Horsemanship 101
Cherish Your Journey With Your HorseDana Hokana brings you tips, insights and coaching to help you to become the best horseman that you can be. In these articles, she distills some of the most important fundamentals she has gleaned from years of experience guiding everyone from recreational riders to World Champions.
With these proven tips you can become a better rider, build trusting partnerships, elevate your horsemanship, repair damaged relationships with your horse or get the most out of your performance horse, all while enjoying the journey.
The Importance of Keeping Your Horse Centered and Balanced between Your Legs and Reins
In this article, I will teach you why it is important to keep your horse centered and balanced between your legs and reins. I will help you figure out how to tell or diagnose when your horse is drifting or leaning and I will give you some tips to fix his leaning or drifting. I will also describe what it feels like when your horse is centered and balanced between your reins and legs. Lean can be subtle or vague. It can seem rather unimportant but I feel that it is very important. If excellence is your goal, then you need all the lean out!
Restoration
I believe that many horse owners have broken and damaged relationships with their horse! I see so many horses that are apprehensive and or afraid of their owners, as well as owners who are afraid of or angry with their horses! Knowledge is power...
Ride Mindfully
I want to help you to become the best horseman that you can be. With these proven tips you can become a better rider. I am going to teach you true benefits of mindful riding, and how to become a mindful rider. I feel that very few people ride...
Enjoy the Journey to a Happy Horse
I would like to welcome everyone to my blog and newsroom. I am thrilled that you have visited our website and I am here for you and your horse. My goal is to help you to develop your riding skills, and to help your horse to be a happy, healthy,...
Raise Your Awareness Level
The first and most important principal to remember is to “pay attention.” Pay attention to what your horse is doing underneath you. Learn to read your horse, to diagnose what he’s doing and what you are doing while you are riding him. Shane Dowdy...
Looking Towards the Future
As 2016 comes to a close, I am looking eagerly into 2017. I am so excited for all that I want to accomplish in 2017! It’s easy to get lost in the mundane routine of our lives, and to avoid that we need to stay pushing forward and looking towards...
The Importance of Keeping Your Horse Centered and Balanced between Your Legs and Reins
In this article, I will teach you why it is important to keep your horse centered and balanced between your legs and reins. I will help you figure out how to tell or diagnose when your horse is drifting or leaning and I will give you some tips to fix his leaning or drifting. I will also describe what it feels like when your horse is centered and balanced between your reins and legs. Lean can be subtle or vague. It can seem rather unimportant but I feel that it is very important. If excellence is your goal, then you need all the lean out!
Restoration
I believe that many horse owners have broken and damaged relationships with their horse! I see so many horses that are apprehensive and or afraid of their owners, as well as owners who are afraid of or angry with their horses! Knowledge is power...
Ride Mindfully
I want to help you to become the best horseman that you can be. With these proven tips you can become a better rider. I am going to teach you true benefits of mindful riding, and how to become a mindful rider. I feel that very few people ride...
Enjoy the Journey to a Happy Horse
I would like to welcome everyone to my blog and newsroom. I am thrilled that you have visited our website and I am here for you and your horse. My goal is to help you to develop your riding skills, and to help your horse to be a happy, healthy,...
Raise Your Awareness Level
The first and most important principal to remember is to “pay attention.” Pay attention to what your horse is doing underneath you. Learn to read your horse, to diagnose what he’s doing and what you are doing while you are riding him. Shane Dowdy...
Looking Towards the Future
As 2016 comes to a close, I am looking eagerly into 2017. I am so excited for all that I want to accomplish in 2017! It’s easy to get lost in the mundane routine of our lives, and to avoid that we need to stay pushing forward and looking towards...
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"For I know the plans and thoughts that I have for you,’ says the Lord, ‘plans for peace and well-being and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope."
- Jeremiah 29:11
"For I know the plans and thoughts that I have for you,’ says the Lord, ‘plans for peace and well-being and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope."
- Jeremiah 29:11
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