Holistic Horsemanship & Husbandry Blogs — Self-awareness
Owning Your Role as the Herd Leader
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Today, let's embark on a journey into the intricate world of herd dynamics, unraveling the profound connection you share with your equine companion. We are going to break in down into 5 very important parts that begin to create the success between horses and humans Safety in Unity: The Prey Animal Instinct Our four-legged friends, as prey animals, are ingrained with a natural instinct for safety in numbers. Even in boarding facilities, where physical barriers might separate them, the essence of a "herd" remains intact. This is why our horses become buddy and/or barn sour. Understanding this primal need for...
Boundaries and Horsemanship
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Many of us struggle with setting healthy boundaries in relationships. When we learn how to successfully and effectively work with a 1000-pound animal to create a safe environment, we can begin to look at all our other relationships through enlightened eyes. Setting boundaries is a way of caring for ourselves. It does NOT make you mean, selfish, or uncaring.
The Hero’s Journey; a Horsewoman’s Story
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While a part of me longed for nothing more than to devote my time to pursuing my dream and sign on to taking the horsemanship journey, fear and doubt talked me out of taking that leap of faith
Lunging versus Groundwork
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Groundwork versus lunging or just getting on and ride I have found that there is a lot of confusion and misconception in regards to doing groundwork with our horses. Many people believe that doing groundwork and lunging are the same thing and they are not. Groundwork consists of a variety of things we do on the ground to get our horses engaging with us. When we ask our horses to do something, it requires them to engage their mind in order to get the body to do what is being asked. It gives us the opportunity to see where are...
The Amazing Mind
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The mind is an amazing thing.It’s deeply connected to the emotional part of this amazing vessel we identify as I or Me.It’s that part that allows us to get totally wrapped up in the moment.Lost in a good book for the afternoon, enthralled in a great movie. This happens because of the amazing mind.For those moments, we are living in the story and everything in our physical surroundings fades away.The mind has no concept of time: past present or future.For the mind every thing seems to be happening in this moment.Thoughts arise within the mind, which then triggers our emotions...