Wexford Training

11/17/2024

139: Instability is a Big Deal for Our Horse
If you have never thought about it, have a listen. If your horse feels hard to ride, has terrible gaits or persistent behavioral issues, then you might want to consider if your horse feels stable during motion or not. It is a game changer and not something frequently talked about.

Discussion about how our stability and our horse's stability - or lack of it - is fundamental to functional use and balance. A loss of stability can create f...

11/03/2024

This month's newsletter is about how we can manage stress and find balance despite the world around us. Also included is a featured video for helping female riders learn how to gain a very stable seat in the saddle. Enjoy!

I am a professional horse trainer and developer of the program, Training for Optimal Balance. I share information that helps horse owners train their own horses, or helps horse professionals find a new perspective on training - and personal development is the number one side effect of authentically....

10/29/2024

138: Task's Don't Teach Balance
Because tasks do not inherently alter internal skeletal coordination. Getting any task accomplished can be achieved in a completely dysfunctional coordination or ideal coordination. Knowing the difference is what makes the difference.

If teaching through tasks, such as riding maneuvers, patterns or navigating obstacles, actually taught horses and riders to balance as a side effect, then we...

10/24/2024

137: Strategies for Learning, about Horses of Course!

Learning how to learn can be just as important as what we learn. Having pragmatic strategies, changing strategies as needed, is often what helps us find the path of least resistance to our goals.

A chat about learning in general, whether we are the one learning or we are the one trying to help our horse learn. The three basic strategies that help faci...

10/16/2024

136: Tensegrity, What? and Why!
If you don't know what tensegrity is, as a structural model, then have a listen! It helps us understand how bodies work and how pain issues might be a result of a problem somewhere else in the body that can seem unrelated.

Discussion about what tensegrity is, how it works and why it is important for us to understand as a structural model for living bodies. Taking a deeper look ...

10/10/2024

All people and critters are safe and fine here. No structure damage just a lot of tree branches. No power right now but we were ready for that! Have lots of water on hand for horses and people and plenty of ice for the coolers. Hopefully power is restored soon! But all is well at Wexford Farm and I feel pretty lucky overall!
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10/01/2024

The link to my October newsletter is below. This month's featured article is called, Your Horse is NOT Lazy. If you refer to your horse as lazy, or crazy, then you might want to have a look.

I am a professional horse trainer and developer of the program, Training for Optimal Balance. I share information that helps horse owners train their own horses, or helps horse professionals find a new perspective on training - and personal development is the number one side effect of authentically....

09/25/2024

Our horses are doing the best they can with what they know. If we want to resolve problems, we need to understand what our horse needs from us, emotionally, mentally and physically.

Turning our thoughts and language around is part of shifting our objectives from task oriented training into mastering balance. Qualities are neither good or...

09/16/2024

Remember long and balanced? If that sound new then you might want to have a listen.

Defining what the horse posture of Basic Balance looks like, as a long but balanced frame, but more importantly what Basic Balance feels like when the coordi...

09/10/2024

Horse Geeks Podcast 133: Rehabbing Aggressive Horses

Horses that lean into the fight defensive strategy as a means for expressing fear, uncertainty or instability suffer the most in our horse world because they...

09/03/2024

The September newsletter, with Becoming A Horse Whisperer...

I am a professional horse trainer and developer of the program, Training for Optimal Balance. I share information that helps horse owners train their own horses, or helps horse professionals find a new perspective on training - and personal development is the number one side effect of authentically....

09/02/2024

Horse Geeks Podcast 132: Balance For All Bodies

Discussing what balance means on a practical level and why we make it our goal. Before talking about a horse posture called basic balance, we take a moment t...

08/21/2024

Horse Geeks Podcast 131: Positive Reinforcement

What is positive reinforcement as a training tool and is it better than negative reinforcement? We use both types of reinforcement for training our horses al...

08/12/2024

Horse Geeks Podcast 130: The Horse Posture of Long and Low

Long and Low as a horse posture is at best confusing for most riders and horse owners! Is it good? Is it bad? Does it benefit the horse or harm? And the inst...

08/05/2024

August newsletter, with a lesson about thinking, communicating and finding gentler methods for training our horses.

I am a professional horse trainer and developer of the program, Training for Optimal Balance. I share information that helps horse owners train their own horses, or helps horse professionals find a new perspective on training - and personal development is the number one side effect of authentically....

08/02/2024

Horse Geeks Podcast 129: Ulcers in Horses

Stephanie Carter FNTP, brings a ton of information to this podcast about ulcers in horses. She covers the three types of ulcers, what some common causes are ...

07/27/2024

Horse Geeks Podcast 128: Head and Neck Balance

The balance of the head, neck, back and pelvis are all related and are primary to the overall balance and coordination of the body, especially during motion....