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04/01/2023

Anna’s signature technique “From Walk to Piaffe” is based on using conscious muscle relaxation in order to activate tendon-based movement and teach the horse how to shift from using kinetic horizontal energy of the walk to using vertical energy needed for piaffe.

The “vertical front leg” in Piaffe and lighter front is a sign that the horse indeed started to use his tendons to cumulate and release energy, allowing him to lift up his body better, and that the horse stopped doing piaffer by just jumping from leg to leg without usage of tendons, and only using muscles. When the horse only uses his muscles for piaffe then he becomes tense, and piaffe is very difficult. Horses piaffing using only muscles get angry and cranky doing it. When the horse learns to piaffe on tendons the movement becomes pleasurable and light because it leads to further relaxation of the body, and horses start to be playful and light on legs.

You can also see that he is shorter in the body (better compact frame) and that the horse lifts his back better — this is because when the horse starts to use tendons in the legs, he also starts to use tendons along the spine and the back can connect front and back of the horse better and start to serve as a major transferrer of the energy flow through the body.

I invite you wholeheartedly to join our MARCH LIVE BOOTCAMP 📅 3-5 MARCH 2023 📍🇳🇱 Netherlands ➡️ “From Walk to Piaffe” and learn TENDON BASED MOVEMENT in Piaffe application, this is a true GAME CHANGER 🤩🏆👑 in horse training!!!

Online course will be also available as of today!

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05/07/2022

TWO important training tips for today:

#1 Preparation time: although the time spent on preparing your young horse to be ridden (the groundwork, the long reins work, introducing the bit and RTRT work of relaxation with the bit) may feel like the time wasted or unnecessarily extended (because it takes so much time), one can see how much this time has paid off later when riding the horse: the horse is calm, relaxed, engaged, eager, understands contact, understands how to lengthen to the bit through the whole body — and this makes all the preparations priceless.

#2 Default aids: no matter if the horse is more mature or is a young horse — at least 75% of the time the rider has to use the default aids that she will be using later on. It is very important to ride the young horse especially with the correct technique and default aids that you will be later using for the whole life with your horse. It doesn’t make the learning process for the horse longer, on the contrary to that it makes it shorter — because the rider doesn’t have to introduce new aids or refined aids every 6 months of training education of thehorse.

The beautify of this approach lays in this simple truth that the good riding technique is a technique that every young horse understands right from the very beginning: it’s natural for the rider as much as it is natural for the horse.

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It is not your fault 💗

This post I consciously fill with compassion is for all of the underdogs, who fight everyday for their horses' lives and cannot possibly understand why even though "all the right actions" are taken things are not working for you and your horse.
This is NOT YOUR FAULT.

Telling to someone "Just change this and that" and your horse will be better is a sign that someone is not working on everyday basis with the chronically and seriously ill horses and horse owners who did everything they could and the best they achieved is to have the illness manageable (the horse is still alive but not healthy at all).

I meet such people and such horses everyday - the underdogs who did all they possibly could and they don't understand why this is not working for them. Who live in sense of deep guilt and blame themselves, because things that worked for others are not working for them.

ENERGY WORK comes with a message for you: IT IS NOT YOUR FAULT. It is not your horse's fault. You are not a bad horse owner.

Sometimes problems exist on too deep energetic structures to be reached by changes done on the external, superficial layer of life. In the same way as you can improve the vibe of your apartment a lot by moving your sofa to a different place, and adding a warm light lamp in the corner of the room - these changes will not heal the fundaments of the building if the problem lies there. You can add all the plants, paint the walls, and let fresh air in, but these changes are too superficial to heal the structure of the fundaments.

Energy Work allows us to check the root cause of the illness and to check on what depth of the energetic structure of your being the issue exists and work on releasing it from there. Sometimes it's just energetic misbalance but the one that exists very deeply - on the fundament of your energetic building - sometimes it is an energetic malformation done purposefully for you and your horse by others, sometimes it's the energetic scar on deeper levels. The reasons are multiple, but the message is one: IT IS NOT YOUR FAULT. YOU DID NOTHING WRONG. YOU ARE A GOOD PERSON, AND A LOVING HORSE OWNER 💗