Honey's Horses

03/04/2024

The honey method is now also a book!!

The Honey Method: Educate your foal and horse with non-verbal communication

30/08/2023

Each adult horse is the result of the experiences it has had throughout its life.
The imprinting and the degree of influence is enormous in the first months of the foal's life and very important in the first three years.
In this period the character, the attitudes and the mentality of the foal are formed.
You may have never thought about it, but at the moment of taming your horse's personality is already fully formed and you can only manage it.
The work on the foal with The Honey Method begins immediately after birth and contributes to forming self-confident and respectful foals, that are able to take initiatives and solve problems, aware of themselves and their body. They are enthusiastic, close to the humans and above all happy.

The book Is available on Amazon

27/08/2023

The Honey method Is now available on Amazon

The Honey Method: Educate your foal and horse with non-verbal communication

05/09/2022

Each adult horse is the result of the experiences it has had throughout its life.
The imprinting and the degree of influence is enormous in the first months of the foal's life and very important in the first three years.
In this period the character, the attitudes and the mentality of the foal are formed.
You may have never thought about it, but at the moment of taming your horse's personality is already fully formed and you can only manage it.
The work on the foal with The Honey Method begins immediately after birth and contributes to forming self-confident and respectful foals, that are able to take initiatives and solve problems, aware of themselves and their body. They are enthusiastic, close to the humans and above all happy.

30/08/2022

Great news! The Honey Method becomes in Italy part of the CSEN training program. Our course is now certified by a high-level organization that will issue a national diploma after a final exam.

Ottime notizie! The Honey Method entra a fare parte del programma di formazione CSEN.
Il nostro corso è da oggi certificato da un organizzazione di alto livello che rilascerà un diploma nazionale dopo un esame finale.

18/08/2022

The trust

08/08/2022

At first glance this image is nice and sweet.
In reality, it is an important learning moment for the filly. She was able to observe the mother wearing the halter and is now exploring the lead through her mouth.
Observation and exploration are the first steps in a complex system with which foals gains life experiences.

08/08/2022

F.A.Q. about The Honey Method

08/08/2022

Barbara Miele, creator of this method of education and training of the foal, explains how THE HONEY METHOD© was born.

The first time the idea came to me was about twenty-five years ago when I was offered an adult horse that was destined to be euthanised, he was totally unmanageable and a danger to himself and those who took care of him. I accepted the challenge, because I had known him since he was two years old, however, now I found myself faced with a totally different horse, resistant to any kind of request and biased towards humans.

Nothing I had learned during my studies to become a riding instructor and horse trainer worked with him; for the first time I found myself in front of a horse who, instead of carrying out requests promptly, showed clear signs of impatience, forcing me to ask myself about the training systems I had learned. These systems were clearly based on respect for the horse, but were standardised and focused on the requests rather than listening to the responses of the animal.

So, I started listening and spent a lot of time observing my horse even in the wild within the herd and then continued deepening my studies in ethology and equine psychology until I found a way to communicate with him and slowly started to break down all resistances.

A further and decisive push to formalise this method came to me later from a mare purchased as a sport horse. She had all the genetic and physical qualities to compete at a high level in sport, but lacked the winning mentality. She was extremely sensitive, had little self-confidence and her anxieties prevented her from being a competitor. In addition, she was extremely introverted, did not communicate and even came to somatise her moods with colic and respiratory issues which very much resembled panic attacks. I now found myself facing a completely opposite case to the one I had successfully solved years earlier: the first horse "screamed" his discomfort, my current mare had given up on communicating.

With her I did not immediately find the key to solving her problems and decided to give her a break, thinking that motherhood could help her mature and grow. Her foal already showed the same hypersensitivity at birth which was probably genetically inherited.

This was an opportunity to put my method into practice from the very first moments of the foals life, with the aim of building trust, self-confidence and a winning mentality from the beginning rather than having to correct previous negative imprints.

08/08/2022

WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THE COURSE:
There are 6 modules accessible in over 120 pages of downloadable theoretical material. Included in each module, is a learning assessment questionnaire and related answers, over 100 explanatory images, photographic sequences, diagrams, concept maps and 130 minutes of instructional videos.

You will have access to:
Exercise books
Trainer Guidelines Manual
Reference book
"Logbook" of the training course
Final learning assessment test
Certificate of attendance at the end of the course

04/08/2022

Welcome!
If you love horses and you agree that each individual is the result of the experiences he has accumulated over his existence; if you think that each subject has unique and personal characteristics; if the well-being of your horse comes first and you want to establish more effective communication with him; if you have or plan to have a foal and want to educate and train it in respect of its nature with a method based on communication and listening, then you are in the right place!
The Honey Method is based on ethological principles and has been developed after over twenty years of studies and proposes an innovative approach to the education and training of the foal from birth to taming, but it can also be of great help in the re-education of problem horses that have received negative imprinting or traumatic experiences during their life.

01/08/2022

31/07/2022