Category: Luna
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I’ve been playing with some liberty leading with Luna recently, working off of some techniques I learned from my friend Jaya Erkkila. Jaya talks about her method as one of “playing” with the horse, and indeed it is all about having a willing dance between horse and human, no hardware or tack involved. From a…
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5/19/18 I’m coming to the keyboard having just watched an Elisa Wallace vlog of her working with a Kiger mustang and an OTTB for the first time at an obstacle course. The OTTB reacted to new puzzles in very much the same way Luna does, so it was really interesting to watch how Elisa handles…
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1/13/18 Luna was a nutcase today. This may not seem particularly newsy, especially if you didn’t know that she had, in recent weeks, suddenly turned a corner and been acting ‘NORMAL”, to quote my trainer. She had been walking. She had figured out that this was her job–to walk, to carry a rider like it…
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The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. –Sylvia Plath I found this quote on Pinterest recently, and it’s my new mantra whenever I feel like, “Meh, well I wouldn’t be any good at that so I guess I’ll just skip it.” My last post (did you notice?? It was only 2 days ago!!) mentioned my…
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Is anyone else giggling about the number of entries I’ve written which indicate surprise at how long it’s been since my last post, and how this time I’m really, really going to buckle down and get to the business of writing about training my horse? Well, here’s one more such post. Deal with it. Turns…
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Oh Good Lord, I just spent over 30 minutes trying to figure out simply how to get onto my WordPress account and start writing a new blog post. This seems to fit right in with my recent observation about self: “Self, you rarely allow yourself to get to the fun parts. You’re good at tackling…
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Has it really been since mid-November that I’ve ridden? I believe it . . . We took the trail ride I referred to in the last post. Luna was absolutely awesome. It was probably a two hour ride, with a bit of a crazy (in a good way) friend who likes to RUN so we…
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The worst thing I can do about this blog post is not write it. Since I bought my first OTTB a year and a half ago, I’ve been thinking that I could blog about our training together . . . and she’s spent a year in pasture rehab, an overlapping 9 months trail riding, and…