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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12:26Episode 2USING DRIVE TO CREATE DRAW
Episode 2
Here's how to use drive to create draw. When your horse loses connection with you, you can use drive to help get conscious relaxation in motion, get the connection back, and create draw.
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STARTING CLOSE RANGE CIRCLES
Learn how to start developing Close Range Circles from Mirror Me. Mia begins by demonstrating how to ask a dominant horse to yield before you start balancing drive and draw and then builds on this by using drive to build draw.
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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.
