Posts Tagged ‘horse’
Episode 283: Switching Gears: Mastering Multiple Roles with Your Horse
This podcast episode discusses the dual roles riders embody: the supportive advocate and the accountable coach. The challenge arises when riders need to switch between these roles depending on the situation with their horse. Using personal anecdotes and analogies, Stacy illustrates how these roles manifest in real-life scenarios, such as encouraging a horse to canter…
Read More🥰Love can be soft, hard, strong, fierce and bold.
Your horse has priorities. These are like rungs on a ladder, and when you skip one, things don’t work well. Many empathetic riders accidentally skip the second rung. They want their horse to feel safe and secure, but they make the mistake of trying to create safety with ‘soft’ love. Love is amazing, but it…
Read MoreEpisode 264: The hidden cost of how you treat you.
Dread. Disbelief… Disappointment. In this episode, Stacy shares an incident where she felt these, and she shares how understanding your responses in ‘every day’ life will show up when you work with your horse. Both of you will have thoughts and emotions when interacting. By knowing yourself, you can begin to see your reactions separate…
Read MoreNo Stirrup November-with a twist
It is November, which means you are likely to see “No Stirrup November” showing up as a theme. While I appreciate the concept, I’d like to propose a twist. But before that, let us pause and consider what the point of No Stirrup November is; for riders to improve their seat and legs. If…
Read MoreEpisode 231-Groundwork: earning the right to be in each other’s space
Today, I’m answering a question that came in about my philosophy of ‘earning the right to be in each other’s space.” The caller explains that she understands the concept as it applies to a pushy horse having to earn the right to enter her space. She is curious about how this concept applies to timid or…
Read MoreEpisode 182-How to deal with a mouthy horse and prevent biting.
A listener asks how to correct her mouthy horse and how to keep mouthiness or biting from happening in the first place. In this podcast, I explain why biting happens, the most common problem I see people making, and I give actionable instructions on how to be more engaging, interesting and clear. Learning how to…
Read MoreEpisode 180: Help, my horse started laying down while riding
What would you do if your horse started to lie down while you were riding? Here are some reasons a horse might try to lay down when riding: Horse is interested in rolling in water, mud or sand. Horse is itchy from sweat or bugs. Horse is colicky. Horse has discovered that laying down is…
Read MoreEpisode 178: My mare goes from calm and sweet to disconnected: self awareness, anticipation and adjustability
A listener asks a question about her mare, who at first appears, “…very good and calm, until she’s worked out what it is we’re doing and starts to anticipate.” The answer involves understanding the riders’ role in both the calm and the anticipation, identifying how anticipation can look different between hot and cold horses, and…
Read MoreEpisode 177- Rein contact: does your horse think support or correction?
A listener asks a question about the different levels of contact between dressage and reining. On the surface this seems like a question about a horse accepting the change between the two…but I took the answer much deeper than that. I explain how the rider’s opinion of contact changes the horse’s experience, and two specific…
Read MoreEpisode 174: Horse bucking while leading: earning the right to be near me
horse-play: Noun 1. rough, boisterous play.”this ridiculous horseplay has gone far enough” A listener asks a question about a horse that bucks when being lead. I discuss two main concepts; how the rider views the horses maturity age and the concept of ‘earning the right to be near me’ (and me earning the right to…
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