Learn why it's so important to help our horses understand Steady Pressure. Horse's are born with innate opposition reflex to help them fight steady pressure - which in the wild is a very predatory thing! In our human world however, we must teach our horses about steady pressure not only because s...

Learn how to build your young horse's confidence in you and the tools we use to communicate with them.

Solve your mounting block issues by teaching your horse how to park up using a hindquarter yield.

Here are some exercises you can do when you take your horse into a new environment. Mia demonstrates with anxious young horse Reuben how you can build your horse's connection, focus and awareness.

In Zeus's first session, Mia works him on the lunge to start building a dialogue with him. Mia shares some helpful tips if you have an extroverted young horse who needs to move their feet to think.

Bertie is in for starting at The Heart Of Horsemanship. Mia has been working with Bertie's owner for the past year, so he already has a good understanding of basic groundwork. Watch as Mia helps Bertie find relaxation and connection and helps him to work through his emotions and reactive behaviours.

Learning how to follow a feel is essential for young horses as we prepare them for riding. Watch how we teach this on the ground first.

The crash mat can be a great obstacle for your horse to be introduced to early on in your preparation to ride to start building their confidence going over different terrain and surfaces. Here's how we introduce it for the first time.

Sideways down the fence is an invaluable exercise for you and your horse. Not only can you use it to show your horse the boundary in a new space, but it's a great exercise for suppling the horse in motion through the ribs.

Yielding the shoulders and hind end in motion is a valuable exercise for young or more dominant horses that may come into our space on a circle. It can also help when we progress to liberty work for controlling the size and shape of our circles.