"Horses are not merely lumps of clay where strongly squeezing and pressing on them will make them soft" Many people ...
When it comes to horse welfare we all need to play a part, but even though it 'will take a village', personal ...
Training horses, like most things, does not happen in a straight line. Even if you have one clearly defined goal (to do ...
Prefer to listen? I covered this in my podcast. Horse Training In Harmony, episode 156 Words matter. Often we use words ...
At a clinic a few years ago, at the last moment, I threw away my plan for the first session and did something ...
Why Partnership Is Not Enough Starting in the late 1990s, I changed from control-based training to communication-based ...
I've coached students from multiple disciplines and levels on a variety of breeds of horses, coming from a range of ...
Prefer to listen? Click HERE to go to a podcast on this subject. Have you been told by an instructor that you need to ...
I was given a very lovely young warmblood who I was told (after they gave him to me) was diagnosed with shivers. For ...
Prefer to listen? I did a podcast that includes this subject. You can listen HERE Can you motivate your horse to offer ...
How do you know if your horse is happy? There are 7 interviews in this series (so far)! You can find them all by going ...
Settle in for my thoughts on how to know your horse is happy and how to increase his levels of happiness! (45 min ...
This blog is about how to make The Decision... The decision about how to know if it's time to euthanize your beloved ...
(Prefer to listen? Check out my podcast on this subject) What if… In any moment of tension, there was one question you ...
When someone says they do dressage, you can picture them doing specific movements like half pass, pirouettes, and ...
In a previous blog I wrote about how intention is the main aid we use with horses so they know the difference between ...
In the Q&A calls we do for our online programs, we often get questions about how to handle things when you take ...
Prefer to listen? Check out Karen's podcast on this subject. Many riders aren't enjoying the process of training or ...
Out of all the videos I have made, there is one video that has gotten more attention than all the others. You can see ...
Prefer to listen? Check out Karen's podcast episode on all 9 Habits For Excellent Horsemanship. Part 3: Feel, ...
"Inside leg!", "Outside rein!", "Shorten your reins!" Ahh ... the sounds of a typical riding lesson! I learned long ago ...
"If you're not growing you're going backwards" "Not all movement is progress" Those are the statements that stick in my ...
My ultimate vision is to progress with my horses gymnastically as far as we can go together in a way that builds our ...
Prefer to listen? Check out Karen's podcast on this subject. On one of our weekly Q & A calls in the Sweet Spot of ...
Q: I have a 6 yr old horse who never was really in front of the leg, but now she gets sticky, refuses to go into trot, ...
Prefer to listen? Check out Karen's podcast episode on all 9 Habits For Excellent Horsemanship. Part 2: Curiosity, ...
Perhaps you know the childhood game: “Mother, May I?” In this game the players line up, and the ‘mother’ calls to one ...
OK, here are just some informal, semi-rambling thoughts on something I consciously seek and often achieve in the ...
Prefer to listen? Check out Karen's podcast episode on all 9 Habits For Excellent Horsemanship. Part 1: Partnership, ...
As a dressage professional and 're-naturalized horseman', I understand the importance of building complex maneuvers ...
