How to lunge your
horse. So you can have amazing,
fun fulfilling rides.
Students we work with are
looking to build a forever bond
with their horse, they want to
be safe, they want to do the
right thing with their horse.
They don't want to make
mistakes. I'm gonna give you
first of all here the definition
of what lungeing is, and then
I'll give you my definition of
what lungeing is. So generally,
if you're new to horses lunging
is where you have your horse on
a line circling around you, or
whatever you're doing, but
that's what lungeing is, on the
general terms of it. What I
wanted to do is talk here about
the core basics of lungeing, and
give you my definition of
lungeing. And my definition, has
the complete consideration of
the rider and the horse. So my
definition of lungeing is where
the horse is on the end of a
line of some sort. And that line
can be invisible, and it's
attached to the horse in some
way. And that can be an
invisible attachment. And you're
making all kinds of figures
depending on the level of
education of the rider and the
horse. And this improves our
connection with each other and
it leads into riding more
advanced work with your horse.
That's my definition of lungeing.
As I mentioned, I'm going to
talk about the core basics of
lungeing here. Number one, one
area of lungeing is liberty. I
absolutely love Liberty work.
Basically, it's when you don't
have a physical line attached.
That's that invisible line
that's attached. Right. Riders
love the handlers, the people love
it. The horses love it too. If
it's done well. And you can
reach very high levels with
Liberty work that translate into
your riding, you're in hand
work everything you do with your
horse and example I was asked to
do an audition. It was for an
outdoor play that happens every
summer. I got a phone call and
the woman said to me, we need a
horse for our next summer play.
It needs to be a white horse. It
needs to be a horse who can do
all kinds of different things
and be very impressive. And we
heard that you have that well. I
have actually two horses that
could fit that one. One was an
Andalusian gelding and the other
one was a more arab mare. So she
said your audition is on this
day, bring your horse and show
us what you can do. So I
actually chose the more arab mare
Her name was Gem went to the
audition, everything we did at
Liberty and at the audition, it
was not in a fenced area. It was
completely open. It was at their
farm and they had the
bleachers set up it was actually
behind the bleachers, but it was
completely open to the whole
entire 80 acre farm. My horse
could have gone anywhere. So I
did the audition. And what we
did with Gem was we did the
rear we did circling at Liberty
we did all three gaits we did
sideways we did coming toward us
at Liberty we did lying down so
we did all these things. That's
an example of how you can get
very advanced with your horse. I
have to say that we were
accepted for the play it was
called the blue horse and Gem
was the star in the play. She
was painted all in blue with
with kids tempera paint before
each show. It was a show that
ran for 30 days, 30 nights,
sometimes two shows a day. And
she performed amazingly well. We
had to train I trained the actor
who actually was the lead actor
in the play, how to work with
Gem so that all our training
that we had put into Gem
translated directly to another
person. It was just an amazing,
amazing experience. So this is
where Liberty can take you to
very very high heights as it did
with my horse gym because she
was doing so many shows like
that's when it really shows if
your work with your horse is
good. The other aspect of that
though, is that we continually
trained her body to move
effectively so she wouldn't get
to graded physically that is
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live. Alright, so the next one I
want to chat with you about and
that is lungeing online and
probably every course person has
done lungeing online has
so many different purposes. I've
already mentioned some in when I
talks about the Liberty. So
basic things are basic education
for starting young horses. For
more advanced horses, you can
use it for balance, rhythm
coordination, improving the
gaits working on transitions,
you can use it for
communication, using voice
commands, perhaps body language,
of course, energy. This is an
interesting one. And some people
use lungeing just to blow off
energy for a horse. All my
horses are actually out and
they're not stalled. So they
don't have that issue or they
have tons of energy, but they
have issues sometimes where
they're spooky or that it's
windy, the weather's not very
good. So online lungeing is very
good for that. It helps them to
calm down and to settle down.
It's a place where you can check
how your horse is moving, you
can check how your horse is
feeling, you can check how you
are feeling. Alright, so there's
so many benefits to lungeing. So
now in my program, this is how
we use lungeing. We use lungeing
to reinforce our place of power.
us as riders as athletes riding
on our horses, or using in hand
work. We need to have our place
of power. And that is always not
clear to riders. Sometimes
riders think it is they think
they know what it is. But
they're not absolutely crystal
clear. And this is what I do in
my program. I help you to find
out exactly crystal clear. What
is it that you need to do to
find your power position? What
do you need to release? What do
you need to coordinate, then we
use lunging, to talk to her
horses to have a conversation.
So this is what I like to think
about it as is the place to
start the conversation with your
horse. Just like movement and
just like riding, it's the place
to start. So unless we have
attention to actually listening
to our horse actually speaking
to our horse, actually giving
back to our horse once we've
listened then lungeing is going
to turn into something that's
boring, because horses are
intelligent. And when they know
they're being listened to, then
they start to engage and and
cooperate and actually have
a conversation back with you.
And that's where it gets
interesting for horses. That's
where lungeing is not at all
boring. I mean, you can make
lungeing extremely boring for
horses and shut them off. And
it's our enemy to have horses
that are bored. We're not just
telling the horse commands,
we're not just blurting out
things for the horse to do and
expecting immediate of
obedience. The next thing that
we do in our program with and
how we use lunging is feel
riding is all about movement
and movement is all about feel
and sitting in the saddle is
all about feel. contact with the
reins is all about feel. So this
is the place that we first
introduced how to feel how to
feel your horse on the end of
the line, which then translates
and how to feel your horse while
you're riding example, Deb who's
in our program, she experienced
the first one or two weeks in
our program, she then got on and
rode her horse. And she
later sent me a video on one of
our group calls. And she was
absolutely speechless. She
couldn't believe how she was
then able to feel from just
doing what are exercises that we
do with the ride the rebound,
her horse was able to feel it so
clearly. So she was able to just
do what we teach. And the horse
responded instantly. No make
involved in there. This is also
where we teach about riders
emotions, subconscious blocks
that are holding them back. When
you're on the lunge line, you
can focus more on these things.
What is coming to me, my horse
is being confusing, I don't
understand. So maybe I say to
myself, I can't do this. I'm no
good. Why am I doing this, a
subconscious block rather than
saying, I am good enough. And I
can help my horse through this.
I just need to find the right
way. This is what we work on all
these voices that come into us
when we're working our horse,
which actually holds us back it
stops us from from knowing what
to do. It stops us from actually
being there. And being in an
evaluative and observing mind so
that we can figure it out. Also
we use the least amount of
intervention as possible and
this relates to back to the
field as well. Is there leading
happening is they're not
leaning, do we want leaning do
we not want leaning do what is
contact all those kinds of
questions, other things that we
really like to do within our program
with relating to lungeing is
letting the horses explore.
Alright. And so this relates to
Liberty as well. Let the horses
figure out, let them explore. So
they're not becoming robots.
This is a partnership and a
union in harmony is not about
one part of the partnership
being a robot. It's about us
both coming together, dancing
together, understanding each
other having a communication
having a talk with each other
fun exhilaration, results,
comfort, ease and flow. Also,
online can be a segue to trailer
loading. Because the better you
have your online, the better
than you can handle your horse
in a more challenging situation
like trailer loading. I've given
you so many purposes, so many
benefits. I've given you
examples and showing you how
lungeing with Liberty online can
help in so many different ways.
Now, you need to answer that
question, what is it that I'm
trying to accomplish with my
horse and give yourself and your
horse, the expansiveness that
you need to do a good job with
your horse, if you want to
expand your process with your
horse and expand your
possibilities around Liberty
around lungeing around mindset
around going to the highest
levels of lateral movements, for
example, then that's what we do
in my program. And if you are
here, and you're just thinking
perhaps, okay, if I get in your
program, just tell me what to
do. Just tell me what to do.
Tell me what works with my
horse. That's not how it works.
What we're going to start with
in my program is why are you not
working with your horse to your
full potential, what is holding
you back. And remember earlier I
talked about that voice in our
mind that keeps coming up
probably all of us in the middle
of what we're doing with our
horse that my voice comes in.
That's what we work on. And
that's what we show you and we
have a process for this is what
are your blocks, what's stopping
you from progressing with your
horse, and in the program,
someone is there for you.
Because sometimes these these
blocks can be very deep, and you
don't even know you're there.
They're there. But they're very
ingrained and very clear to your
horse, the mental aspect, the
emotional aspect and the
physical aspect, as we talked
about. Riding is all about
movement. And if you do not
understand your movement, then
you won't be clear to your
horse. And when we work on your
body and with your movement, we
help you to really connect with
what is your good pure movement.
So then when you go liberty or
you go online or you're riding
you can have amazing fun and
fulfilled rides. And your horse
will live this with you. And
that's when you get to unity. So
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struggles that you are in with
your horse that is really
holding you back from having fun
and wonderful rides. Okay,
thanks so much for being here.
It's great to have you have a
great weekend and I will see you
next week. Okay, bye for now.