RELAXED AND FORWARD: Since 2010, an archive of weekly horse training essays. My dogs say it's their turn now. Happy to oblige, it's all affirmative. Including words from a gray mare on the fine art of aging cantankerously.
Human Calming Signals: Help Your Horse to Take Your Cue
You think it's a simple task you're asking your horse to do. You use an affirmative approach, not willing to...
Nube: How to Train a Horse to be Patient
I don't like cameras. How you can tell is my neck swells up and my double chins flare out wider...
Human Calming Signals: Actions Louder than Words
"Anna, after reading this piece I realized that I know how to do this; just not with horses. As a...
Undomesticated Women, Anecdotal Evidence from the Road
Amanda and Stable Relation at the Pan Am Games. I don't know if I told you......
Focus is Active Listening. Horses Do It Naturally.
I had a friend who used to write me little vignettes about the antics of her and her horse at...
Do You Have Coyote Eyes? How to Look Without Looking
Can you tell when someone's looking at you? Or maybe a child in a waiting room, or it could be...
Peaceful Persistence, a Horse Training Manifesto
What does "not conceding" mean? Oh, I can't wait to bray about this, says this trainer whose spirit animal...
Calming Signals: What If Horses Are Meant to be a Mystery?
I'm not sure when I started sitting on horses, but I hadn't started school. You couldn't really call it riding....
Legacy: We’re Riding for the Next Horse
Driving home through northern Colorado yesterday, I passed the Berthoud off-ramp. Otherwise known as the Grandfather Horse off-ramp. I've only...
Bhim: Through Life Drama and Training Plateaus
It's been six months now since starting Bhim's Training Diary online. But time is a fluid thing for a horse....
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