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Do you want to advance up the levels without sacrificing your horses’ welfare and your relationship with them? Do you find it confusing trying to reconcile competitive training techniques with methods that prioritize partnership? Get ready for some fresh insights and deep understandings of how to progress with your horse!
This podcast invites an evolution in your training and learning experience. Karen Rohlf will give you specific techniques and exercises, ‘outside the box’ concepts, and perspectives from top professionals. This show will explore how you can create stronger partnerships and healthy biomechanics, and will help you be your best self for your horse and for your life; free from the fear of making mistakes and dogmatic ‘right vs wrong’ thinking.
As an author, internationally popular clinician, and creator of the Dressage Naturally program, Karen has been filling in the missing pieces and catalyzing breakthroughs for amateur and professional horsemen and women around the world. This show will have something for riders of every level and discipline. If you love the podcast and want the theory behind it, check out the DN book in PRINT or AUDIO format.
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EP193: Best of HTIH: Complicating Half Halts
This episode re-introduces a popular episode from the archives about the famous (infamous) half halt. The half halt is an important concept in dressage – AND it’s a term I actually rarely use. I get a lot of questions about it, and anyone who has studied dressage or has taken dressage lessons has been asked to do a half halt. If you’ve ever been confused about what a half halt is or how to do it keep on listening to this original episode on half halts.
EP192: Best of HTIH: Noticing
This episode is a re-introduction of a favorite episode of mine that goes more into our own minds rather than just horse training techniques, but I promise, what is in this episode will be a HUGE help to your horsemanship. It talks about what we notice, how our neurology works against us noticing everything we can notice, and it will give ideas for how to notice more of what we need to notice in order to improve. I love thinking about this kind of stuff, and I hope you enjoy listening to this replay of episode 104: Noticing.
EP191: Dissolving Brace
In this episode I talk about Brace, and more importantly, what we can do about it. As you might guess, the solution is a little about the horse, and about us. It takes 2 to keep a brace going, and it’s our responsibility to dissolve it.
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@DressageNaturally
Tacking up in partnership.
A great way to know how your horse feels about it, and allows them to participate in their experience.
#happyathlete #happyequineathlete #dressagenaturally #happyhorse #ilovemyhorse
Oct 2
🎤 NEW POD 💥 EP276: HORSE BRAIN SCIENCE WITH DR STEVE PETERS
Enjoy this short excerpt
For the FULL episode go to: https://dressagenaturally.net/podcast/
Or search for Horse Training In Harmony Episode 276 wherever you listen.
In this episode I talk with Dr Steve Peters about about our horses` nervous systems and how they function and adapt to the horse’s life experience and training. He is a fountain of information and in this conversation we talk about how we can put this information into practice with our horses. Get ready to take notes on this one!
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#dressagenaturally #karenrohlf #horsetraininginharmony #horsepodcast #horses #myhorseisperfect #ilovemyhorse #horsemanship #happyhealthyhorse #horsebrainscience #drstevepeters
Oct 2
That feeling when your horse has had a year and a half of health issues... and now she is feeling stronger and oh so lovely. 🥰 😍
Someday I will be too old for bareback and bridleless... but today is not the day. 😎
#dressagenaturally #happyathlete #bridleless #bridlelessdressage
Oct 2
Why does some information make you feel inspired, and other information makes you feel icky?
Have you ever met someone who can, with seemingly great authority, spout off facts, data points, and of course, all the things that are `incorrect`...
Yet somehow when you are in their presence you end up feeling dumber and more confused... ?
Yeah, me too.
I never want to be 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 person.
I`m interested in delivering information be applied, put to good use, and will help people feel more curious, empowered, and capable.
That doesn`t mean we don`t need to sometimes face hard facts and admit to ourselves that, in the presence of new information, we need to do things differently...
It just means that we need to beware of people who criticize and find fault only for the purpose of their own ego or making others feel inept.
... Especially if they are selling you something.
Our silly human brains are designed to think uber-critical people are smarter.
Did you know there is a thing called the "Cynical Genius Illusion"?
Across multiple tests, researchers found that roughly 70% of people firmly believe that cynical individuals are smarter and more competent.
Yet: Data showed that highly cynical individuals generally perform worse on cognitive ability and academic competency tasks than less cynical, more trusting people.
As comedian Stephen Colbert said: "Cynicism masquerades as wisdom but it is the furthest thing from it".
Maybe it`s a "bad" marketing strategy for me to constantly tell people how much they can do on their own, and how much they can trust their instincts.
Maybe it`s "bad" strategy for selling courses when at clinics I leave students feeling happy, empowered, and like they don`t need me.
But what is bad for marketing is good for the heart. 🤗
And...
𝗙𝗲𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗲.
I don`t want to toy with your emotions.
I just want to help you know how awesome you are and what you can do.
Sep 30
🎤 NEW POD 💥 EP275: NOTES FROM THE ROAD
Enjoy this short excerpt
For the FULL episode go to: https://dressagenaturally.net/podcast/
Or search for Horse Training In Harmony Episode 275 wherever you listen.
In this episode I share some observations from my last two trips: An event in Italy with multiple presenters where I found common threads, and a clinic in Maine where once again I saw the power of the Finding The Sweet Spot in action.
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#dressagenaturally #karenrohlf #horsetraininginharmony #horsepodcast #horses #myhorseisperfect #ilovemyhorse #horsemanship #happyhealthyhorse #happyathlete #sweetspotofhealthybiomechanics
Sep 25
@DressageNaturally
Tacking up in partnership.
A great way to know how your horse feels about it, and allows them to participate in their experience.
#happyathlete #happyequineathlete #dressagenaturally #happyhorse #ilovemyhorse
Oct 2
🎤 NEW POD 💥 EP276: HORSE BRAIN SCIENCE WITH DR STEVE PETERS
Enjoy this short excerpt
For the FULL episode go to: https://dressagenaturally.net/podcast/
Or search for Horse Training In Harmony Episode 276 wherever you listen.
In this episode I talk with Dr Steve Peters about about our horses` nervous systems and how they function and adapt to the horse’s life experience and training. He is a fountain of information and in this conversation we talk about how we can put this information into practice with our horses. Get ready to take notes on this one!
.
.
#dressagenaturally #karenrohlf #horsetraininginharmony #horsepodcast #horses #myhorseisperfect #ilovemyhorse #horsemanship #happyhealthyhorse #horsebrainscience #drstevepeters
Oct 2
That feeling when your horse has had a year and a half of health issues... and now she is feeling stronger and oh so lovely. 🥰 😍
Someday I will be too old for bareback and bridleless... but today is not the day. 😎
#dressagenaturally #happyathlete #bridleless #bridlelessdressage
Oct 2
Why does some information make you feel inspired, and other information makes you feel icky?
Have you ever met someone who can, with seemingly great authority, spout off facts, data points, and of course, all the things that are `incorrect`...
Yet somehow when you are in their presence you end up feeling dumber and more confused... ?
Yeah, me too.
I never want to be 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 person.
I`m interested in delivering information be applied, put to good use, and will help people feel more curious, empowered, and capable.
That doesn`t mean we don`t need to sometimes face hard facts and admit to ourselves that, in the presence of new information, we need to do things differently...
It just means that we need to beware of people who criticize and find fault only for the purpose of their own ego or making others feel inept.
... Especially if they are selling you something.
Our silly human brains are designed to think uber-critical people are smarter.
Did you know there is a thing called the "Cynical Genius Illusion"?
Across multiple tests, researchers found that roughly 70% of people firmly believe that cynical individuals are smarter and more competent.
Yet: Data showed that highly cynical individuals generally perform worse on cognitive ability and academic competency tasks than less cynical, more trusting people.
As comedian Stephen Colbert said: "Cynicism masquerades as wisdom but it is the furthest thing from it".
Maybe it`s a "bad" marketing strategy for me to constantly tell people how much they can do on their own, and how much they can trust their instincts.
Maybe it`s "bad" strategy for selling courses when at clinics I leave students feeling happy, empowered, and like they don`t need me.
But what is bad for marketing is good for the heart. 🤗
And...
𝗙𝗲𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗲.
I don`t want to toy with your emotions.
I just want to help you know how awesome you are and what you can do.
Sep 30
🎤 NEW POD 💥 EP275: NOTES FROM THE ROAD
Enjoy this short excerpt
For the FULL episode go to: https://dressagenaturally.net/podcast/
Or search for Horse Training In Harmony Episode 275 wherever you listen.
In this episode I share some observations from my last two trips: An event in Italy with multiple presenters where I found common threads, and a clinic in Maine where once again I saw the power of the Finding The Sweet Spot in action.
.
.
#dressagenaturally #karenrohlf #horsetraininginharmony #horsepodcast #horses #myhorseisperfect #ilovemyhorse #horsemanship #happyhealthyhorse #happyathlete #sweetspotofhealthybiomechanics
Sep 25
