What makes horses comfortable? It matters, oh yes it does. The more time spent with horses the more noticeable it is that their comfort is connected to their behavior. Horses become more amenable the more comfortable they are. An amenable horse is a willing horse, eager to do a good job. The problem is, how [...]
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Live to ride, right?! Every year offers a new season for what I like best about my WOW saddle. This year’s reason is that it gives me the controls to stay out of my horses’ way. Then he can handle himself. I give him the aids to direct him and repeat the movements to gain [...]
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Ask ten people watching a horse and rider work through a training challenge and you will hear ten different detailed descriptions with a solution, all valid. If you ask vets it’s the same thing. Everyone responds with that which is immediately on their mind, the latest research or current hot topic they are exploring. I [...]
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This blog name has been changed to The Athletic Horse. I apologize for any confusion from cached google links. This post is here to help you navigate to the site or the blog easily. Thank you for your shared interest!
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and The Athletic Horse blog are now live. It’s a banner moment. I look forward to great riding this spring. Is anything better evidence that all is right with the world than when a plan comes together with your horse?
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Thinking outside the box, is my source of inspiration. Mastering a method of equine massage therapy begun in the mid-1980′s proves it. Being the first equine massage therapist on the A Show Circuit from 1985 to 1988 established my business. It is anti-aging for horses. It enhances performance and advances ability, painlessly, with long term [...]
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Riding or horsemanship is an art. There is no denying riding is a creative expression of a partnership. Let us listen to what one creative genius hears from another. It goes to the heart of creativity, to art. Riders are often quoting, seeking or referring back to a Master of earlier days. To those ancestors [...]
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* Are your rides as happy, and filled with the joy and satisfaction as you want them to be?
* Is it a skip and a smile that buoys you to the barn? Or are you making yourself go out and ride?
* Do you feel guilty about the time you spend riding? Is it too little, or is it too much? Do you want to get it just right?
* Have you connected with your horse in the 'silent syllable' in which his spirit dwells? Or are you berating yourself over your riding?
* have more confidence and trust,
* take a more humanist approach to riding
* become better balanced in your bend,
* feel an easier response when asking for energy,
* strengthen your seat and give your aids more easily
* sit up tall and more relaxed,
* have buttery giving and sensitive taking hands,
* share more camaraderie,
* fulfill wishes... Get A WOW now!
