Help your horse to enjoy holding still for mounting. We will discuss techniques to minimize fidgeting, sidling and walking away. This technique will help them to be solid for mounting out on the trail, at a show, basically anyplace, anytime.

Teaching your horse to accept wormer and oral medications. In the process we help them to become desensitized to mouth handling.

Preparing your horse for clipping, mounting, vet care, farrier work and your visiting nephews. This is a process that includes systematic desensitization and . That sounds dull but and it is more important than you might realize.

Teaching your horse to be relaxed and happy about foot handling.

Getting the fundamental Positive Reinforcement Training skills strengthened. The clicker skills go much deeper than a physical skill set. We are creating a horse who loves solving the puzzles that come along with training horses.

Teaching your horse to stand. Standing still, calm and relaxed, anytime, any place is one of the most important behaviors in their repertoire. Using the positive reinforcement in a systematic way increases clarity as well as your horse's motivation.

Shawna takes you through stationary targeting, shifting context and some pointers for horses who try to hard or are a little shut down using positive reinforcement.

In this lesson we talk about what a target is as it relates to positive reinforcement training and why it is useful and then introduce it to our horses.

We continue working on manners both on the ground and around food. However, we are going to take it a bit further and add movement. We will be reinforcing relaxation and downward transitions. Therefore we put a greater value on our horses choice to quiet their bodies AND minds. Overtime this skill (choice to settle) can carry over to all sorts of real world situations and become an invaluable tool.

An important element of horse training and equine behavior is communication. As we introduce positive reinforcement(R+) training techniques, we will first focus on teaching the bridge signal (for our purposes we will use a clicker). Through this process we will also practice manners around food and discuss relaxation. In addition I will talk about why R+ is a super effective and fun way to work with your horse.  Listen in...