If you are new to Liberty training, or want to brush up on your fundamentals, start here! Mia shares the principles she follows when working with horses at liberty. Learn what these principles are and why they are so important before moving on to the Purpose Exercises.

THE PRINCIPLES:
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Mia demos the principles in action and how we can use them in phases - mind, flexion, weight, then the feet, just like our horses!

Picture your perfect picture! Learn the theory behind why Thoughts and Intentions is the first Lesson Of Liberty.

Our Energy backs up our Thoughts and Intentions to cause them to happen. Then we use Feel and Timing to clarify our communication.

Horsemanship is really knowing when to be, where to be, how to be and when to quit doing what you're doing. This is the key to feel and timing. When you're able to release on your horse THINKING about what you want, thats when things really start to look like magic.

The third Core Principle in the Lessons Of Liberty is Body Language. Learn the importance of communicating with horses using the same body language they use.

Here's some postural queues for helping you to turn your energy off in your body when you are at rest with our horse. It's so important you have a clear OFF and ON in your energy and body language, so your horse can pick up clearly and what you are asking.

Using the right body language with your horse for Draw and Drive can feel counterintuitive to us humans, and often times we can send mixed signals to our horses.

Understand what our Headlights are and how our body language affects where we direct our energy.

Mia demos with the Liberty Stick how depending on which hand you use it in, you body language can either drive or draw your horse.

When starting in Mirror Me we use it in the outside hand to ask our horse to catch up with us, just how a mare swishes her tail to ask her foal to catch up!