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02/08/2024

Δασκαλε... Δεν σε ξεχνάμε!

02/08/2023

Never forgotten!

07/02/2021

24/12/2020

Καλά Χριστούγεννα σε όλους!
Υγεία και να χαμογελάτε!
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29/09/2020

Worth reading!

25/02/2020

Nice said!

Every once in awhile I will have a thought come to me that's quite profound, and I will write it down in my notes on my phone so I don't forget it, then I'll forget it.

At the clinic on the weekend Benedikte Whitman asked me "so on the ground, we get them to connect to us to get them to relax, but once we aren't in front of them, and we are riding them, how does it work then?"

I said "hold on a minute, I wrote something in my notes on my phone once about this". I had to scroll through a few notes, as it was a while ago, but I finally found it. It said :

"The connection is not necessarily to you, it's to themselves".

I have often likened the focus work to a guided meditation, where you are the facilitator. When their attention wanders, you help guide it back to them. The same with a guided meditation, the guide doesnt guide you back to them, but back to you. Back into your own body.

When horses are anxious, their mind is not in the same place as their body. The focus work helps guide the mind back to the same general area where their body is. In the flowchart, where it says that if your horse is highly distracted, and they walk off and hit the end of the lead rope, as they do use the flag to attract their thoughts back to where they are. I will do that if they walk off and their mind is distracted, but if they walk off sniffing the ground, I will leave them alone as their thoughts are exactly where their body is, there's no benefit interrupting that and getting them to think about you. Many times that is where they really find peace, and will circle around sniffing the ground and lay down.

Sometimes we forget with our training that it's not all about us, it's about us helping them.

(photo of our yearling Chance relaxing in his pasture just for a chance to share some Chance spam).

03/01/2020

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