Choose Personalized, Meaningful Goals For You and Your Horse
Frequently when I ask new students what their goals are for starting a riding program, I am met with blank stares. Their love of horses gets them into my barn but they aren’t quite sure where they want to go from there. For beginners, getting down the mechanics of riding by engaging in naive practice…
Does your inner dialogue create growth and expansion or constriction?
The expression of an inner dialogue through words, emotion, images, sound, feeling and/or text is one of the ways that our human brains process the world around us. Not everyone experiences a voice giving an ongoing narration of their day. For some people it may be a sound, a picture or a visceral response that…
Add Purpose to your Practice
Incorporate the process of working in a specific, purposeful and strategic way to improve your horsemanship Have you fallen into a rut with your horse? You go to the barn and ride every night but the same problems keep cropping up and you can’t seem to get past them. Maybe you have tried the occasion…
Can you see yourself getting better?
Using visualization to improve our training sessions In the pursuit of training our minds to be better equestrians, visualization is a powerful tool available to us for free. When I was first introduced to the concept as a teenager in the 1980’s I certainly was not aware of any research on the subject, it was…
Worry about Horsemanship?
Half-wit, I will conclude. Things to worry about: Worry about courageWorry about cleanlinessWorry about efficiencyWorry about horsemanship… Things not to worry about: Don’t worry about popular opinionDon’t worry about dollsDon’t worry about the pastDon’t worry about the futureDon’t worry about growing upDon’t worry about anybody getting ahead of youDon’t worry about triumphDon’t worry about failure…
Welcome to my journey
This is a first for me, writing a blog. I’ve never fancied myself much of a writer. I’ve alway been more of the reading type. As I write this the world is just coming out of the coronavirus quarantine. It feels like such a strange time to have lived through but the slow pace has…
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Mindset Equitation 