I just subscribed to the Premium package and all I can say is “WOW!!!!” I wish I had done this earlier - it clears up so much confusion!!! I am going back to basics with Blackie with starting with Groundwork 1-25. Rebuilding everything from scratch and kind off retraining him in connection and understanding. Hê has had 3 previous owners and I just feel we (him and I ) need to start over and take things slower. I just wanted to ask - must I do all the exercises Everyday? Yesterday I just focused on 1-5 and it went really well. How many repetitions do I do of every exercise? And do I start with one today and go on to exercise 11?

✨ So many horse parents and friends love their horses of course they do. You can see it in the way they show up, the way they care, the way they worry, the way they try - it’s real, and it matters. But love on its own doesn’t build skill and that’s not a criticism, it’s just something that I find often gets misunderstood. Because when things aren’t going right, most people don’t lack love they lack the tools and the understanding of how to help their horse in that moment. And that’s where things can start to feel frustrating. This I find is because they care so much but they’re not quite getting the result they hoped for. Skill is what fills that gap. ➡️ Skill is what turns “I hope this works” into “I know what to do here.” It’s what allows them to be consistent, fair, and eventually crystal clear for their horse. And from this confidence starts to grow. Here’s where it gets really powerful and what I witness everyday - when they become more confident, their horse feels it immediately and that is because now, they’re not just loving them, they’re leading them in a way that makes sense. So if you ever feel like you’re doing everything you can because you love your horse - you are. Now it’s just about building the skills including the fun ones, to match it. Because that’s the piece that changes everything. Question: 👉 Where do you feel your skill needs to catch up with your love right now? P.S. For fun a video of Lenny backing through a gate with confidence and understanding of which I share how teach step-by-step in the Premium. 🐴✨🫶

Gravy came uo to me when i got on the blue bin today cause i gave her soem treats when she came next to me but cannot hield her hind towards to mounting block everytime i face asif im going to mount she moves her hind shes very sensitive to body cues realised if i kepe my back to her hind she does not move it away thaughts not climbing on merely trying to find the following 1.how to hield her hind to the mounthing block to line up ? 2.should i used treats or no ? 3.thoughts on when babies should be backet not starting until i have vet confirmation shes ready of course but I am just curious heard light pressure could help also too much pressure too soon causes damage and this is a very contriversial topic and im guessingit depends on the breed for developing stages but idk

✨ Hi all, continuing on from my previous post yesterday in this category... ...let me ask you to think about something! When you practice with your horse, are you only practicing during the exercise and training time or does that practice carry into everything you do together? I mention this because I see this daily where the idea of this post hit me before I got out of bed this morning. Here are a few examples of what I see going on: Horses pulling their humans toward unattended feed buckets. People walking along glued to their phones, dragging the horse behind them… then getting angry when the horse spooks and nearly runs them down. Horses biting or shuffling during girthing, but somehow expected to be relaxed the moment the ride begins. Horses that cannot stand for longer than 10 minutes to simply be groomed yet expected to stand for 40 minutes + for the Farrier. A very good example is space clearance where during a training session, the horse must stay out of the human’s space. But as soon as the session is over, the rules disappear. The horse can crowd. Pull. Shuffle. Fall apart again. Imagine how confusing that is and I will be very honest when I say, it does not work like that. From the horse’s perspective, the rules seem random. One moment space matters, the next moment it doesn’t. Just watch them in a herd environment, the rules are very clear and if they are not, someone (other horse) quickly has something to say about it.🫣 That inconsistency is what often creates resistance, frustration, shut-downs, or horses that simply lose interest. Practice isn’t something we switch on for 10 minutes and then forget, it’s something that lives in the everyday moments of which I call General Skills: Walking to and from the field/paddock/stable. Enetring the grooming area. Standing quietly to be tacked up. Respecting space around other peoples feed buckets. Horses are incredibly generous animals, but unfortunately they’re often left guessing…and sometimes carrying a little too much responsibility for human inconsistency.

✨ Morning all, we’ve spoken quite a bit about guiding the nose, space clearance and encouraging a relaxed neck/posture. These are important pieces, absolutely. But as you begin to chip your way through the Groundwork to Liberty communications, something else starts to unfold… It’s not just about the front end, the real change begins when we start moving the whole body. That’s where we can begin to undo stiffness, built-up tension and also create a language they can understand which matches our General Skills. Naturally, when the body starts to move better, the mind follows because tension melts into understanding and confusion becomes communication. 👉 Another way to explain it is that in the beginning 1 + 1 should be easy for them to calculate by not going in expecting them to answer 2 + 11. Then, and as we grow our skills we can advance the math's equation, advance their mental state and advance the skill set. Things like: • Send them out and around • Hindquarters over and lighten • Forehand over and lighten • Sideways over and lighten • To-and-fro • Turn, face, and wait • Changes of direction • Zig Zag • Utilizing the effects of Drive and Draw These simple exercises start waking up the feet and softening the body and build conversations you can start to have, not just when you practice, but all of the time. The idea is to not just practice when you have practice time - the idea is that your practice becomes your new normal. So if you’ve been focusing mostly on the nose and neck so far, that’s okay, it’s a brilliant starting point. But the magic really begins when the feet start to understand their job too combined with the up and down energy signals. That’s also when, if you understand the process, groundwork can quietly start turning into liberty. 🐴✨🫶