In this video, Karen demonstrates a favorite go-to exercise that creates mental, emotional, and physical openness and relaxation. It is based on a foundational yield but shows how to use it for the purpose of creating relaxation and suppleness. She also shows how it can be refined and done at the...

Karen shares her protocol for dealing with fear. Everyone feels fear at some point, and especially with horses, we need to be able to deal with it in a healthy productive way. This video is a practical guide that will show you the exact steps to take to help you acknowledge and move through a fea...

In this video, you will see Karen start a ride on Natilla. She will narrate what she is thinking as she transforms Natilla’s body from ‘just trotting around’ to stretching in a let-loose posture, aligned and free on a circle. Karen shows how even a subtle use of the Basic Alignment exercise can h...

This is a moment from a clinic I co-taught with dressage trainer, Sarah Martin. Sarah started the clinic by explaining the importance of allowing the horse to relax in a natural way, and how that effects the posture in a way that will benefit us in our dressage practice. We'll also start a discus...

Your Guest Presenter is Sylvia Vitazkova Ph.D, CYT. You can learn more about her at Inbodiedliving.org. This video shows Sylvia leading a session to a group of students at one of Karen’s clinics in The Temenos. This video is edited so you can follow along and participate in the experience.

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Taking your horse off the property (especially for a competition or clinic) can sometimes be more ‘exciting’ than you want it to be. In this video, Karen gives some advice for how to set yourself up for success. Many people want a ‘magic exercise’ to ask the horse to do when he is distracted, ina...

Ewa Angantyr demonstrates how she promotes relaxation with her young, high-headed Arabian, Amiir. Ewa focuses rewards when he lowers his head to help him be more calm, trusting, and balanced. In this way he learns how to make himself calmer. She shows how she finds relaxation in motion, and how s...

Karen pulls out some of the techniques mentioned in other videos so she can discuss them further. She will talk about Moving Massage, Reflex To Relax, Permission, First Thoughts, and the importance of giving your horse a sense of Freedom and Choice during your training sessions.

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You will meet Grand Prix jumper Abbey Slaven and her horse, Vougeot. Behavioral issues cause Abbey to start playing with Dressage Naturally Horsemanship techniques, studying with Virtual Arena coach Shawna Lewis, and doing the Habits For Excellent Horsemanship course. They made amazing progress! ...

Karen demonstrates a way to create a strong draw using the conversation about Relaxation! Karen has found this to be a great way to create an enthusiastic draw without putting any pressure on the horse. It also will help the horse who is easily startled to change his reaction/response to commotion.

Karen rides her horse, Hot Shot, to demonstrate stretching at the canter. She explains when it is a good or not good idea to do it, how to play with it in small degrees, and how to use it as a tool for getting more power and volume in the canter. This video is great for anyone playing with improv...

Karen plays with a horse who is nervous about a brush the owner uses to clean cobwebs in her barn. The horse has no previous natural horsemanship training, so it is a great opportunity to see how Karen begins to help the horse have a reflex to relax when he becomes nervous about something. This i...

Karen sits down with a friend and world renowned horseman and clinician, Jonathan Field. She asks him to talk about the most common foundational missing pieces he sees with students or horses that come to him for help. He shares some great insights and gives you lots of great tips. It shows again...

Karen coaches a rider with a very athletic, energetic horse. Karen shows her how to use a simple exercise that will challenge the horse enough to cause her to change her balance, and end up at a slower tempo with more cadence, without saying 'No' to the energy. By doing this exercise the rider is...

It's the little things that matter! For some horses and humans, washing the face can be a difficult thing to do. Karen will give you a couple tips that can make it something you both can enjoy (and you don't have to have water running down your arm ever again). Every moment is a moment to build p...

Getting good results comes from knowing what questions to ask yourself. This video is meant to give you 3 questions to ask yourself when you are riding a high energy or impulsive horse. Think of these questions as a sort of mantra to use. They will be easy to remember and use when you ride. If yo...

Special Guest Karen Partisch (http://karenpartisch.com) is a body-worker who says her main goal is 'calming nervous systems'. She is trained in craniosacral and myofascial techniques and works with humans and horses. She regularly treats Karen and her herd. She is a master of feeling energy and g...

Karen not only gives you 3 questions that will help you stay focused and relaxed while riding a young or green horse, but will walk you through the process of arriving at those particular questions for that rider. By showing you the logic, you can come up with the 3 questions that are best for YO...

Karen plays on line with the same horse as in this month's Sweet Spot With A Tense, Crooked Horse video. This video is non-dramatic in some ways, but his body type makes it so easy to see the difference in how the muscles of the neck work in different postures, so we thought it would be interesti...

Karen rides her horse, Natilla, to show you a favorite training strategy to build both responsiveness and calmness! It’s also a great exercise to do when it is too hot to do a lot of aerobic work. You will see how she plays with it to build greater and greater movement from Natilla, but you will ...

I am joined by special guest Dr Michele Gunderson. Michele is an Iyengar yoga teacher and former university professor. She is an expert advisor to writers and entrepreneurs. Karen was intrigued by her knowledge and in this video asked Michele to share her knowledge of the yoga pose Savasana (that...

Karen addresses a horse during the first session of a clinic. The student has no previous natural horsemanship experience, so it was a great opportunity to discuss how to use boundaries as a way to become the leader, and cause the horse to be more relaxed.

Karen teaches a student, Ann, with her lovely 7 yr old PRE gelding, Uno. He is friendly, light and sensitive, but gets crooked, tight, and stuck in his body. When he does, the energy can come out in very explosive ways. Watch how Karen and Ann calmly create a plan to help him find the open doors ...