Eye Contact - an important pillar in developing awareness of your connection with your horse

Our number one tool for establishing quality of connection with your horse is demonstrated in this video!

And it’s as simple as eye contact!

Paying attention to where our horses focus and attention is and being some one to our horse that they look to for guidance helps deescalate and stop our horses spooking, running around like a kite on a string and running over the top of us. Setting expectations with our horses for focus, attention, concentration and relaxation helps to set them up for success when we are ready to put our horse in to a more scary environment or experience.

Making sure both ourselves and our horses have the tools to know how to deal with their fear before we put them in to scary situations is key to confident horses that have trust and faith in their horse trainer, handler or owner.

Eye contact falls under the horses ability (and your own) to broaden your relationship, communicate and connect. It is one of the important pillars in the three components that make successful, harmonious training with your horse and helps set you up to becoming the powerfully connected equestrian, by eliminating the arguments, fear, worry that you are going to hurt one another and the confidence to move forward as a solid team.

Learn more about setting yourself up for success inside the Holistic Horse Handling Program