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Exceptional Horsemanship What makes Horsemanship Exceptional? Ordinary moves done with Exceptional technique and knowledge. Le

Awareness, precision, high skills, knowledge, commitment, integrity, kindness, patience, perseverance, HUMOR for Exceptional Horsemanship.

04/20/2024

Are nosebands necessary for dressage? Karen Rohlf discusses the purpose of nosebands and if they help you get better contact with your horse.

04/11/2024

Thanks to Sarah Kuz for this meaningful truth. I didn’t write this but I wish I had. So many of us want certain things in our horses that we have yet to master, ourselves…

A few of these sit uncomfortably with me, too.

04/11/2024

Think about it 🤔

Our crew lives outside and seems to thrive as a result. Horses 🐎 living like horses 🐎

04/10/2024

Sometimes I get really angry at all those alleged dressage pros who continue to give dressage a bad name.
I’m so sick of the blue tongues and the tight frames, the distorted gaits and the pain faces, the hollow backs and pseudo piaffes.
I would love to have a big RESET button for dressage. Because it’s heading the wrong way. I so much would love this to stop!
Because dressage can be breathtakingly beautiful.
Dressage can be calm, focused, connected.
It can be exciting and full of energy, WITH the consent of the horse.
Dressage can be a never ending journey of discovery.
Dressage can be ART.
It can be two beings moving as one.
And it’s not that hard!
You just have to stop pulling. And you have to stop pushing.
And instead learn how you can ride the horse from the seat with minimal hand and leg aids.
It’s not a myth! It can be done.
You might not win a medal. But you will certainly win the heart of your horse.
Sadly, there is no reset button and I cannot stop all the suffering caused to horses around the world.
But I can educate one rider at a time.
At the moment I have two openings in my classroom for personal students. More info here: www.classroom.academicartofriding.pl 🌹

03/05/2024

A thought to consider for some…..

Just what in the hell is the horse supposed to do with these people?
03/03/2024

Just what in the hell is the horse supposed to do with these people?

02/25/2024

You get what you are actually training, not what you THINK you are training.

If your horse practices more time moving in tension, you are training tension.

If your horse practices more time moving in relaxation, you are training relaxation.

If your horse spends more time feeling stressed in a training situation than they do feeling relaxed, you are teaching them that training is stressful.

Even if your intention is relaxation -

If they spend 40 minutes moving in tension, for you to achieve 2 minutes of relaxation at the end of that session...

You have been training your horse to move in tension.

If your horse spends 5 minutes moving in relaxation, to then fall out of that relaxation, for you spend 15 minutes in tension trying to get back to relaxation...

You have been training your horse to move in tension.

You have to set your horse up for success - both emotionally and physically.

And relaxation or compliance, which occurs after your horse has fatigued from spending sustained time in tension, will unlikely be teaching your horse anything meaningful.

Despite what your ego might want, you do not have to end a session on a good note.

Because after all, you get what you train ❤️

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The Fundamentals of Horse Posture:

https://www.yasminstuartequinephysio.com/fundamentals-of-horse-posture

The Fundamentals of Exercise Programming:

https://www.yasminstuartequinephysio.com/fundamentals-of-exercise-programming

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I’m obsessed and on a self-assigned lifelong mission to save obscure horsemanship concepts from the brink of oblivion and extinction. I’ve spent over 45 years obsessing over the details and nuance of my craft. Awareness, precision, high skills, knowledge, commitment, integrity, kindness, patience, perseverance, HUMOR for Exceptional Horsemanship.