Dara G. Lewis Classical Horsemanship

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02/11/2025

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02/10/2025

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02/05/2025

I was thinking about methods this morning. I remember something my old master, now in his 80s, had told me, “Don’t put a name on training. You have learned these things in order to pass them on with the added information you uniquely bring to the table, to help others. Don’t rename correct training in order to sell a gimmick, people do that and cheapen it. If you pass this on to someone else, they will make it their own with their added experiences and you have no control over that; this is the beauty of learning and evolving knowledge. It is your job to only add the things that will make it grow, to never hurt the horse.”

Correct and incorrect methods
Never hurt the horse or do no harm. This was the first thing I learned. Because if there is a piece of training that hurts the horse it is not correct and should be done away with. This does not mean to be afraid of sore muscles here and there because that is part of challenging the body; but to the excess is wrong. If a method has any instances of actively breaking the body and mind down in order to achieve said goal than it is incorrect; this is how you can tell the difference between trainers. They may have fancy words or coined terms but, in the end, if it challenges your sense of morality for what is to be done to a creature then it is wrong.

In a world full of coined terms, methods and jargon the simplicity of correctness is often lost. Sometimes I even think I should come up with some gimmick to advertise, but if the motivation was to just get more business than that would be wrong. I learn as much as I can as often as I can in order to filter it and bring the good things to the table, to offer correct training. No hacks, no quick fixes because with the horse those do more harm than good.
My training has been compared to other methods out there that are essentially the same, but more cleverly advertised. I’m not copying them and frankly have never hear of some of them until mentioned by someone else, they are simply trying to trademark training that has been developed for hundreds of years.

I don’t charge as much because I want it to be accessible to a wider audience, not because it’s worth less or has inferior results. I don’t believe foundational and fundamental knowledge of the horse should be behind a high pay wall; I simply charge for my time delivering customized solutions but post the base education freely.

As a consumer, don’t be fooled, decide for yourself if a trainer and their methods are something worth employing; but don’t be tricked into believing someone simply because they use clever advertising.

- Pic: Revan learning to be balanced at the halt as a green horse. Correct training has given him good muscle development using solely groundwork in preparation for under saddle. He doesn't have "dressage breeding", he's simply a grade foundation Appaloosa rescue.

02/05/2025

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02/04/2025

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01/28/2025

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01/21/2025

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01/20/2025

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01/16/2025

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01/14/2025

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01/07/2025

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