Albi finds connection and safety with humans. Mia and his owner suspect Albi has some past trauma around physical contact with humans, so Mia helps his owner to build connection and trust with Albi at liberty using join up, letting him choose to seek her as a place of safety and comfort.

Positive reinforcement is a great tool to engage your horse in seeking and build connection to a task, particularly if they are a scanner or easily disconnect because of external distractions.

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...

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...

Special guest Serena Kullich came down to visit with her young horse Kalina to learn liberty. Kalina is a very exuberant, athletic and extroverted horse, so in this first episode Mia teaches Serena some exercises to get Kalina more connected on line before going to liberty.

In episode 2, Serena and Kalina take the exercises they've learnt online to liberty. The yard was very busy, with lots of distractions for young horse Kalina, so Mia guides Serena through the exercises she uses to build connection, before they have a play with Hunt The Jump!

Serena is in the process of building a liberty and bridleless pair. Once you've taught your horse mirror me from the saddle, this is how we go about keeping their connection and mind with us and how to teach them to find and seek their place in the pair when they inevitably leave.