June 9-10 2018 -- Copenhagen, Denmark -- Refine Your Feel Immersion
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Are you really an "Alpha" or "boss" style leader at heart, or do prefer the idea of your horse as your co-pilot?
Immersion Weekend - 4 Rider Limit
Delve deeper into those and other topics and get answers - practical, actionable answers - that bring out the higher partnership experience waiting for you in the wings. Take the "lid" off your potential through a shift in strategy relating in part to "Feel, Timing and Balance" - a phrase coined by Bill and Tom Dorrance to sum up their many layers of wisdom.
So what do the words Feel, Timing and Balance actually mean in our horsemanship, how do they serve exactly, how do they fit together and - the real key to it all - how do you apply them in practice to improve what we bring to the horses that cross our path?
What do you actually need to know to put the conditions in place for the next level of partnership (and beyond) to become inevitable? That is the core focus of our 5 day immersion.
With the help of hundreds of horses - every one of them a unique teacher - I have found out more in the last 10 years about their exquisite capacity for a higher level of partnership than I ever dreamed existed in the previous 30 years. I must thank Chase - the horse who first whispered, then suggested, then insisted by 2006 "That's not it Karen... Go Deeper" for making ultimately inevitable this discovery of what I was missing. It changed my horsemanship forever - when you can reliably touch this other place in your horse there's just no going back. And that's my stand - to help you experience that too, your way for your horse and your horsemanship.
Think it's all a bit too "elusive"? Well, I understand first hand why it can seem that way - the good news is, through clinics, private coaching and video coaching, I've developed a framework of principles to apply and structure to follow step-by-step, down to such specific details you cannot miss!
Immersion Weekend: Rider Package
(exact daily focus will depend on participants' experience) :
Examples of Focus Sessions We May Select:
Feet Matter
What's the "actual facts" stream? Get clarity about what your horse needs you to know to dramatically improve your feel and timing, so you can add flow and grace to, well, just about everything. Then get right down to the real business of "particles of feel" and how these play precisely into Feel, Timing and Balance. Start refining your Feel where it counts most (and sshhh... it's also the easiest place to start).
Riding with you Horse's Movement in Flow
There are many schools of thought about "correct" riding. In this session we mine this topic for the good stuff, with a simple focus: your horse's experience of your riding, how to "get out of his way" and yet ride with connection while supporting his Flow. As an extra bonus, blending with your horse's center of gravity happens to double as the best way to stay on, whether in the arena and "off road" :)
Using "Finer Brushes" in the Art of Applied Feel
Uncover what common habits may be eroding your partnership in ways you might not have realized, and what to do about it - add specific Smart Practices to your game plan to clear the road ahead.
Understand the layered value in the seemingly simple Micro Foundation exercises. Simple on the surface, with opportunities to go deeper into the "particles of Feel" to elevate your practice. Focus on the layer or layers that mean most to you in your partnership right now. Build your skill in one or more of these exercises and you will discover how mighty this "Micro" focus is for precision communication rooted in connection first. Watch your horse learn in a markedly different way that sticks -- and underpins everything you do together.
Riding in Flow
Learn how to drop into your horse's flow and shape it as you go. Understand why you have 75% chance of adding brace depending on your timing. Eek! Then relax!! Learn the surprisingly simple secrets to riding the crucial point in locomotion where graceful flow is the most natural thing in the world. When we ride that natural flow point, it's easy to shape without adding or even "working through" brace. It looks effortless and brings notable results with ease. Why? In essence we bypass the majority of brace. If that sounds complicated worry not - we step through this in bite-size stages, that's a promise!
What Could Go Wrong! Conditions for Inevitable Success
It's inevitable that at some point you might possibly get "stuck". Get clear on how to avoid sliding down the "rabbit hole" as you Shift your horsemanship and partnership into this new realm of possibility. We review the threads covered and how to weave them together in new situations so you take home the keys ("Don't forget your keys!" as I often say) to making your ongoing success inevitable. I want you to go home with a clear, straight-forward strategy to manage your progress, be inspired to continue, and transform the feel of Correcting or confronting challenges to revealing what's already there for the asking -- so you can "go do stuff" with your horse with a new level of enJOYment.
Bonus Q & A Session with Karen
Usually 3-4 weeks after the Immersion Course, we will meet up again on-line to share key insights and "wins" in the weeks following the course, and I will answer questions that have come up to help you understand, adjust to stay on track or confirm you are already!
Registration Now Open
Limited to FOUR RIDERS -- First come, First Served
Spectators Welcome (please register below)
A shift in your Feel & Timing to better fit your horse can be enough to unlock your next level of partnership. What's in your Feel defines your partnership. Why? Because Feel is the main thing your horse has to go on - it's how he's "wired". This means Your Feel is the direct line to your horse - when applied with clarity that fits Your Horse. Join us to understand and practice how:
