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When working with the nature of horses you do not need to “get it done” to advance your horse’s training. Evolution will do it for you. Nature is always working for us if we can be in tune with it. Removing the Focus on Force The celebrated method of horse training in this country is [...]
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Wondering how to begin Liberty Dancing with Your Horse? The “Beyond the Waterhole Rituals” students of 2011 will show you… it is easy, you begin with a smile and “Step By Step”… We’ve just finished the “Beyond The Waterhole Rituals” clinic and would love to share the week in photos with you… horse meditations, single [...]
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Leadership with horses is so easy. They are herd animals. It is natural for horses to lead and to follow. But when we begin to train they can seem to be resistant to the whole idea of us taking a leadership role with them. Often this response is because the person training the [...]
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Here are a few updates from our horse program in the Caribbean. First of all enjoy a new video!!
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It is amazing to me how approaching a daily connection with my horses can make such a difference. The daily connection can make the behavior of the horse be either balanced for a good ride or a ride that would be full of resistance. To get on the good side of a horse, I [...]
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Creating a relationship with a horse by waiting for a horse to start the relationship makes a horse easy to train because you have his full attention. Working a horse at liberty with my method, the horse has an ability to avoid you if he chooses. This causes a person to stop chasing or [...]
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Talley and her Mongolian Adventure A dear long time friend of mine, Talley Hutcherson, took an amazing outdoor adventure journey to Mongolia. She brought me back a reindeer carving. I got to hear about her adventure that included harsh weather, snow, her illness, and sleeping in Mongolian tents. She traveled on horseback with other [...]
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Benefits for the Waterhole Rituals and my focus working with horses Once I have the Waterhole Rituals developed on my horse, I have a horse that is eager to learn new things like playing with a ball. Once I have the Waterhole Rituals as my foundation, my horse has an ability to learn new [...]
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I went to Return to Freedom and just got back. I have my Insider Circle and extended Circle classes right now so I did not have much time to spend there. I left Tuesday for Return to Freedom and returned last night on Wednesday at 3 in the morning. I am just a little [...]
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We are learning to ride with our horses. It’s a wonderful journey. Stina, Certified Instructor and working students Kristine and Anne are coached by Carolyn to ride with the herd at liberty.
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Liberty Training™ is simply developing a partnership with a horse without tack or fences and allowing the process and partnership to unfold naturally. Of course it helps to know the true nature of horses and the horse you are dealing with. It also helps to understand how horses train other horses, build social skills with [...]
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I learned that if a horse felt impatient for a treat, he saw himself in a higher ranking position from the one that was going to give him the treat. A higher-ranking horse would never allow impatience from another horse wanting him to share his food. If a horse takes a treat with a lot [...]
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Treating in the Moment of Connection: When I first worked with the Waterhole Rituals as a child and then into my adulthood, I did not use treats. The reason is that I wanted to be sure the horse responded to me because he truly liked me, and would respond to me like he would with [...]
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The purpose of my blog is to make a connection with you. I can connect with people all over the world, thanks to the computer, and we can explore and correspond with one another on the experiences we’re having with our horses in our life! I also use the blog as a way, to educate, [...]
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Welcome To My Blog -To Get You Started! Special Horse’s I had been looking for a special horse long before Stony had passed on. Stony has been gone now for about five years; still I had not found the horse I was looking for. Stony and I were together for 35 years. I [...]
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Announcement: Robin Gates Clinic Click the image below to view PDF flyer. You’re going to love this video – it is from Robin Gates. This video is going to show how active horses are and how important it is to bring activities like the Waterhole Rituals ™ ,beyond riding and training, to our horses. [...]
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In all of my years of being wildly attracted to horses, training them for show and having them serve me in some way; I used horses to always guide me in my approach in how to communicate with them through getting their approval as well as their performance. It was always a spiritual [...]
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The purpose of the Insider Circle and Extended Circle online courses is to develop a cross species bond that creates your horses’ interest to follow your lead, learn new behaviors, and have an optimistic attitude when you go to ride your horse. This special bond will remove resistance, bad attitude, and unwanted behaviors like [...]
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This is the first in a series of 20 videos by Certified Carolyn Resnick Instructor, Stina Herberg. Over the next 6 months, Stina will be working with Carolyn to produce the series entitled, “Riding at Liberty”. You will follow as Stina as Carolyn teaches her to ride and communicate with her horses on their [...]
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Horses and humans had a good time together in our co-creative process through the online courses that just took place. Thank you for the flowers, gifts, and cards you have sent me in appreciation of my course. Most all of you in the class spoke of your gratefulness for the experience and what you got [...]
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A few benefits you will gain from practicing this lesson is how to communicate with your body language, how to get your horse to wait, your horse learns to come when called, and that your horse can move away when you ask him to. Sounds Good! If you have any questions please post them. Today [...]
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Here it is what I promised you, a REAL lesson at Liberty. The “how to” portion of the lesson will be in Thursday’s blog. I am taking Tuesday’s blog to explain some points to get you started. Isn’t it a crazy idea to think of training your horse at liberty before you train him with [...]
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I wrote my book Naked Liberty to provide the missing link in all training methods, including my own. That missing link is what the individual horse and individual human bring to the table. We must consider the horse as an individual. All relationships in life require this knowledge of one another, if the relationship is [...]
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The unity in movement in a herd is created by the subtle interactions that individual horses share with one another. Like with us, in our human culture, it is the little things in life that draws us to someone and repels us from others. Believe it or not, this is what brings harmony and unity [...]
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Today I want to share with you part of a response to one of my Insider Circle students that I thought might be of interest to my bloggers: It is important for mankind to see value of nurturing a bond with others and to care about them more than our self-serving needs. [...]
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Here is a new video round – starting to ride at liberty.
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The practice of Leading From Behind™ brings the horse a sense of belonging. With practice, it will help your horse to listen to his bonding instincts. A horse that gets to practice his instincts receives well being and enthusiasm for life and builds a healthy ego. From the practice of Leading From Behind we are [...]
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As the Insider Circle and Extended Circle classes are going on, I want to share with my bloggers and the class more detail on how to approach Leading From Behind™ that I offered to Karin in the comments section of my last blog. I also added some information about how to approach your horse with [...]
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One of the things about the Waterhole Rituals is that you can’t just throw the Rituals at the horse. They are not designed to be used that way. That is what is so wonderful about working with me in the Insider Circle course, and why it is so important to take advantage of this program [...]
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Something I’d like to explain is that there is a cellular connection that we can experience with our horse. If you have studied science, you may be familiar with the theory that the molecular structure of something becomes very similar to the structure that it is next to, and grows more connected the longer it [...]
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