Horse Training Unmounted
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Feeding Older Horses
Crissi shows what we feed our older horses.
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New Horse, Part One, Feet
Mark chats about the first step we took to help our new horse Poco feel better
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Centering and Balancing, Part 2
Criss shows some exercises to help improve your balance as a rider.
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Centering and Balancing, Part 1
Mark and Crissi demonstrate an exercise to help develop a better sense of balance.
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Centering and Balance, Part 3
Mark and Crissi demonstrate an exercise that helps riders access their center.
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Centering and Balance Part 4
Mark and Crissi demonstrate a simple and important exercise to establish how to connect to your own center.
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Some ideas on bridling
Mark and Banjo show us some ways to approach bridling with a horse who may be nervous about it.
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Picking up feet
Mark shows a couple of different ways to ask your horse to pickup their feet.
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Horsemanship and Building Guitars
Mark chats about how working with horses and building a guitar are so similar.
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Hints on buying horses
Mark offers up some things to think about when buying a horse.
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Beginner Horse, Beginner Rider
Mark chats about the things to keep in mind as a beginning horse person when purchasing or rescuing a horse.
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Stacking Worry
Mark chats about how horses stack their worry until they can’t anymore. A spook or bolt that seems out of the blue often starts long before the incident.
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The importance of the pause
Mark uses music to demonstrate how important it is to pause in horsemanship.
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Learning Hooks
Mark chats about how adult riders learn.
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Doing things with your horse
Mark and Banjo demonstrate how to engage a horse’s curiosity.
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What we learned about the horse’s brain
Mark talks about the importance of understanding some key concepts about how the horse’s brain works.
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Horses Falling in on the Shoulder
Mark chats about the biomechanics behind a rider feeling as though a horse is Falling in on the shoulder, and some easy fixes.
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How to haul a single horse
Mark chats about the reasons most of us were taught to load a horse in the left stall when we haul them by themselves, and why that isn’t any longer relevant.
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Separating Horses
Mark chats about how we helped one of our horses feel more confident by himself.
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Backward rolls
Mark demonstrates how to start teaching yourself backward rolls.
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Forward Rolls
Mark demonstrates how to begin forward rolls. This was filmed during our 10 day intensive, August 2018.
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Being A Centered Rider
Mark chats about the importance of being centered as a rider.
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Taking the Time it Takes
Mark chats about giving our horses the time they need.
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Release and Relief
Mark talks about the importance of offering the horse relief in addition to a release.
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Chatting about rote behavior in horses
Mark talks about developing an understanding as opposed to looking for automatic (rote) behaviors.
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Managing Your Energy
Mark gives a demonstration about a way to think of managing your energy in relationship to your horse’s energy.
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Softness Exercises
Mark demonstrates some unmounted exercises to help develop more softness between you and your horse.
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Wrist Stretches
Mark and Crissi demonstrate effective wrist stretches to open and relax your wrists.
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Shoulder Stretches for Riders
Mark and Crissi demonstrate some helpful stretches to release shoulder tension.
Mark Rashid Horse Training, Inc.
P.O. Box 3241
Estes Park, CO 80517
P.O. Box 3241
Estes Park, CO 80517
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