The difference between pain, fear, frustration & lack of enthusiasm

When we’re watching our horses work we love seeing them move beautifully and we don't want to see them in pain. As we become more educated we see more body language cues that are expressing pain and discomfort around work.

But how do you tell the difference between work evasion, pain (of all the sorts that horses can get!), fear and the frustration and anxiety of learning? 

That's why we have built the Holistic Horse Handling Program. You can't train pain. So how do you know what's behaviour and what's pain? How do you know if you should just push them through it or if it will blow them over threshold and develop a fear based relationship to training? How do you know you're not doing more harm than good? 

Understanding your horse's unique way of communicating its needs plus our expert eye will help you on your journey to developing an engaged, consenting, enthusiastic horse that enjoys learning and asks to be ridden. 

Sound like an impossible unicorn? We help students time and again build the relationship they dream about so that they can reach their goals together as a team instead of at the expense of their horse. You can train your own unicorn. Just join the Holistic Horse Handling Program.