Restarting a Sensitive OTTB Mare https://youtu.be/7-kBK63ow5Y Sometimes the biggest breakthroughs don’t come from the horse at all. They come when the human learns where to stand, how to ask, and how to hold a clear boundary. This session focuses on coaching the owner through the basics of groundwork with feel. By revisiting familiar exercises likeContinueContinue reading “Elke & Lola – Session 3.2”
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Elke & Lola – Session 3.1
Restarting a Sensitive OTTB Mare https://youtu.be/e0zNrw4WatQ Sometimes the most powerful breakthroughs in horse training aren’t dramatic. They’re found in the quiet moment when a horse chooses connection over resistance. In this real-time session, I revisit foundational groundwork with a mare who tends to push into pressure and is reactive when unsure. You’ll see how clearContinueContinue reading “Elke & Lola – Session 3.1”
Sally & Freya – Session 5.2
Helping a Shutdown Horse https://youtu.be/wnSLeDvajEA This session is rider coaching in real time. I’m guiding Freya to read the horse and to notice her own body in space. We treat pressure and release as a shared language: a dance of ask, answer, and pause. Feel is how we listen; timing and clarity are how weContinueContinue reading “Sally & Freya – Session 5.2”
Sally & Freya – Session 5.1
Helping a Shutdown Horse https://youtu.be/x3W9y00D6Qg This session captures a quiet but powerful shift in Sally’s emotional state. In earlier work, she tended to freeze or dissociate under pressure – giving the “right” answer without truly feeling it. Today, we see the beginning of something new: subtle engagement, thoughtful tries, and real-time communication through movement. It’sContinueContinue reading “Sally & Freya – Session 5.1”
Elke & Lola – Session 2
Restarting a Sensitive OTTB Mare https://youtu.be/AKzwRy-BxBI In this session, I continue working with Lola – a sensitive, intelligent, and sometimes overreactive Thoroughbred mare. With Elke still unwell, I took the opportunity to revisit and gently progress the work we started in Session 1. My focus for this session was on refining Lola’s response to steadyContinueContinue reading “Elke & Lola – Session 2”
Sally & Freya – Session 4
Helping a Shutdown Horse https://youtu.be/Y09u9Up8qPs This session marks a real turning point in Sally’s training journey. While earlier sessions focused on building trust, connection, and giving Sally choice, we’re now laying down real foundations: consistency, communication, clarity, and essential groundwork skills. It’s still slow and thoughtful, but now we’re laying bricks instead of just clearingContinueContinue reading “Sally & Freya – Session 4”
Sally & Freya – Session 3
Helping a Shutdown Horse https://youtu.be/43XRMdWBlgo In this solo EquiTrain session without Freya, I spent time deeply observing and exploring where Sally is truly at. This session became a rich opportunity to gather data, reflect, and meet her honestly in the moment. What unfolded confirmed something I’ve been sensing: while confidence-building is still on the horizon,ContinueContinue reading “Sally & Freya – Session 3”
Sally & Freya – Session 2
Helping a Shutdown Horse https://youtu.be/gttsDIp02tA In Session 2 of Sally’s 8-week EquiKinder journey, I dive deeper into her subtle responses to pressure, emotional shutdown, and signs of a possible fawn response. As Freya and I work through groundwork basics like steady pressure, rhythmic motion, and confidence-building exercises, I begin to question whether Sally’s initial shutdownContinueContinue reading “Sally & Freya – Session 2”
Elke & Lola – Session 1
Restarting a Sensitive OTTB Mare https://youtu.be/YRDzswpYSvk This is the first solo groundwork session I had with Lola, a sweet, reactive off-the-track Thoroughbred (OTTB) mare. With her teenage rider Elke away, this session gave me space to return to the basics and gently stretch Lola beyond her emotional comfort zone. Lola is not a “problem horse.”ContinueContinue reading “Elke & Lola – Session 1”
Sally & Freya – Session 1
Helping a Shutdown Horse https://youtu.be/KeIS8NKx0Dg Welcome to the first session of our EquiKinder journey with Sally, a sensitive, shutdown Brumby mare who often retreats inward when life gets overwhelming. In this episode, we begin building trust through simple, repeatable exercises designed to gently spark her curiosity and awareness without pushing her into shut down. TogetherContinueContinue reading “Sally & Freya – Session 1”
