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  • 01/10
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    Are training methods in the equestrian industry outdated? Thoughts on the welfare of horses.

    In light of World Animal Day taking place on the 4th of October I did…

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  • 10/03
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    Voice, Contact and Touch – necessary skills when greeting the horse.

    There are three points to consider when greeting your horse. 🌾 1.) Voice. 2.) Eye…

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    What YOU and HORSES taught me in the past year.

    I thought it would be appropriate as one of my first to blogs to reflect on…

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Instagram post 2186487076839682624_1521205172 You cannot force a relationship. You cannot make someone like you or love you or do what you want—aside from paying somebody a lot of money or owning a slave. 🦋 ⚘ 🦋 ⚘ Forcing a horse to give us what we want does not make a relationship happen. We can force horses to give us a performance or work for us, but that is not a partnership. ⚘ 🦋 ⚘ 🦋 Forcing a horse over a jump he fears with a whip, then caressing his face or giving him an apple is incongruent. It is like saying, “I command you to obey me; now I command you to love me for it.” I am not saying horses do not take pride in or enjoy their work; they certainly may when it is presented the right way. 🦋 ⚘ 🦋 ⚘ 🦋 However, if we approach a horse with the mixed message of, on the one hand, needing to feel love, connection, partnership, or affection, and on the other hand, needing the horse to boost our own ego or image with the perfect performance at a show or the best time in a race, then on neither hand have we shown up for the horse. ⚘ 🦋 ⚘ 🦋 I want everyone to feel what it is like to have your horse line himself up at the mounting block with eagerness. 🦋 ⚘ 🦋 ⚘ - Sharon Wilsie. ⚘ 🦋 ⚘ 🦋 PC: @rockin_a_photo
Instagram post 2182115235207340761_1521205172 Horses value space. Let me say that again: Horses value space more than food, water, shelter, comfort, and touch. If a horse does not have space to move, he cannot escape, and Mother Nature designed him to be a master of fleeing. 🌾 🌿 🌾 🌿 🌾 When horses feel crowded by us, if we invade their “personal bubble” all the time, if we never let up on the pressure, they have no space. 🌾 🌿 🌾 🌿 🌾 When a horse steps away from you, turns his head away from you, or otherwise moves over for you, he is giving you room. 🌾 🌿 🌾 🌿 🌾 Horses use space like money: when they really like you, they give you the thing they most covet—space to be. 🌾 🌿 🌾 🌿 🌾 - Sharon Wilsie
Instagram post 2180696174355440322_1521205172 Horses are not machines, motorcycles, or computers. We tend to want a timely response, especially when we are riding at higher levels, but we need to remember that horses think slowly but react quickly. 💓 🌛 💓 🌛 💓 This often means we are getting reactive answers, not thoughtful ones. Over time, when a horse really comprehends a cue with everything in his being and is not afraid to execute that maneuver, he can practice doing it with speed. 🌛 💓 🌛 💓 🌛 We have been taught that a horse must be “forward” first to have the essential impulsion, rhythm, and balance needed to perform; however, the horse is then only learning by rote, which does not allow him to contemplate the essence of the lesson. 💓 🌛 💓 🌛 💓 The risk of a horse in this situation being triggered into hyper-vigilance and survival mode is very close to the surface. 🌛 💓 🌛 💓 🌛 Slow way, way down to renegotiate everything you are trying to do or say to your horse. 💓 🌛 💓 🌛 💓 - Sharon Wilsie
Instagram post 2178516238530025326_1521205172 “The Chalou Reach” 😍 🔮 😍 🔮 😍 🔮 Ph. @angelikagrabowska.foto
Instagram post 2175756588797901727_1521205172 There is a saying that the horse is a reflection of ourselves; 🔮 🌙 🌜 🌙 🔮 I would suggest that the way we paint the image of the horse *IS* as the reflection of ourselves. 🔮 🌙 🌜 🌙 🔮 If all the horse does is become reactive and we label him as “rude,” that says more about us than it does about him. 🔮 🌙 🌜 🌙 🔮 Remember, horses are prey animals, and Mother Nature put those reactions in there for a reason. 🔮 🌙 🌛 🌙 🔮 - Sharon Wilsie
Instagram post 2174854728033452918_1521205172 The challenge with horses, as I have come to understand it, is that we want two opposing values to be reached: we want obedience, but we also want love. 🌙 💓 🍃 💓 🌙 Obey me and love me are two entirely different expectations. I have experienced horses who have incredible loyalty and would work for me all day long, but my goal is to also reach the “inner self” of those horses and create a situation in which their skin and heart is in the game with me…not in obedience to me. 🌙 💓 🍃 💓 🌙 This may sound like a picky word choice, but sometimes tiny shifts in awareness create a waterfall of change. 🌙 💓 🍃 💓 🌙 - Sharon Wilsie, Horse Speak.
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