The Purpose Exercises
9 Seasons
Once you've understood The Principles Of Horsemanship, it's time to start putting them to use through The Purpose Exercises.
You can click through the drop down below to explore these exercises.
These are the exercises that will teach your horse the art of Liberty, by tapping into how horses learn and behave. Typically we teach these in the order listed below, but there are sometimes exceptions to the rule, and many times we are working on multiple at once!
The Purpose Exercises:
1. Trust
2. Steady Pressure
3. Driving Pressure
4. Conscious Relaxation
5. Connection
6. Draw
7. Drive
8. Mirror Me
9. Circles
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DRIVING PRESSURE
Learn how we can communicate better with horses through Driving Pressure.
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DRIVING PRESSURE - HOW HORSES COMMUNICATE
Episode 1
Using driving pressure can feel really unnatural to use humans because we are pully-grabby creatures (that's why we invented headcollars and leadropes) but it's much more natural to our horses than steady pressure. Learn how to use driving pressure to better communicate with your horse.
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UNDERSTANDING DRIVING PRESSURE
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INTRO TO THE 6 YIELDS
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SIX YIELDS (LEFT & RIGHT)
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SIX YIELDS (FORWARDS & BACKWARDS)
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SIX YIELDS (UP & DOWN)
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IN HAND LATERALS
Mia demonstrates the Leg Yield and Half Pass and their uses as disengaging and engaging exercises from a horsemanship perspective.
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LEG YIELD ON A CIRCLE
Teach your horse Leg Yield on a circle. A great suppling exercise that can be used to help your horse relax through the body.
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HOW TO SWITCH SIDES AT LIBERTY
Learn how we use driving pressure to help our horses to switch to other shoulder at liberty, whilst still preserving their connection.
