All horse handling and riding should be safe and enjoyable, and all horse training should be gentle, but effective. Learn how to create a cooperative partnership by helping your horse address and work through problems rather than avoid them. Having access to a large collection of Natural Horsemanship training techniques will enable you to develop a mutual level of trust and confidence as you build a genuine partnership with your horse. Whether you ride English or Western, the same techniques will create a highly cooperative and bonded horse. Whatever area of equine activity you are involved with (dressage, pleasure riding, hunter jumper, polo, show ring, endurance, western pleasure, reining, barrel racing, trail riding, track racing, etc.), the quality of your horse's performance and your pleasure and safety will benefit from learning these Natural Horsemanship techniques, which involve:

Learning that if you work with your horse proactively rather than reactively, you will more quickly achieve a higher level of partnership.

Learning techniques for deeper bonding, which is the first step for truly connecting with your horse, and one of the most important for a very good reason: bonding lays the foundation for all other training steps that follow. First impressions are important and lasting, so bonding in the beginning ensures making the most pleasureful first impression (every day!) possible.

Learning the concepts and precise timing of pressure and release from pressure, which is the foundation for all training, and is a gentle, but effective way to establish communication with your horse.

Learning how to create a safe and protective place that the horse can be drawn back into for reassurance when needed if the horse is ever frightened or confused. This builds even greater trust, which will later translate over into the saddle for safer riding.

Learning how to move your horse with accuracy – on the ground first and later in the saddle.  This groundwork sets up the foundation for later sending your horse into a trailer, through a gate, into a stall, etc., easily and willingly.  This will also help you refine communication with your horse.

Learning the "one-rein-stop" on the ground first, saving you and your horse from possible injury in the future in the saddle.

Learning how to desensitize your horse to anything he is afraid of, teaching the horse to react rationally, rather than irrationally, creating a safer all-around horse. Rather than avoid fear areas, you will learn how to search out and openly address, compassionately and productively, many of the horse's fears ahead of time. A horse who is inclined to buck or run away with a rider, or who even leaps startlingly in fright, is dangerous, and is generally exhibiting "irrational behavior." Therefore, directly addressing fears proactively – on the ground first –  helps the horse to process challenges better, and then to learn "rational," or safer, behavior for coping with his fears, present and future. All horses are instinctive "flight" animals, when afraid. However, you can improve the horse's fear threshold as you desensitize your horse more deeply. This flushes out and then smoothes the trouble spots for far safer and pleasurable riding; safer for you, and safer for the horse!

Learning exercises on the ground and then later in the saddle that will lead to equine confidence, graceful movement, and athleticism. Your horse will learn rational movement and how to positively focus his energy, while also teaching proper turns on the forehand and turns on the haunches. The horse will learn how to back up on cue, on the ground and later in the saddle, and how to pay attention and respond to "softness" in the lead rope or reins. Your horse then will be better prepared mentally and physically for any subsequent riding endeavor.

Learning in the saddle, through a series of fluid maneuvers, how the horse can be taught to be a safe, cooperative and willing riding partner. You will learn a series of exercises which promotes horse and rider safety by practicing how to regroup back to a safe place for bonding when needed.

Learning all of the above will prepare you and your horse for whatever type of riding endeavor you wish to pursue. Your horse will mentally and physically be ready for a great day of riding, and so will you!

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