Carolyn Resnick's Horsemanship Blog – Horse Training from the ground up

Hi. By taking the time to learn the Waterhole Rituals and their origins, you will be able to observe horse interactions with a much deeper understanding and insight. What previously seemed like unruly or strange behavior will suddenly start to make perfect sense as you watch the rituals unfolding before your eyes. Of course, this [...]

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Today I would like to share with you a video by one of my students using the Uberstreichen Exercises. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
This video clip I made yesterday.
I put the camera up in a tree and started. Before starting I have been reading on Carolyn’s UE Thursday blog and [...]

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This was a very good question from Elizabeth in Thursday’s classroom and I thought it would be useful to share my answer with you too.
Elizabeth’s question was how the 7 steps of liberty training I taught in my first video Liberty Training are related to the Waterhole Rituals. Well, the short answer is that they [...]

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The purpose of the third UE exercise is to teach your horse to lower is head while he is walking. The third exercise is done in the same manner as the second exercise. You will start each day with the first exercise and then when it feels good you move on to the second exercise. [...]

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This is one of my favorite stories from my own experiences growing up with horses. This is a quick version of a story that will be out in my next book, a how-to book on the Waterhole Rituals.
The story offers a formula in “How to get what you want from a horse”. Let’s say you [...]

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It is often said that “an eye is the window into the soul,” but there is little known about the possibility that horses communicate with each other through eye expression. However, there was some reference to this fact in Robert Vavra’s book, Such Is The Nature of Horses, where he he refers to the rolling [...]

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I gave a lesson during the Self Realization through the Waterhole Rituals course on Body Talk that was very empowering. What I often find my students doing is communicating body language at the horse rather than dancing with the movement. So, I asked everyone to imagine that the horse was as big as a whale [...]

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Hi. Body language is so important. It brings you closer to your horse. Your communication using body language becomes a shared dance at liberty. Body language causes you to talk clearly and openly to your horse. I like to call it Body Talk. When a horse responds to your body language it is the art [...]

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Julia and I worked with Stoli today. First, we kept him company to start our daily work. He is now feeling a bond with both of us and even enjoying our company.
We are working on body releasing techniques to get him to release any bad memories that could get in the way of his [...]

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Hello. Today I’d like to talk to you about body language or more precisely facial expressions.
I was reading in Robert Barber’s book about the fact that horses communicate with each other using eye expressions and I was really surprised with that. I have used body language all of my life and know that horses can [...]

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