The Red Pony - Horsemanship

The Red Pony - Horsemanship Jonge Paarden Educatie & Starten | Biomechanica & Lichaamsgebruik | Hoeven & Bekappen | Problemen & Rehabilitatie in Limburg en het grensgebied Aken NRW
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I always say, "maybe, but I'm not sure if I will put a mare and a gelding together, I don't want them to become all horm...
03/11/2024

I always say, "maybe, but I'm not sure if I will put a mare and a gelding together, I don't want them to become all hormonal and, I have to see". But what can I say, 24 hours after arrival 🫠. I'm a sucker for connection. The horses just always hit my soft spot 🐎

Horses learn better if they can be with other horses. Btw, I have a 0% track-record of accidents out of coupling horses while they are in training.

They might be a little in love, but well, what's not to like about more love in the world 🧡

Lesdagen waar training, hoefgezondheid en bodywork/myofasciaal release werk vloeiend in elkaar over kunnen gaan, vanuit ...
03/11/2024

Lesdagen waar training, hoefgezondheid en bodywork/myofasciaal release werk vloeiend in elkaar over kunnen gaan, vanuit de nieuwsgierigheid van eigenaars naar het hele paard. Dat zijn fijne dagen.

Als ik met andere mensen ga rijden, zeggen ze al snel "rij jij maar voorop, want jouw paarden stappen zo goed door".Mijn...
29/10/2024

Als ik met andere mensen ga rijden, zeggen ze al snel "rij jij maar voorop, want jouw paarden stappen zo goed door".

Mijn 2 eigen paarden zijn maar zo rond de 1.48m. Dat ze andere, vaak grotere paarden gemakkelijk voorbij stappen is geen toeval: ik werk altijd aan een vrije stap, I want them to feel that they can walk-out. Ik wil dat ze, letterlijk, voelen dat ze meer ruimte kunnen innemen.

Ik wil ook de gangen van paarden verbeteren: ik zie veel paarden met een korte pas en weinig tot geen beweging in het hoofd en de hals, vaak omdat de ruiter het paard niet durft los te laten.

Bij verbetering van de gang denk ik bij de stap aan vrije laterale beweging van de rug, ruime passen, een ruimer dieper stappend achterbeen en veel beweging van het hoofd en de hals: op, neer, links, rechts. Een ruim stappend paard zal daarnaast dieper gaan doorademen, waardoor spanning kan afvloeien. Het is belangrijk dat alles dat ik doe tot doel heeft een paard te verbeteren en goed te doen voelen over zichzelf, zeker bij de jonge paarden en ook als ik buitenrijd. Hierbij is horsemanship niet anders van goede paardentraining.

Ik leerde laatst tijdens mijn opleiding dat wat ik uit Amerika ken als "walking-out" hier in Nederland soms ook wel powerstappen genoemd wordt. Dit heb je niet van de een op andere dag, daar moet je aan werken. Mijn ervaring is dat de grootte van een paard daarbij weinig uitmaakt, en de paarden over het algemeen verbeteren als de stap verbetert.

Palperen en huiswerk doen met mijn merrie is op de een of andere manier dubbel zo spannend als met een om het even ander...
25/10/2024

Palperen en huiswerk doen met mijn merrie is op de een of andere manier dubbel zo spannend als met een om het even ander paard. Te eigen. Te objectief moeten kijken.

Maar ze vindt het OK - het duurde haar even om in mijn intentie te lezen dat voelen en duwen niet betekent dat ze hoeft te wijken. Het is me al vaker en door verschillende therapeuten gezegd: "jouw paard wijkt te goed voor druk". Het is de intentie die het verschil maakt, maar ik begrijp die uitspraak nu wel beter.

Afgelopen week direct terug de schoolbanken in voor de myofasciaal release therapeut opleiding. Het is interessant om te...
23/10/2024

Afgelopen week direct terug de schoolbanken in voor de myofasciaal release therapeut opleiding. Het is interessant om te merken hoe anatomie studeren echt in laagjes gaat, en iedere keer ontgoochelend om je te beseffen dat het paard dat we zo goed denken te kennen, zoveel meer te vertellen heeft.

Mijn mobiele kantoor in de regen 🍂☔️🌧Van mooi en helder Colorado is dit herfstweer wel weer even wennen, en ook wel even...
14/10/2024

Mijn mobiele kantoor in de regen 🍂☔️🌧

Van mooi en helder Colorado is dit herfstweer wel weer even wennen, en ook wel even slikken. Ik werk aan mijn clinic-notities om een en ander te kunnen delen van mijn tijd in Amerika en de clinicians die we hebben bezocht.

Dit najaar heb ik ruimte voor:

👉 Nieuwe bekapklanten, straal 40 km van postcode 6291 AV
👉 Nieuwe lesklanten met heldere doelen en toegang tot een binnenbak
👉 2 Trainingspaarden per 1 november

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Looking forward to this!
03/10/2024

Looking forward to this!

26/09/2024

What a super fun day spent filming with Katrin Silva. Can’t wait to share some great lessons on contact, lateral work, canter work and more! Thanks to Mandy Jam for photos and being a great road trip buddy!

Landed in Denver last night and reading up for a roadtrip filming with  It's been since before Covid that I was last in ...
21/09/2024

Landed in Denver last night and reading up for a roadtrip filming with

It's been since before Covid that I was last in the US - I never thought it'd take that long before visiting again. Thankful for the opportunity, it's a dream come true 🇱🇷✍️🧡

This summer just keeps on giving.🇬🇧 After a month in the UK, where I attended the practical portion of my Equinology Bod...
05/09/2024

This summer just keeps on giving.

🇬🇧 After a month in the UK, where I attended the practical portion of my Equinology Bodyworker Certification course, I am back in the Netherlands for a small breather, to see my horses and catch up with clients. Later this month I will finally visit the US 🇱🇷 after 5 years.

✍️ Some of you have asked me to explain more about the course I am doing, what Equinology is, the type of bodywork and what my focus on this study as well as the fascia release therapy certification I am doing in the Netherlands 🇱🇺 will mean for my work with the horses and my business.

I will get into this a lot more over the coming months.

I will keep focusing on horse starting, young horses, behaviour, problems, rehabilitation and hoofcare - this won't change, but once I am fully certified and have graduated, bodywork and fascia release will be more integral to my services.

2024 is all about study and development for me, after having had multiple horses in training who just didn't feel right. Over the years I have met some horses with mystery symptoms who kept me up at night - I would feel and know something wasn't right at all, but couldn't put my finger on it. I lacked the anatomical knowledge to really talk with vets, and found that in some cases, my experience and background wasn't respected enough by other professionals or the owners, to listen to. However, in cases I didn't want to be right at all, every time my observations later turned out to be correct, in one way or another.

Unfortunately horsemanship seems to lose meaning and quality standards with the general public, and I felt like I needed more tools to navigate with owners, vets and other professionals, to keep putting the horse first.

I am still processing the time I had with my class in the UK and am organising my learning and study time around teaching and horses in training, and also enjoying the end of this beautiful summer as much as I can 🌍🌞

To be continued 🐎

I love to hear how the horses I have started in the past are getting on in their careers. It makes me very happy to see ...
23/08/2024

I love to hear how the horses I have started in the past are getting on in their careers. It makes me very happy to see them thrive. Imperium in Estonia 🐎🧡

It really was a unique experience to start
's fantastic young jumping horses back in 2021. It was such a pleasure to prepare them and get to work with them, I loved every minute of it! Thank you 🙏

Kinderliefde 🧡
03/08/2024

Kinderliefde 🧡

In the horsemanship world, lots has been said and written about gaining the confidence to (re-)learn to learn as an adul...
17/07/2024

In the horsemanship world, lots has been said and written about gaining the confidence to (re-)learn to learn as an adult. Learning something new, especially when there are old patterns to unlearn or let go of, is hard for horse people. The times that I have heard people say: "we have our own way of doing this", or "I have always been told to do this this way" are impossible to count.

My take on learning is this: as long as we are not ready, we won't learn. This often presents as a bracy feeling, or a "yes, but".

It is not the responsibility of the teacher to get a student ready to learn, or to defend/discuss/argue for a chosen philosophy/method. Once someone is ready to take on the information, learning can happen dynamically, in conversation, rather than in opposition.

Feeling brace or insecurity against letting go of old habits gives you information. It can be insightful to explore that feeling and sit with it. You can ask yourself: why am I feeling this way? Can I put this feeling aside for a while and give this an honest and consistent shot? Could I let go of what other people might think if I go for it? Am I willing to feel uncomfortable as I am learning something new? How does my horse respond to this new presentation? How does my horse respond when I go back to my old ways? Which approach seems to make my horse more centered/peaceful/harmonious/soft/balanced/less troubled/less angry/more cooperative, etc.?

A teacher is not a lawyer arguing a case. We have a sea of information to give and share - the depth of which is dependent on the readiness of the student.

If I see horses for lessons, I sometimes only need to point or look or stand next to them, and I'll hear their breath st...
04/07/2024

If I see horses for lessons, I sometimes only need to point or look or stand next to them, and I'll hear their breath stop.

They are tight. They don't feel well.

It is not me that causes the tightness, but I bring it to the surface. I expose it. This is not the same as causing it. I just allow it to come to the forefront.

There is no shame in tension - it better comes out, so that it doesn’t have to build up.

If we don't like to see tension in a horse, the horse will start to hold it in. Some horses do this for their owners, I think - to fill in for them. These are nice horses, but they do it to their own detriment, and sooner or later it does come out, either behaviorally or in the form of illness.

If there is pressure built up in the horse's system, it needs to have an outlet.

We build tension and stress all the time in ourselves because of our busy lives. These days nothing is talked about more than how we, as people functioning in a high-pressure environment, can let go of stress, let off steam, unwind, re-charge, re-energise.

Why expect a horse to be any different? They need our help. Not to be calm and relaxed and well-behaving and sheltered all the time, but to regulate tension in the high-pressure world we decide to keep them in.

This is where better horsemanship can help.

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Een goede week om deze nog eens te delen 🦟
27/06/2024

Een goede week om deze nog eens te delen 🦟

Throwback to a hot, horse fly filled summer. Synchronising tails to battle the flies, but with a resigned, stoic feel to it.

One thing we can learn from horses, if we let them live a natural life, is that they become accepting of circumstances as they are, even if the situation is irritating, inconvenient, less than (in our eyes) ideal.

Nature is not soft. It is what it is.

During summer in Estonia, there is a couple of weeks of Horse Fly Horror. There is no escaping it; it is an outright plague if you are in the forest. The horses would move as one all day, lowering their heads to graze in a trot, on the go. As a consequence, even if they had built up some extra weight over the summer, after this they'd be lean as can be.

Of course I felt nature was cruel, and I would open the barndoors so that they could have a bit of relief during the hottest part of the day. But at night, we would go out, and I would try to be stoic, like them, and guide them in a shared experience of "Oh man, this sucks. Poor us. But, let's go guys, we're together".

What I learnt from observing the horses make the best of the circumstances as they were, is the ability to be stoic, waiting, accepting of the present. Waiting out what is unpleasant. Surrender to what you cannot change.

I'm not saying, by any means, that I master the skill. I think beings with a frontal lobe are not exactly made for this kind of mindfulness - it probably remains a continual practice. Even if you once "had" it, the next moment it can be lost again.

Ever since, I have tried to incorporate this concept in my work with the horses, as so much in their life in a human world is going to be less than ideal, if we would ask them. With some preparation, also domesticated horses can learn to be OK with inconvenience.


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