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Clinic Clips: Riding Through Feel

What does it mean to "ride through feel"? Jim talks a bit about what riding through feel means and we can ask our horses to do something quieter while riding in this clip. This is also a good clip to learn more about our "Working Through Feel" Cow Clinic. Watch below to learn more.

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The APEX of the Horse – Part 2

What does the hierarchy of anxiety look like for the horse? What's the optimal state of cognitive arousal to work with your horse? What happens if you reach the apex? Thanks to the authors of Evidence-Based Horsemanship for this information! *I apologize for the quality of the video. This was during a live stream at a training.*

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The APEX of the Horse -Part 1

What does the hierarchy of anxiety look like for the horse? What's the optimal state of cognitive arousal to work with your horse? What happens if you reach the apex? Thanks to the authors of Evidence-Based Horsemanship for this information!

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Clinic Clips: Give Horses Opportunity to Investigate

We have to give horses the opportunity to investigate. Does your horse use their hands (yes, I said hands!) and learn? Or do they close their eyes and hold their breath? Jim takes three minutes to discuss the difference in teaching the horse how to learn new things and forcing the horse to do things. Watch now to learn more.

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Bar T Horsemanship: Safe Space, Part 3

In this third, and final installment, of our three-part Safe Space training with Jim Thomas and Dr. Steve Peters you will get to see the work being done with Mason to help him feel safe. This is paramount to being able to move to any of the next steps in Mason's training. Though this is a longer video, it has a lot of good action and all three of these videos have been segmented from about an hour of Q&A and 30 minutes of round pen work with Mason. That is important to know because as we say at The

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