are riding very tense horses, and they try to relax them by making them move