Secrets For Better Communication With Your Horse

If you want to communicate with your horse, here’s the secret: slow down and pay attention to what your body is saying about your feelings. If you’re angry, upset, frustrated, or off balance regardless of how you pretend to be feeling your horse is going to know. Simply put, you can’t lie to a horse. Horses don’t care what we say because they are only reading our body language. When you’re riding, or even sitting on a horse for that matter, all the horse wants is for you to be authentic, surrender, and find your balance something that, for many of us, is not an easy task.

If you’ve had a hard time keeping steady with your horse lately, you’re gonna like this one.


you will learn:

·         How achieving the goals with your horse is like being a loose horse in the arena- fresh out of the stall

·         What you did to get your productive mojo back after numerous “stops” along the way

·         How to come to terms with your own seasons of life (without losing progress with your horse)

·         That your horses always look the happiest when they are able to be free and buck as they please

Physical communication is the primary way that humans communicate with horses. Whether by pulling on bridle reins or squeezing their legs against a horse's sides, humans have built the entire equestrian sport around physical communication by humans.

What many people don’t realize is that horses are a reflection of our own emotional state. When our lives are out of balance, or when we’re holding on to rigidity, we’re communicating our emotional discomfort to our horse, who is more than happy to reflect our neurosis and emotional issues back to us with an array of unacceptable behavior.

Here at Apple Creek Farm Beaky Peckham spends an enormous amount of time going through every imaginable thing with a horse to make sure he or she is the absolute best that horse can be.