Is licking and chewing a sign of relaxation?

Is licking and chewing a sign of relaxation? Watch the video and see for yourselves.

If you need a hand with this, why not have a look at the Opening Communications Course - it’s full of amazingly helpful hints and tips to help your horse relax and begin opening up their thoughts and emotions to you.

Good horse training doesn't make exciting video...

Good horse training doesn’t make for particularly exciting video…

Good horse training is a lot of time spent on the basics.

to build trust

Good horse training is being able to get quiet and still

to encourage relaxation

Big secret?

A lot of the GOOD STUFF happens in horse training when we do NOTHING.

You wont see a video of me with a horse rearing, bucking or bolting.

When we address the reason for those behaviours, find our horses threshold for stress, and give them the skills and confidence to ask for their needs and manage themselves emotionally, we don’t need to push them to those extreme behaviours.

But it does makes for incredibly boring video ;P