Category: Knowledge Base

  • Relaxation, Balance, Impulsion

    Relaxation, Balance, Impulsion

    It’s a fail safe recipe. These three qualities are the foundation of all we do with horses. Without these basics, achieving other qualities is difficult and collection impossible. Relaxation and impulsion are an interesting combination. Too much activity, and the horse is not relaxed, it can run through or ignore…

  • Opening the Poll

    Opening the Poll

    ON, IN FRONT OR BEHIND THE VERTICAL Often we see horses being ridden in a posture that is too ’round’, ‘curled under’ or ‘over-bent’. It may be due to lack of knowledge of how to work the horse correctly, or it can be the horse avoiding contact, trying to hide…

  • More inside leg… or neck reins?

    More inside leg… or neck reins?

    When a horse is ‘falling in’ on a circle or cutting corners, the common idea is: “more inside leg”. But often, this is not solving the problem, and can even make it worse, as horses tend to switch off to a constant nagging leg, and riders tend to ‘fall in’…

  • Aligning your mind with your horse

    Aligning your mind with your horse

    When I watch a horse and rider for the first time, or the first time in a while, I look for what is working well – and try to acknowledge and encourage that. Then I look for what is missing: the relaxation, balance, fluidity and synchronicity in the connections and…