Male Speaker: Body language at the beginning means discarding something. Why? Very easy. You want your horse to come to you and trust you and not be frightened. He can only do this if there is nothing artificial about you and he feels there is no hindrance and you are natural and at ease within yourself.
It's a long way to go and you have to work at it piece by piece, testing and experiencing and the first step is to discard mental unease. I can't change completely from one day to the next or go to my horse with a totally different attitude. That's impossible, but I can begin to change and abandon certain behavior that I have learned, that people have taught me and that may be has nothing to do with my naturalness or natural personality.
Female Speaker: When we play usual patterns of behavior recede automatically. The next step must be to reduce the many, usually unconscious body signals and the body's learned external patterns of behavior. These mechanisms are often based on the deliberate or unconscious use of external instruments of path. Fronts must take this first step. His gilding, is hectic and nervous, reacts to everything except his owner. Front should do as little as possible with his body, but what he does should be done as precisely as possible. He should only use many more gestures to lay and that proclaim to a certain space for himself. Other than this, he should let the horse be a horse and not pay it any attention. The result is only surprising for a beginner. The horse reacts logically. It follows and now calm and strong being, calmly and trustingly.
Male Speaker: For the horse, that's a bit more interesting. OK now, keep on straight ahead, carry on, that's fine. At this moment, you mustn't be interested in the horse at all because that's exactly what he finds exciting. If the horse happens to be standing, they just carry on past him, right. That's the way, exactly. Now there is already a relationship between you, OK, stand still. Don't look the horse straight in the eye, let your shoulders hang, snap your fingers a bit.
Female Speaker: Without demanding anything, fronts achieve something. Without being authoritarian, he gained respect. Without trying to force calm, he became an example of calmness. Play was followed by the principle of reduction.
Male Speaker: The horse will always react to both elements of my body language, the external and the internal, the unconscious, unseen. He would react according to my signals, in this case, he would follow me, either happy to do so or may be unwillingly or aggressively and I can learn certain things from this reaction. First of all, he is my external communication clear and consistent or could I have been looking the other way and doing other things? Did my arm say, come and my body say, go? The horse's reaction first of all tells me if my external signals were correct. It also tells me something about my inner state. The external signals and the inner state can contradict each other. I can give two completely different signals and when in doubt, the horse will always respond to the inner one.
Female Speaker: A remarkable case has been captured with a camera here. Klaus is sitting on his horse Yanoush without a bridle or reins and the horse is shying away from a narrow crossing. Beaut physically, the rider is helplessly dependent on his horse. Nonetheless, even in this critical situation, Klaus remains the leader, the guide. How is this possible? First, we can see that no emotion is openly expressed. The horse would immediately recognize the inner weakness and the external helplessness of the man and it would go its own way. It would bolt. Klaus does not avoid the cause for fear, at least as long as it is in too extreme and inner determination conveyed to the horse in the form of clear instructions communicated by just a few body signals keeps the horse in the apparently dangerous area.
Only the pressed hips and the body bent forward keep Yanoush where he is or allow him to draw back. After the horse and rider have relaxed, Klaus quietly waits in front of the crossing without giving any service signals. He waits until Yanoush has found courage and confidence in himself so that he can take the first step into the apparent danger on his own. Without a fight, the man has won. He has won the deepening trust of the horse.
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