Riding Club of Austin students getting their group lesson started off right 😎
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Group lesson kicking off to a great start!
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Students hacking out in the field
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Students warming up their horses
Getting warmed up for Saturday Group Lesson!! #austintx #wimberleytx #drippingspringstx #driftwoodtx
Two pretty best friends. ✨
Two pretty best friends. ✨ #austintx #kyletx #equinelife #ottb #cute #equestrian #hunterjumper #horsesofinstagram
One of our new members “Lucky🍀” practicing being introduced to ”new” scary jumps. With horses who have anxiety surrounding jumps I’ve grown to love this method of strengthening their anxiety threshold. I don’t do this exercise every ride either if there is more anxiety that I’m working with. I will have a working student warm them up in the round pen without the burden of weight on their back and without the pressure of multiple aids - just simple low pressure warmup to get their body into a state of relaxation.
Then I hop on and do my flatwork. As I’m doing this I begin moving my horse around the jumps from all angles and sides. These are always jumps that were from last ride - set up exactly the same. Then we go over the jumps at a relaxed trot. the first approach I allow my horse to say “no” and encourage them to stand in front of the jump. I utilize techniques used in people with ptsd in this moment to help them process what’s in front of them then relax and breathe deep from my belly.
We then turn away and reapproach this time I provide a gentle leg of encouragement through and through. Once we’re doing this without fail over and over and my horse is even wanting to pick up speed I then rearrange all the jumps and set out brush, flowers, cones, etc. all things my horse has seen by themselves but not in this drastic combo. What I’m doing is I’m intentionally pushing my horse into anxiety but only at a low level - then I stay with them all the way until they come back to baseline then we just cruise there and have a little fun.
Rinse. Repeat.
Understanding the limbic system of a horses brain is very identical to ours. And this is how horses are so therapeutic. As we understand our horses brain, we understand ours more too.
Fish
‘Fish’ out of water 🐟 #fish #austintx #ridingclubofatx #horsegirl #explorepage #field #equine #equestrian #hunterjumper #quarterhorse #horsesofinstagram
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Jam sesh before our lesson 😈😈 #rock #horses #lesson #ridingclubofatx #hunterjumper #explorepage #equine #equestrian #horsesofinstagram #funny #comedy
Riding Club ATX is located in southwest Austin TX near the corner of FM 1826 and Nutty Brown Rd.
