LIBERTY IN ACTION
Liberty in Action brings the principles of Liberty to life through real training situations, demonstrations and full-length sessions.
Rather than focusing on a particular exercise or being aimed at a particular skill level, these lessons explore the bigger picture of training with your horse. From “what would you do?” scenarios and problem solving to complete sessions where you can see the training unfold from start to finish.
You’ll also get to see Mia training her own horses and horses she has in for training, giving you an insight into how she approaches each session and the decisions she makes along the way. No two sessions look the same as the training can vary greatly depending on the horse and what they need that day and how they respond.
Seeing Mia make those decisions in real time helps you develop your own eye, understanding and ability to adapt the training to you and your horse.
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WHAT TO DO IF YOUR HORSE DITCHES YOU AT LIBERTY
Inevitably our horses will leave us at some point at liberty, but what do we do when our horse gets into a pattern of ditching us? Mia helps her working student Tiah and her horse Google work through this. Google is an excellent jumping horse and in his first few sessions at liberty jumped straig...
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WORKING WITH A YOUNG HORSE AT LIBERTY
Learn how to help your horse let down and follow your leadership by combining liberty and conscious relaxation techniques. In this episode, Zeus has his first session at liberty, so Mia can assess his connection and tension patterns. Mia delves into the relationship between mental/emotional/physi...
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ASSESSING A YOUNG HORSE AT LIBERTY
We like to build lots of connection at liberty when starting young horses. Working your horse at liberty kills a few birds with one stone - your horse can find rhythm and relaxation in motion, you can check out their connection and accustom them to the wide space of the arena, all in one session....
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FINDING CONNECTION AND RELAXATION WITH A YOUNG HORSE
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.
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WARMING UP AN INTROVERTED HORSE
Learn how to match the energy of an introverted horse and warm them up in mirror me before starting more challenging work.
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WORKING ON DISCONNECT WITH AN EXTROVERTED HORSE
Mia's student Jo bought Pudding to the clinic at Abbey Farm to work through some of the disconnect they'd been having whilst lungeing and at liberty. Mia guides Jo through some techniques to use at liberty that work well for Puddings more extroverted personality and create more draw and connectio...
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HOW WE WORK THE TEAM OF 8 PT. 1
Mia and Callum show you how they train the liberty show team of eight that they put together this year, utilising the power of the herd.
