Is your horse hard mouthed, pulls, hard to stop, just does not accept the bit? Would you like to have a soft connection and better communication with your horse?
LOOKING FOR LIGHTNESS?
Lightness Training Series
(March 24, April 7, April 21)
Three one day workshops toward lightness will be offered every two weeks. Learn a skill in one day and practice at home for the next two weeks, then the next step to lightness will be impemented when you return for the second and third workshop. Each workshop will begin with an informational introduction to the training methods along with coffee and snacks. Then participants will have a morning session to implement the techniques with their horses. Lunch will then be served. Last will be an afternoon session with your horse followed by discussion and a beverage.
March 24th Workshop will be an introduction to stationary and mounted flexions developed by the French riding master of the 17th Cemtury, Francois Baucher.
April 7th Workshop will introduce lunging and work-in-hand, a centuries old method.
April 21st Workshop will introduce the four track shoulder-in.
March 24th Workshop will be an introduction to stationary and mounted flexions developed by the French riding master of the 17th Cemtury, Francois Baucher.
April 7th Workshop will introduce lunging and work-in-hand, a centuries old method.
April 21st Workshop will introduce the four track shoulder-in.
Each one day workshop will also include a stall for your horse. The cost of a one day workshop will be $160, Get a 10% discount if you sign up for all three workshops and pay in advance at the cost of $432. The workshops are limited to 8 participants. To reserve a space call 540 459-8591.
The Shoulder-In
‘This exercise has so many benefits that I regard it as the alpha and omega of all exercises for the horse which are intended to develop complete suppleness and perfect agility in all its parts. This is so true that a horse trained according to this principle and spoiled afterwards either in the school or by some ignorant person can be restored to full agility if a horseman puts it for a few days back into this exercise.”
Francois Robichon de la Gueriniere from School Of Horsemanship
Flexions
“The suppling, which will have no other object in the case of a well-made horse than that of preparing his forces to yield to our impulsions, will re-establish calm and confidence in a horse that has been badly handled, and in a defective formation will make those contractions disappear, which are the causes of resistances, and the only obstacles to a perfect equilibrium.”
Francois Baucher from Francois Baucher, The Man And His Method
Lightness
“As for myself lightness is characterized by the simultaneous achievement of the following conditions: activity of the hind legs, and suppleness of the horse’s back both of which permit him to have, from the start of his training, a certain degree of collection, without making him give in (ramener) by the direct intervention of the rider’s hands.”
Nuno Olivera from Reflections On Equestrian Art
The Shoulder-In
‘This exercise has so many benefits that I regard it as the alpha and omega of all exercises for the horse which are intended to develop complete suppleness and perfect agility in all its parts. This is so true that a horse trained according to this principle and spoiled afterwards either in the school or by some ignorant person can be restored to full agility if a horseman puts it for a few days back into this exercise.”
Francois Robichon de la Gueriniere from School Of Horsemanship
Flexions
“The suppling, which will have no other object in the case of a well-made horse than that of preparing his forces to yield to our impulsions, will re-establish calm and confidence in a horse that has been badly handled, and in a defective formation will make those contractions disappear, which are the causes of resistances, and the only obstacles to a perfect equilibrium.”
Francois Baucher from Francois Baucher, The Man And His Method
Lightness
“As for myself lightness is characterized by the simultaneous achievement of the following conditions: activity of the hind legs, and suppleness of the horse’s back both of which permit him to have, from the start of his training, a certain degree of collection, without making him give in (ramener) by the direct intervention of the rider’s hands.”
Nuno Olivera from Reflections On Equestrian Art