Listen to Chelsea talk about how horses, as prey animals, think, learn and how that affects their reactions. They want to do as little as possible, move quickly and be safe. Their instinct and their nature is to move towards a place where they can be relaxed. They live in the moment, which is typically different than how people live.
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The Purpose of Groundwork | Chelsea C...
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The Concept of Pressure and Release |...
Chelsea explains how to use pressure and release with horses. Horses learn by the amount of the pressure that is put on them and when the release occurs. It not the pressure that teaches them. It the moment we remove the pressure that teaches them about the thing that we wanted to actually have h...
