- You must build rapport & trust first
- I love how much mutual trust is caught in this image
- Trust must be strong
- Trust from birth leads to a stress free first ride
- including Maia stepping up on pedestal
- Jackie trusting Kami
- Maia trusting Anne
- leads to Maia following Anne’s intention & body language
- Nadja, having lost the connection with Prince, waits to re-establish it
- Prince re-establishes his connection with Nadja
- With trust, Prince syncing up with Nadja
- Nadja uses play & body language to create harmony
- Play includes Prince carrying cone to Nadja
- Maverick following Anne into the pond at liberty
- Julia trusting Kami fully
- Kami trusting Julia by receiving a hug
- Julia playing splash in the pond with Kami
- leads to Kami trusting Julia by walking through water obstacle
- trusting Julia at the ocean
- riding in the parade in a halter
- and Julia able to ride Kami without anything on her head
- Using the ball to work on balance
- Learning to “feel” body language
- See how horse and human move as one
- Body language for stop
- Julia asking Kami to go sideways with body language
- Kami and Anne in perfect sync
- Bareback is the best way to acquire balance
- Staying balanced at all gaits
- Even little ones can do this
- So a 3 year old can turn and stop a horse without reins
- Iris riding Mystic with the neck string
- Anne introducing Maia to deep water
- Then teaching Maia to swim in pond
- leads to Maia trusting Anne to walk in the ocean
- and Maia pushing the Flintstone cart
- Trust allows Nadja to ride Tessa in her halter
- and Maia to step up on anything
- Majestic Mystic
- Jackie mirroring Mystic’s focus
- increases his trust in following her feel
- Creates greater harmony
- You become the leader he chooses to follow
- Jackie riding Tori in the arena with the neck string
- creates the trust to ride her in the pasture without head gear
- Trust that takes her into the ocean
- and has her doing a parade with reins on her neck
- Kami doing liberty on the trail with Crystal
- Free to leave, Kami checking in with Chansonette
- testifies as to her trust in us