Three C:s to check before riding.    -Connection  -Confidence  -Cues (aids)   This is a modified version of a horsemanship structure I learned when first starting pony clubbing. The meaning is to assess your horse (and yourself) to keep you and your horse under threshold and communicating well.    Back then the focus was more on an obedient horse, in my teaching I focus more on a horse that sees the environment as a resource and is fine communicating any uncertainty about it back to the rider. Whether the rider sits on the horse or work from the ground.  ..read more

To work with the horse while the horse is standing still, in a halt or just parking, is something I am very passionate about.  When we talk about working in halt many think about the "full" school halt. However that is a tool being closer to the end of all the work we can do in halt. And the goal is not the school halt itself but what it the journey towards it can bring to our horse and training. Even if we don't get there! To improve the whole horse in both standing and movement, to gymnastize and to educate, clarify or improve the secondary aids. In the podcast I refer to this blog po ..read more

This somewhat a continuation from our mutual Riding Workshop. Here we are chatting about how to start with reward based riding. Presenting different alternatives. We both have go to preferred options about how to go about this, but as always, there are many ways to Rome. You are the one deciding what is best for you and your horse <3 Ways to access more of our teaching: You'll find more about me at https://www.rewardbasedriding.com/ And Hannah at https://connectiontraining.com/ Here you can find me: If you have questions or wanna contact me about courses or teaching, please send me an em ..read more

Today I am joined by lovely Susanna Davisson from Hästvis. We talk about trying to read the clues our horses behaviors gives us when we are interacting or training together. And how seeing them as clues help us be better at adapting our training. Susanna has a membership group in Swedish where talking and learning to read body languages and emotions is a very important part. You will find exercises for both horses and humans. You will find it here: https://hastvis.mykajabi.com/ Here you can find me: If you have questions or wanna contact me about courses or teaching, please send me an ema ..read more

In this episode we talk about lovely Ellen and our journey to help her become less crooked and more emotionally and physically balanced. Thiis episode one so if you have questions for the next episode...let me know. Here you can find me: If you have questions or wanna contact me about courses or teaching, please send me an email via my home page below thanks :) Reward Based Riding my courses, teaching and blog. Facebook where I update most frequent Instagram short form content You Tube-longer videos and training ..read more

This episode sprung out from a passionate listener mail and conversation and is dedicated to training our older horses to help keep them fit. I talk a bit general and give examples from my own training with my older horses. You can find examples of most exercises I talk about on my social media: https://www.facebook.com/hesselius.angelica/ https://www.instagram.com/reward_based_art_of_riding/ Or, if you are patient, in the upcoming halt course.  Thanks for listening!  If you wanna support this podcast the best way is to subscribe.   Here you can find me: If you have ..read more

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Joined by my good friends and awesome humans Do Groen and Ulrika Anderasson we are continuing on with the newly made tradition of picking one word for the year to come. So last year a friend of mine sent me this idea to pick a word to set the tone for the upcoming year. I quite love it. The idea is to choose a word that will work as kind of polestar. It will help you navigate. It will help you with perspective. ”It is both the port of call and the wind at your back helping you get there. It pushes and pulls you”.  The idea is also to activily choose the word for the year not to have the y ..read more

Core skills and foundation behaviors. Why do we need them, what are they and why should we spend time building them?? Doesn't matter what we want to do with our horses, these behaviors can be used to build whatever we want…but if we want to build dressage in new ways without guiding our horse with pressure this is of great importance. What are the first behaviors that we should train our horses? This is going to be my personal answer but some of the behaviors I include here are more universal for r+ trainer I think.....havent met an r+ trainer who doesnt work with targets for example. Here y ..read more

In this episode we chat about how session structure helped us create more balance and relaxation and how "pause" can be used as a structure tool. I am joined by the lovely dutch horse trainer Do Groen and together we share from our experience from when we started training reward based and give some examples how it can look when we do a session today. If you wanna reach us as a team, send us an e-mail HERE LINKS MENTIONED Reward Based Horse Academy: Two week hands-on practical course in January Horses with Choices: Do's Instagram Reward Based Art of Riding: Angelicas dressage teaching Here ..read more