Leslie Desmond’s blog page

I just added a link to Leslie’s blog, to my Links page. Here’s the description from the site: “In this blog you can follow how Leslie’s approach is helping horses coast-to-coast and gain insight about how to work with horses through “feel...

The Right Way

On the DressageDisgrace.com site there is a discussion about some videos which have been posted as representatives of the ‘right way’ to do dressage. The idea is to identify riders who are not using rollkur as a regular part of their training program and...

Classical Schooling with Kalman de Jurenak

Right now, I don’t know if I’m inspired or just plain envious.  Lovely horses, ridden beautifully.  This was an interesting video because it begins with a rider on a 3 year old horse who had just been ridden a few times.  The horse is calm and relaxed and...

Whole Heart, Whole Horse by Mark Rashid

In Whole Heart, Whole Horse , through stories about his days as a kid working for the “Old Man” as well as people he’s met through years of doing clinics, Marks brings the process of building trust between the horse and rider to life.   As is typical...

New book by Karen Pryor

When I was first introduced to clicker training some 10 years ago one of the books that was a real mind alterer was “Don’t Shoot the Dog” by Karen Pryor. Although the title would suggest that the book is somehow about dog training, it isn’t. It...

Horses don’t hide their emotions

Recently, Dr. Deb Bennett posted this excellent essay on the forum at her Equine Studies Institute site. Here are just a few quotes to entice you to read the whole thing. On the horse’s fear: “Why this is, is that horses, more than most other creatures,...