Hello and welcome to episode Twelve of The Equine System podcast. The Equine system is all about training horses and being the best leader that you can be for your horse.

This episode focuses on our inside leg and our inside rein as well as building on our energy connection from last session.

I call these exercises PYRAMID exercises because they build up one cue at a time before retuning back down the cues the horse already knows. I find this is a great way to build a horse's confidence when learning to find answers to our questions.

However! - A pattern is only useful short term, once a horse builds his confidence it is important that we test our cues out of sequence... it is important our horse learns the "cue" not just the pattern. This early in season 2, I am very happy for you and your horses to gain confidence and stick to the PYRAMID pattern. :)

There are a couple of things that you need to know before we start. We want to be the leader of our horse, not because we want to be the boss or because our ego is inflated when we're in charge. I like to be the leader of my horse, because I like to make decisions that keep us both safe and.... if I can be the leader of my horse, we can achieve impossible things together.

Each session of season two will start with a safe horse, a motivator and yourself, in a safe environment. Horses are unpredictable animals; it is important that if you are learning these exercises, you do so on an educated safe horse which is appropriate for your ability and skill level.

Today I'm in an arena, I've got some walls. It doesn't matter if you haven't got a fancy arena, but if you're working up against barbed wire or your horse is afraid of the tools that you're using, probably you should have a look at the equine system on YouTube and see how we got a wild Brumby stallion to the level that we're going to be working with today.

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