Thrive & Shine Equine

22/07/2025

Lovely explanation by Anna and Viva 💕

19/07/2025

👉Let's talk conscious muscle relaxation in horse training - adapted from a well understood biofeedback process utilised in elite level human sports performance - that restores functional health and remove blockages limiting performance potentials!

OneHorseLife iconic techniques Relax That Stomach & Optimal Performance Program provide a systematic, step by step road map 🗺️ to take you and your horse on a TRANSFORMATIVE journey. These techniques are simple in application but highly sophisticated in nature, and yield profound results. They are applicable for amateur and professionals alike, and for ALL horses regardless their age, breed, background or training discipline....WHY IS THIS?

👉Because all horses (in fact any species governed by a central nervous system) experience tension vs relaxation at a biological level within their bodies. It is this natural process that can either work for the horse or against them in their every day lives! With Relax That Stomach & Optimal Performance Program techniques the horse gains the skills to make RELAXATION work for them - eliminating residual tensions that otherwise trigger a multitude of health and behavioural issues, instead learning to CONSCIOUSLY release them. This produces very happy, healthy horses!

👉If you and your horse struggle with any of the following issues then this work is for you:

❓Separation anxiety/herd bound
❗️Hypervigilant/spooky behaviour
❓Dull/lazy/behind the leg
❗️Girthy or dislikes touch/grooming
❓Trouble lifting legs for farrier
‼️Aggressive
❓Emotional around food
⁉️Overweight or underweight
❗️Poor topline
❓Ulcers
❗️Colic history
❓Wind sucking/crib biting

OR perhaps your horse is recovering from injury/illness, has been out of work for a while or is transitioning to a new life eg OTTB...or you just wish to maximise your performance potentials...

Then we welcome you to join us to take a deep dive into how you and your horse can move through the above issues (and more) to enhance and redefine your training.

You will learn the skills to move on from these issues and at the same time build a beautiful connection with your horse and unlock 🔓 their potential - in fact you may be very surprised at the horse you meet on the other side!
🔑 This is where RELATIONSHIP & PERFORMANCE goals can co exist.

We have an upcoming OHL 🇦🇺 Introductory Seminar being held in Brisbane in August.

📧 [email protected] for registration details or DM to find out more.

What are you waiting for? Reach out today to secure your seat!

11/07/2025

Problem: Reduced desire to move due to accumulation of residual tension…

Solution: The powerful signature methods of Relax That Stomach, Optimal Perfomance Program and Residual Tension Release Therapy from OneHorseLife.

Our next Brisbane based introductory seminar outlining these methods will be held next month. Participants will gain valuable insight into the root cause of numerous undesirable horse behaviors and health issues, and more importantly a roadmap for resolving them without adding further tension or even directly addressing them. Curious?

You are welcome to join online from anywhere in Australia if you can’t make it in person. Please reach out to either myself or Eleanor through Eleanor Osborne - Highborne Equestrian - OHL Australia for more information.

Are you ready to ‘Change the Game’?

The perception of “laziness” can be a byproduct, a symptom of so many restrictions to and within a horses body. 💭

15/06/2025

Anna’s Riding Method and RTRT make such a powerful combination of techniques under saddle 🤩

24/04/2025

We held our OHL 🇦🇺 Easter Bootcamp last weekend and while there were many fab moments, this was a highlight 🤩

Mark and his lovely Gypsy Cob x Appaloosa gelding Jazz starting to put things together beautifully under saddle 👌

When these guys started with us after coming to a OHL 🇦🇺 Seminar, Jazz had a lot of worry that he internalised and expressed with a bad wind sucking habit. In fact he had to wear a collar most of the time.

🔑 Relax That Stomach released this particular set of tensions and he doesn’t need to collar now.
🔑 Optimal Performance Program has released further tension networks associated with distractions, restrictions and orders.
🔑 RTRT from the ground has reinstated the bit for relaxation and released residual tensions in the body in a therapeutic manner.

So now these guys are putting it all together under saddle and came for only their second ARM lesson 🙌 Jazz use to show anxiety under saddle curling deeply behind the vertical, or plunge down with the contact and also didn’t want to move into the canter without resistance.

Here we have a snippet of how a systematic approach to riding incorporating principles of Anna’s Riding Method and RTRT is able to strip away these problems, and restore pleasure in movement for the horse to explore! Down the track we will see the movement open up further but just look at that beautiful rhythm and swing 🥰

✅ first time ridden off usual training property in 18mths
✅ first walk to canter transition in 3yrs
✅ ability to maintain canter without resisting and pinning ears.

He looked so comfy I wanted to have a ride! So proud of these guys!

28/03/2025

I wholeheartedly recommend this course if you are looking to revolutionise your understanding of the bit and how it can be used as a tool for RELAXATION and therapeutic tension release.

✅ If you are introducing the bit to a young horse for the first times, this is a course for you.

✅ If you have a horse who has issues with the contact, this is the course for you.

✅ If, yourself are nervous of using a bit because you are concerned it has adverse effects on your horse, then this is definitely a great course for you 🙏

In this course you will take a deep dive into all aspects of RTRT: Residual Tension Release Therapy via The Bit and I guarantee you will love the experience!

The link below will take you directly to the official OneHorseLife website

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https://onehorselife.com/product/rtrt-getthatbitright/

Eleanor Osborne - Highborne Equestrian - OHL Australia and I are accredited RTRT trainers right here in Australia so please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have questions 👌

20/03/2025

Check out some great explanations about OneHorseLife training from a recently conducted Q&A by OHL Official!

Eleanor Osborne - Highborne Equestrian - OHL Australia and I are the only accredited One Horse Life trainers here in Australia and we offer a variety of learning experiences to get you started.

Keen to know more? Don't hesitate to DM today.

07/03/2025

Thinking of everyone in SE Queensland and northern NSW as we anxiously wait for Tropical Cyclone Alfred 🌀 to declare himself. This region has one of the most densely populated horse communities in the country so it is worrying times when we are trying to prepare both for our homes and families, as well as our horses 🤔

There has been a lot of great advice circulating this week about the practicalities of preparing for this weather. We are certainly use to torrential, flooding rains but the wind speeds 🌬️ of a cyclone added to the mix are a new factor for a lot of us.

If you still have access to your horses, here’s two additional tips for the coming days:

1) start loading them with hay 🌾 now. Hay will keep them occupied and filling their bellies with fibre will keep them warm🔥 Many horses will stop grazing during the inclemental weather so keeping the hay up to them will certainly help - but STAY SAFE in doing so!

2) if you know the OPP Basic Relaxation Technique (even if you haven’t practiced it for a while) now is a great time to pump relaxation into your horses! 👌It’s also great for you too! Don’t forget this in the aftermath of the storm as well 🙏

Our horses will be using a lot of energy and resources to brace against the weather and this means tension in the muscles and the nervous system as it does its job.

Helping them to relax these residual tensions in preparation, as well as after the event, will help them function optimally and also hopefully clear their minds and bodies to make good decisions!

Wishing everyone good luck and safe passage and here’s to sunny days again soon 🌈 ☀️

25/02/2025

EOI are open for our 2025 OHL 🇦🇺 Easter Bootcamp ! Eleanor Osborne - Highborne Equestrian - OHL Australia and I are excited to offer this event again this year.

This Bootcamp format enables you the opportunity to take a deeper dive into all things OneHorseLife.

Are you new to One Horse Life methods? Would you like to know more about how they can TRANSFORM your horses’ health, well being and performance? Then sign up for the OHL 🇦🇺 Introductory Seminar - Training Through Conscious Relaxation on Day 1.

If you have already completed the Relax That Stomach book, Mini Huge course online, or previously attended an Intro Seminar, you are welcome to join the Relax That Stomach clinic on Day 2 to hone your skills in guiding your horse through this crucial skill of releasing internal tensions: the key to dealing with many health and behavioural issues. Plus the opportunity exists to commence Optimal Performance Program tuition for those ready to progress.

Day 3 is an introduction to Residual Tension Release Therapy (RTRT) via the bit. Reinstate the bit as a tool for relaxation and clearing the body of residual tensions. Both theoretical and practical learning.

Day 4 is our Anna’s Riding Method seminar. We give you insight into how to support and organise your riding seat to facilitate harmonising with your horse’s movement phases. It’s a game changer!

If you would like to know more about any of the above, please get in touch via DM.

Expressions Of Interest close March 14th in order to finalise bookings for March 31st. Please email [email protected] to register.

17/02/2025

Great explanation of OneHorseLife Residual Tension Release Therapy and what it offers.

If you are interested in learning more about RTRT and other techniques from One Horse Life, please reach out today as Eleanor Osborne - Highborne Equestrian - OHL Australia and I are planning our next OHL 🇦🇺 Introductory Seminars and our annual Easter Bootcamp!

03/02/2025

I adore kids ponies 💜 a well educated, been there done that pony is worth their weight in gold. They have such an important job to do in teaching children to ride. Often in their lifetime a good pony will play that all important role several times over in different families as junior riders grow and the pony is handed like a precious gem to another child.

This is how Flynn, an Arabian Riding Pony, came to join our family 5 months ago as my son’s next pony 🙌 Flynn is 17yo, a very well educated school master and an all round sweet boy.

These precious ponies can reach a point where the years of looking after junior riders, compensating for a learner’s lack of balance while they develop a good seat and body awareness, can take its toll. Tensions accumulate and it can come a point where “age” seems to catch up.

However what is super exciting is being able to slow this process down completely, reverse a lot of signs seen as “age” related, and end up with a senior pony that is a picture of health with years of experience yet to give to their little riders!

Using the power of OneHorseLife training techniques rooted in conscious relaxation, we can teach the horse to release the tensions held in the body and restore health and well being.

What have we done for Flynn so far:
✅ Established a very good OPP Basic Relaxation Technique at both standstill and walk.
✅ Relax That Stomach technique to release internal tension networks held in the digestive tract.
✅ Commence Optimal Performance Program with Relaxation on Restriction of Frame, Relaxation on Distractions and Relaxation on Orders.

I love seeing the changes in his body 🙌

12/11/2024

This coming Saturday! We have one seat left ☺️ If you have been meaning to attend a OHL 🇦🇺 Introductory Seminar this will be the last opportunity for 2024! This is your chance to jump on board and find out how OneHorseLife techniques can help TRANSFORM your horse’s health, well being AND performance 🤩

Saturday 16th November we have our OHL 🇦🇺 Introductory Seminar ft Relax That Stomach & Optimal Performance Program running at Yarrawa (Kenmore) Pony Club. There are still some seats available. Reach out today to jump on board!

👉Let's talk conscious muscle relaxation in horse training - adapted from a well understood biofeedback process utilised in elite level human sports performance - that restores functional health and remove blockages limiting performance potentials!

OneHorseLife iconic techniques Relax That Stomach & Optimal Performance Program provide a systematic, step by step road map 🗺️ to take you and your horse on a TRANSFORMATIVE journey. These techniques are simple in application but highly sophisticated in nature, and yield profound results. They are applicable for amateur and professionals alike, and for ALL horses regardless their age, breed, background or training discipline....WHY IS THIS?

👉Because all horses (in fact any species governed by a central nervous system) experience tension vs relaxation at a biological level within their bodies. It is this natural process that can either work for the horse or against them in their every day lives! With Relax That Stomach & Optimal Performance Program techniques the horse gains the skills to make RELAXATION work for them - eliminating residual tensions that otherwise trigger a multitude of health and behavioural issues, instead learning to CONSCIOUSLY release them. This produces very happy, healthy horses!

👉If you and your horse struggle with any of the following issues then this work is for you:

❓Separation anxiety/herd bound
❗️Hypervigilant/spooky behaviour
❓Dull/lazy/behind the leg
❗️Girthy or dislikes touch/grooming
❓Trouble lifting legs for farrier
‼️Aggressive
❓Emotional around food
⁉️Overweight or underweight
❗️Poor topline
❓Ulcers
❗️Colic history
❓Wind sucking/crib biting

OR perhaps your horse is recovering from injury/illness, has been out of work for a while or is transitioning to a new life eg OTTB...or you just wish to maximise your performance potentials...

Then we welcome you to join us to take a deep dive into how you and your horse can move through the above issues (and more) to enhance and redefine your training.

You will learn the skills to move on from these issues and at the same time build a beautiful connection with your horse and unlock 🔓 their potential - in fact you may be very surprised at the horse you meet on the other side!
🔑 This is where RELATIONSHIP & PERFORMANCE goals can coexist!

What are you waiting for? Reach out today to secure your seat!