Thursday, November 26th, 2009...6:37 am
A beautiful alternative to Rollkur
You know what you want you and your horse to look like and what you want to achieve together (if you are like me, that may change from time to time). But right now, you have a picture in your mind and you probably already know that you can’t get there if you use force of any kind.
If you are a dressage rider, then that picture is probably of a powerful collection, a rhythm, a cadence, a dance with you and your horse in complete mental, emotional, physical and maybe even spiritual harmony together. Others of you will have other goals.
So if using force of any kind completely stuffs up that picture, then how can you get there?
- Clear, gentle communication as a consistent norm.
- A complete absence of any fear or resistance from you or your horse.
- Heaps of happy co-operation from your horse.
- A complete willingness of your horse to help you get what it is that you both want or need.
- A connection with your horse so strong that they tell you how to get what you want.
- Consistent growth of yourself as a rider.
Oh yeah? That’s easy to say, but for those of us who have struggled with one or more aspects of those things (isn’t that all of us?) how can we have all of that?
Every person who reads this, including you, are already connected to their horse.
But most of you do not yet know how to use that connection deliberately to get what you and your horse want from each other.
Whether you are a Grand Prix rider looking for another way, or an enthusiastic beginner, the book and audio lesson set “Zen Connection with Horses” will show you how to use that connection, consciously and deliberately to get what you and your horse want and need from each other.
The book sets the scene. Then the CD contains eight simple little audio lessons that you download into your MP3 player and take out to your horse, where I take you step by step through a process of understanding how you experience your connection with your horse and set you up to take that into the future with everything that you do together.
While working with those audio lessons, you will have the opportunity to release old fears and resistances from you and your horse that will bring incredible joyfulness to you and your horse.
I have a student who confessed to me once that she read my stuff about joyfulness with her horse and thought that I was being a bit “over the top” and exaggerating. She found it in day 2 or 3 of her clinic with me – with tears from both of us.
We find that joyfulness for ourselves when we gift it to our horse. And we start that gift to our horse by releasing them and us from old fear and resistances.
There are no doubt many paths to your dream of a powerful dance with your horse – Zen Connection with Horses is one of them.
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