The photo: Remember Peppi? He’s the horse that prompted the lesson about getting our tools into our horse’s Comfort Zone. He’s blind in one eye now, but still going strong at the end of 2015 and still putting his hand up to work so beautifully with people and still bringing new things to my awareness. In addition to the short video Lesson below, take your new and more perceptive Inner Awareness and do that Lesson about getting tools into your horse’s Comfort Zone again. Because our understanding and our perception tends to come in layers, it will be a very useful thing to do!
The Lesson
If you are going to carry something like a dressage whip or a stick when you are training or riding, to extend the reach of your arm and help bring your horse’s attention to a leg here or a movement there, or to explain something, then it is important that you don’t use it to hurt your horse, even accidentally.
So here is a cool little technique for holding and using a whip that will help you avoid causing any accidental pain to your horse with it.
AND you can check that your horse is not afraid of or wary of the stick and fix that if you have to with the technique that you learned in Peppi’s tool Lesson.
IN FACT… this short, simple little lesson is a great opportunity to check with your deeper Inner Awareness that you have been developing, that your horse is not afraid of the stick or of any other tools that you use, and get them deeper into their Comfort Zone.
If my horse is afraid of a stick I prefer to fix this at liberty, where they can REALLY show us where they are in their Comfort Zone.