08/08/2025
The upside to riding through connection is that you have a profound relationship with your horse(s). Sharing body movements, energies, and even thoughts - that 2, quickly become 1. The relationship trumps any training aide or cue.
But the process looks different.
The majority of our horsemanship has resorted to placing a horse into a frame that is desired for APPEARANCE ALONE, but in fact has nothing to do with the actual ability to perform a task, let alone protect the horse from injury to the physical or phychy.
Instead, developing the connection is the “training”.
The quiet moments of feeling how the body responds & moves. The focus on the tiniest of ldetails of the “horse & rider Union” biomechanics. The mental/emotional state for each varying task/environment. Where is movement flowing? Where are the blocks?
Keeping both rider & horse “present” & breathing in what they are doing - with conscious effort.
Understanding that balance comes from many things. Up/down, left/right from both parties of the union - working together, as well as thought patterns. Are they in balance? How about emotional balance?
I have owned well over a 100 horses in my lifetime so far. Gotten to know the deepest details of horses’ movement, but from their viewpoint, not ours.
I have taught well over 100 people how to ride & feel their horse - I have watched hearts bloom in front of my eyes, when riders are so filled with love for the horse they are on, and what is possible when you ride with that as your guide.
The sky becomes the limit.
Here’s to living every minute of every day with horses!!!
