Category: Alternative Training Techniques

A person feeding a horse in the dirt.

Positive, clicker training with wild one year old Mustang

Mick is the sweetest most reliable horse now but several years ago we were sorting things out! He would try to bite me (that is why I am carrying a whip) and I was trying to train him to the point we could catch him. I wanted him to learn that touch was safe. If you have an aggressive animal,… Read more →

A woman and man standing next to a horse.

Training from the Heart with Frederick Pignon and Magali Delgado

Last month many of you know I was lucky enough to participate in a five day clinic with the founders of Cavalia, an amazing presentation of how horses and humans can dance, celebrate and perform tricks and acrobatics together. Frederick and Magali toured for seven years with Cavalia and now their focus has turned to their new showwww.eqi-show.com. During my… Read more →

A woman standing next to a black horse.

Holistic Horse Training

I have been feverishly working on building the website: www.freespirithorsetraining.com to combine all types of positive horse training: clicker training, trick training, liberty horse training. As far as I know, it’s the only free step by step on-line how-to on liberty training available with videos. Still working on the management part of the site but the cutest thing is Tino… Read more →

A man is walking with his horse in the grass.

Tino and Liberty Horse Training, Part 1

Here is a video of Tino and me working together using techniques I learned last June on a trip to Liberty Horse Training at Robin Gates’ beautiful Rising Moon Ranch in Sonoma, California, about an hour north of San Francisco. Liberty Horse Training provides a truly revolutionary, entirely positive approach to working with horses. (By the way, can you believe… Read more →