Carolyn Resnick Horsemanship: Liberty Horse Training

The purpose of the Insider Circle and Extended Circle online courses is to develop a cross species bond that creates your horses’ interest to follow your lead, learn new behaviors, and have an optimistic attitude when you go to ride your horse. This special bond will remove resistance, bad attitude, and unwanted behaviors like bolting, biting, kicking, shying, and running away.

Learning To Develop Positive Attitudes…Not One, But Five!

Once you have this cross species bond when you ride, it will be an enjoyable experience for you both. Your horse will be willing to follow your lead and have a sense of well being because of the trust and respect he has for you. How you create this magical relationship is by developing five positive attitudes in your horse and in yourself. These attitudes are to have a deep bond, trust, respect, willingness, and attention on each other. The connection you create from these attitudes will give you a perfect dancing partner. Having these attitudes your horse will be able to read your mind and understand your communication that is going to surprise you. These attitudes are created from five simple interactions at liberty you share with your horse daily.… Read more

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I want to introduce to everyone Dr. Alessandra Deerinck a Certified Clinician in my Method. Alessandra began her apprenticeship with me five and a half years ago. When she first came to my ranch to interview for the position of apprentice, I was working with a newly started liberty horse, Polonaise. Alessandra had never seen me work a horse at liberty and she was completely enthralled. I gave her a quick 15 minute lesson, and she stepped into the arena to work in front of a stranger (myself), and a horse she had never seen before that was extremely green to my Method, and worked with her at liberty as if it were second nature to her. Polonaise danced with Alessandra just like the beach scene with the boy in the movie The Black Stallion sending Polonaise around the arena and Companion Walking in both walk and trot as I watched with my jaw dropped!

Alessandra was a natural, and has turned out to have a growing business here in my town, as well as doing clinics in Italy and also operating an online school of my Method in Italian. Because we live so close to each other, I am still schooling her to… Read more

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The way I see it, women approach leadership and horses a lot differently than men do. As children in our imaginary games riding Pegasus, Pegasus reads our minds and takes us to enchanted places. Girls are attracted to Pegasus from their desire to experience a magical connection through a magical ride; while boys grab their broomstick, and ride to a destination that they tell their imaginary horse to go.

My method address horses more like a woman of course because I am wanting a relationship with a horse more than any service I might get from the horse. The service I do receive from the horse is a way to enjoy our connection from a co creative process. It turned out that in competition, my method could hold up to any other method that was not interested in developing a friendship from the training process.

I have seen methods that are driven by a dominant approach through a masculine energy develop friendship with a horse, but the horse had to give up the ability to say “no,” or the power to change the subject, or have any say in the matter of his training at all. The masculine intent… Read more

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To create a deeper connection with your horse, put yourself in a state of happiness before you see your horse. It will help you to discover yet another core strength within you. Your intentions to elevate your awareness will grow your magnetism. Growing your magnetism will draw your horse to follow your lead. It will cause your horse to trust in your leadership.

So how can we do this?
Start by putting your attention on the well being that is always there inside of you until it consumes your awareness fully. Become aware of how your body feels in the moment. Focus on the parts of your body that feel alive and well until your whole body feels alive.

If you have something that does not feel good inside you, this is not you. It is an external condition that has caused feelings of sadness or any negative feeling that pulls you down. Let it go on your exhaled breath. Imagine breathing in healing energy. Imagine breathing from the parts of your body that you are focused on and then feel the sensation. Notice the well being growing within you. Feel the connection to all things and a peace… Read more

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Hello. As you may know, I have a very close and long-standing relationship with Neda De Mayo, who does wonderful work at her American Wild Horse Sanctuary, Return to Freedom, in Lompoc, California.

Neda has been a long time student of mine and has introduced a number of people to my Method during her workshops. As were putting together today’s blog, we came across a very interesting question from the Insider Circle which I wanted to feature. As you will read, this person was indeed introduced to my work via Neda and Mark told me that he was on the same workshop and that’s how he found out about me too! So I’d like to thank Neda and say that if you ever get chance to visit the sanctuary, I really recommend it. They run a variety of different events and workshops there too and of course it’s a wonderful cause to support too.

In fact, large parts of my Waterhole Reflections DVD were shot at the ranch and it really is beautiful up there, especially in the Spring when all the flowers are out, so go take a visit.

OK, so on to the question, which… Read more

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There are segments of time when things work out magically, and there are other times when chaos is present.

Today I was dealing with an upset on the ranch. Two horses had become very agitated with one another from having been switched to one another’s paddock. They worked themselves up so much that I was going to have to put them back in their original paddocks, because of the risks of them running around and getting hurt, as they were looking for a way to get to each other over the top of the fence. They got so wild we could see that we could hardly lead them back to their original homes, because they wanted to fight it out with one another and break away for being lead. Both horses have some unfinished training in regards to getting out of control when being lead in a time that they get angry with another horse. One is a stallion and the other is a tough gelding that exhibits behavior like a Stallion. He was the more difficult of the two.

The natural order of things is harmony, and if you let chaos go through its course, it will on its… Read more

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When I first got Apollo, I decided I wanted to see how a dog breeder would handle him to give him a bath. I wanted to see his behavior toward a bath so I would not make any mistakes and start a behavior in him that I was responsible for, that would develop a bad connection with him. I learned a lot. What I learned is that she talked to him with sweet tones every minute that she was bathing him helping him to feel secure. When he got too whiney and nervous the husband would come into the room and poke a finger into his rib cage and say “Settle down.”

To my surprise, Apollo responded by settling down and the wife would then would go back to sweet talk. The husband’s energy was on the muscle but calm and direct. They had a plan. One of the reasons it worked is that down deep inside them they knew it would. Because of this, it influenced my dog to accept his bath like they expected him to.

I learn by watching, reading, experiencing, practicing and the big one, evaluating. From evaluation, I can usually come up with… Read more

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