Articles · 5 min read
Leadership with horses
by Cynthia Cooper Natural Horsemanship has increased our awareness of relationships with horses – the terms partnership, respect, leader, alpha etc. have…
Horsemanship
Natural horsemanship: groundwork, liberty, training ideas and learning to think like a horse.
Horsemanship · 4 min read
More Interesting Challenges
As your horsemanship skills improve, it will benefit you and your horse to find ways of putting things into practice by playing…
Horsemanship · 4 min read
Tasks featured at the Agfest Challenge Tournament
The idea of this event is to have fun and complete as many of the challenges as you can in the allotted…
Horsemanship · 1 min read
Finding Challenges around Your Farm
Many properties will have natural obstacles that can develop your ground skills, and turn tasks into fun. Just be sure to asses them…
Horse Care · 5 min read
Ask Cynthia – ‘Hoof Handling Problem’
I wonder if you can help me. I have been practicing natural horsemanship for over 5 years and am learning every day.…
Horsemanship · 8 min read
Starting Young Horses Under Saddle
How to give your young horse the best start to riding. by Cynthia Cooper ‘Starting’ a young horse is a more positive than…
Horsemanship · 7 min read
Giving Horses Choices – The beautiful Boronia
Yesterday at my Young Horse Day workshop I met a wonderful soul in Boronia, a young shire mare. I was asked to…
Horsemanship · 5 min read
Treats for Horses – Why Use Them?
by Cynthia Cooper To horses, a treat is not a bribe unless you use it as one. I see it as a…
Articles · 7 min read
Comfort Zones – what are they?
by Cynthia Cooper Comfort zones are a survival mechanism for horses. If they aren’t familiar with something they become wary, putting them…
Articles · 5 min read
Educating My Horses
by Cynthia Cooper Over the many years of being a student of the horse, pony club, Parelli, horse psychology, clicker training and…
Horsemanship · 3 min read
Lili convinces Zarb that floating is fun.
Lili convinces Zarb that floating is fun. Hi my name is Lili Foster and this is a story about floating Zarb ,my…
Articles · 8 min read
There’s more to Trailer Training than just Loading.
For many people, just getting their horse on the trailer is a struggle and when you finally do, it feels like the…
