Julie currently has these Courses Scheduled (click for details):

Lesson Series and Play Days

• Finding value in ground work for both starting and maintaining confidence in yourself and your horse.
• Understanding the horse’s point of view, behavior, and the inherent psychology behind it.
• Identifying subtle reactive behavior and thresholds and what to do when you encounter either.
• Overcoming fear while keeping your energy confident and positive.
• Achieving timing, refining your body position, with the emphasis on SAFETY, balance, better use of your tools, and “feel”.
• Rewarding the slightest try and or change.
• Learning leads and simple lead changes.
• Learning to move the front end, the hindquarters, side pass and backing up softly.
• Learning Approach and Retreat.
• Learning rhythmic pressure versus steady pressure and when to use them alone and together.
• Learning the difference between making and allowing a horse to do something.
• Learning the beauty and function of lateral and vertical flexion and how these two lead to ultimate collection and control.
• Associating the gains with your horse using non-demand time.
• Realizing that horses are forward motion driven, into pressure, and pattern animals and how to be successful working with those variables.
• Gaining a more independent seat.
• Learning rein management.
• Learning to read your horse when you start, while you are playing, and how to close the session with success.
• Successfully participating in a trail ride using the playground and strategies for safety and confidence for both you and your horse.
• Learning both Round corral and non-round corral techniques.
• Reviewing Saddle fitting with bits and bitting.
• Exploring natural hoof care and nutrition.
• And more…