Episode 277: Two ways you may be disconnecting from your horse

Train Your Own Horse with Stacy Westfall

In this podcast, Stacy explains two unintentional releases riders often overlook and the challenges they cause for the horse. These are also things that can happen in your everyday life.

Topics include:

• freezing, shrinking, and withdrawing
• rider’s lack of awareness of the horse’s experience
• how to solve for freezing
• the challenge of lowering energy, hoping to calm horse
• avoiding ‘offending’ the horse
• redirecting energy
• scared horses being un-guided
• determined horses and ‘open doors’

Noticing how these things happen in 'real life' is an amazing opportunity to understand yourself better, which will improve your time with your horse.