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REGULAR WEEKEND CLINICS
Information & Typical 3-Day Clinic Schedule

Both you and your horse would greatly benefit from the clinic experience. Much of what you'll learn and what you'll be teaching your horse during the weekend centers around safety, communication and developing your leadership position in your relationship with your horse.

Experience Required

You do not need to be an experienced rider or horseperson to participate with your horse in this clinic. Beginners as well as advanced riders have found the skills taught in Ed's clinics to be very useful. His system of working with horses builds confidence in handling horses on the ground and mounted, equips owners with natural communication skills and establishes their authority as a confident, consistent leader for their horse. You will develop a better relationship with your horse- lighter responses, more respect, trust, and harmony. You will understand how your horse perceives the ideas you present to him and how to communicate with him in the way he communicates with other horses. This is all accomplished with respect for the horse by using gentle, natural horsemanship techniques.

Ed's teaching style is very clear and straight-forward, giving students a methodical and systematic approach which is easy for both horse and rider to understand and apply. His gentle methods have been proven effective by successfully working with hundreds of horses and humans. You will learn problem solving principles and teaching techniques that work with the horse's nature and instincts in order to overcome resistances and find solutions with confidence, patience and understanding.

Thirty years of working with horses in the ranching, motion picture and training industries along with Ed's formal training in 17th century classical equitation provide him with a very unique and broad basis of skills and knowledge to pass on to lesson participants. You'll learn gentle horsemanship and classical riding techniques that you've never seen before and that are not taught in any other clinics.

Regular Schedule

Friday night will be a lecture and demonstration on the history of natural horsemanship and why this systematic approach works with great success for horses and humans. We'll also show some good practical techniques for catching, haltering, tying, saddling and bridling.

Saturday you'll be teaching your horse the Six Keys to Harmony, easy to understand techniques for establishing respect and trust with your horse and achieving light responses from your horse on the ground and mounted and begin "despooking" your horse with "scary" items. All this is designed to build his confidence in you as a worthy leader and to help him be calmer, smarter, braver and more polite.

Sunday morning we'll review what we did on Saturday and you'll find that both of you are doing all the exercises much more smoothly and lightly than you did on Saturday.

Sunday afternoon we'll apply the Six Keys mounted to improve riding skills and achieve safety and good control of speed and direction. You'll have an easy to apply skill to absolutely stop him and shut his motor off whenever you need to. He will be at peace under your confident leadership.

Techniques applicable to all disiplines and rider levels

The skills you'll learn and the exercises you'll teach your horse apply to riders of any level with any type of riding discipline, (English or Western, competition or pleasure) and horses of any age. This is good, common sense horsemanship that anyone should be able to do.

Follow up Lessons

Monday and Tuesday following every clinic, Ed will be available for private or group lessons. This is a great opportunity for you to have a private session to follow up on the skills learned during the clinic. Ed will be happy to work with you and your horse on particular problems or the issues that are most important to you.

Group sessions may also be arranged if there is a group of participants who would like a follow up session on Monday or Tuesday to all work on similar topics.

These "after clinic" group and private sessions are open to anyone including clinic participants or spectators who would like to work with their horse or with one of our school horses

Friday Evening   7:00 - 9:30 PM

"Revealing the Mystery of Natural Horsemanship"
A lecture/demonstration on the theory of natural horsemanship.

• Building a relationship with your horse through Care, Communication and Consistency

• Respectful Catching

• Predator/Prey Relationship

• How this type of training relates to the horse's natural instincts by explaining herd dynamics and leadership, especially in the wild horse herd

• Discussion of tack and bits

• The tie knot

• Demonstration with Sunny showing:

- Respectful Catching
- Achieving Proper Head Position for Bridling
- Respectful Haltering
- Respectful Leading
- Saddling and Bridling tips

"Six Keys to Harmony"

Easy to understand techniques for establishing respect and trust with your horse and achieving light responses from your horse on the ground and mounted. These essential exercises help you to establish your leadership position, gain your horse's attention and determine each time how he (or she) is responding to you. The exercises will help your horse be calm, focused and willing, and they will increase his coordination for precise and fluid movements as well as increase his flexibility. By practicing these fundamental exercises with your horse, your speed and direction control will be greatly enhanced. These exercises will prepare both horse and rider mentally, physically and emotionally for a more successful, safe, and enjoyable ride.

Saturday  10:00AM - 6:00PM

You'll enter the arena with your horse on halter and lead rope unsaddled. During the day you'll be teaching your horse the "Six Keys". In the afternoon you'll be introducing your horse to "Developing the Fearless Horse" - Techniques to build Calm and Confidence into your horse

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Gymnastic Benefits of The Six Keys to Harmony Exercises: