“Waiting to Exhale”

The Benefits of Your Horse Letting All His Air Out

Have you ever experienced one of the following?

Your horse won’t relax.

Your horse never lets down all the way.

Your horse “seems” quiet, or even lazy, but he is still tightly wound on the inside.

This month’s horsemanship idea is as simple as it gets to help solve some of those issues.

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“A Simple Way to Become One With a Horse”

If you’re like me, it’s easy to get on your horse, but still be “heady.”

It goes like this.

You step up on your horse and you bring all your frenetic mental jibberish with you.

Not enough time. Stuff that just happened. What’s for dinner? How you rode last time that didn’t work. Who’s at the barn today? Yaddie, yaddie, yah.

By this time you’ve gone around the ring about 10 times on your horse. He’s been kind enough to carry you, but you’re not really connected to him or to the task at hand.

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“Help Your Horse Regain His Focus by Doing Something Familiar”

Has your horse ever been anxious, or distracted and you weren’t sure how to handle the situation?

There is an action you can fall back on when your horse needs to regain focus … for whatever reason.

It’s an exercise designed to help you regain communication with your horse by engaging him in something he already knows how to do.

It’s utilizing a sequence of actions he knows to bring him back to a feeling of steadiness, calmness and focus.

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