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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I receive a tremendous amount of messages from those of you who struggle with horses that are hyper-active or misbehaving when clicker trained or reinforced with food. Some of you

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The SOURCE of the action determines the RESULT of that action

If your action has the source grounded in fear, the only final result that you can expect from taking this action is even more fear. Fear is the way how

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ROUTINES versus PLANNING

Routines are very helpful and are something different than Planning. You can have daily, weekly or even yearly routines that are providing you some guidelines on what to do next.

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I believe in EQUAL PARTNERSHIP

I believe in EQUAL PARTNERSHIP – meaning that I value and respect my life as much as I value and respect the life of my horse. I don’t feel superior to

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FROM AUTONOMY TO ENGAGEMENT 

I often deal with people whose problem is lack of engagement or lack of energy or lack of regularity in their horse movements. The solution is very simple and very

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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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