Friday - B Me notes for Session 2

The Lesson - Text

Part 1 - Do what your horse does Mirroring

Align yourself with your horse. Face the way she is facing. Standing about 10 feet from her side, align your shoulder to hers. Mirror her in Body. Do whatever she does. If she rests a leg, rest yours. If she exhales, exhale too. If she walks off, amble along with her – being sure to not put any pressure on her to do anything. Her job is simply to exist. Nothing more. (Complete passenger mode) Only do this if Try or Sephira are already in GM mode.Focus on every little detail in body that your horse is doing and mirror EVERYTHING you can. Do this for at least 15 minutes at a time and try it at least three different times. Often the first time is the hardest

Day 1 with Try: I stood too close to really observe everything so I missed a good bit of expression and tail swishing. She was not in the mood to move and I (RBE) got bored and my legs got tired so at 3 minutes and 8 minutes I asked her to move with basic Dan sticking together ask. She took a few steps and stopped again each time. This was not the exercise--I needed to hang the whole 15 minutes without asking Try to do anything. ??If mirroring needs to be subtle for human to human, should it be subtle for human to horse mirroring??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdmjE6tCxRs This is 8 minutes edited down from 30 minutes of video 0-4 min is initial mirroring, 20 seconds of mirroring at a walk. The task to magnify release with GM energy cookie is 4 minutes. (Task is to step with HQ toward me while FQ remains on the pedestal.)

Part 2 – Magnify Release through GM Energy Cookie

1. Request your horse does something – anything. have your horse feel an increase in tension (from your intent/request to do something) so that he can then release from it.  After you have asked your horse to do something, allow him to halt. Watch for all signs of release. Mirror any sign of release. 

4. Wait for a LARGE release. This could be all sorts of things - but often a long lick/chew or a deep exhale or big Yawn are signs off large releases. When your horse offers a LARGE release we want to make a really big deal of it. Let’s say he exhaled for his large release. You will exhale in return and lower your gaze/and or drop to the ground to squat – and do a 60 count. This is where you want to go to GM yourself for one minute. This is that ultimate cookie the horse craves. This is how you say YES this was IT. That was what I wanted. This is how you build freeways of positivity.

5. Do this at least three sets in each session and do at least three sessions. You can work this in to anything else you do with your horse. It can be within a riding session or just leading to the pasture. I would like you to practice first on the ground, but if you ride your horse feel free to do it while on her back as well.

6. Take note of what YOUR horse does to release. What are his Large releases? What does he do when he is tight vs. relaxed? What about you?

7. Take note of when your horse offers those Large releases the most. Is it after a ride? Is it throughout a ride? Is it when you turn him loose in the pasture and go to leave? Is it when you take him to the barn aisle to groom? Notice these things. Be aware of your horse’s emotions. This is valuable stuff you will use in the future.

Day 1 with Try: I used the pedestal task and stayed with it for the 3 times. First was small release, messy, I did not have my act together. 2nd and 3rd better. Try gave immediate Large release--big nicker--to say I am so cool I figured it out--I am so smart--where is my cookie. I did give the cookie and ??wonder if I can bridge in the beginning from good girl/cookie AND GM energy??? Then did the count but rushed it and the movie of what Try just did was not clear.

Discussion at facebook--prior to my being able to watch footage of Try and I

• Well gave mirroring a go this am--not as much fun as I thought it would be--Try didn't want to move and stood in one place--my muscles got tired just standing there and cheated and asked her to move a couple times during the 15 minutes. LOL Not what I expected. I didn't realize until today that the mirroring I have been doing--leadership may (or may not) have been shared but was never just me mirroring her for that length of time. I do enjoy mirroring on the lead line as we have some place to go. OR perhaps I don't have to mirror her exactly the whole 15 minutes and its ok to get some variety of movement going. ??

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  Michele Sayetta This will be very interesting...

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  Mary Miller Jordan Good thoughts Elizabeth Pope  .. There are two aspects to this Session (part 1 and part 2) .. for part 1 it is really important to not request anything of your horse - AT ALL - I know it's hard .. Everything we do with a horse involves our leadership in some way - but much of the point of this is to let that GO and truly submerge into our horse's life and way of 'being' ... remember to mirror EVERYTHING - not just if she walks, but the shifts of weight from left front to right front .. every TINY shift - mirror it .. I think we will all be surprised to notice all the little things our horses do all the time that we over look. Little things are the BIG things 

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  Mary Miller Jordan and for this you do not want your horse thinking she is supposed to be waiting for your guidance - She needs to know it's ok to just BE. Can you imagine a friend that ALWAYS told you what to do? It would get old. We need balance. They need balance. I have a 'cue' w/ Dance where I pat him and say verbally 'ok' that's his sign that he can do whatever he wants .. you want your horse to know it's ok to just hang out .. you might play around with different locations .. as long as your horse is in GM and you are safe it will work.

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  Mary Miller Jordan but YES Elizabeth Pope - please do try this in different ways and different time frames - you might try hand grazing too ....

VIDEO #1 Theory Notes
HOW can we encourage our horse to have internal GM? How to let him know that it is right and that is what we want. We in GM mode as the ultimate "cookie" for our horse. MMJ she counts correlating the good thing that just happened into the county of 60 i.e. a movie of what the horse just did suprimposed into the rhythm of the count.

Remember: Horses see our thoughts!! We get more done in that well spent minute than if we skip it. (finding the time to do it right versus having to do it over and over again wrong??)

VIDEO #2 Mirroring

• Do not ask horse to do anything during this time--15 minutes or could be less
• We always expect horse to do stuff FOR US
• Need to be able to tell him when he has done a good job--this goes deeper than giving rest or good girl.
• Use E/GM ultimate way to say he did right.
• Where is your horse most comfortable and relaxed. Horse not constrained--at liberty. not guiding horse even if horse wants to be on top of you--if need be have fence between you for safety.
• Do what your horse does. Build the tool before you need to use it. 12' away, shoulders aligned, facing the same direction, drop head and be passive--take it in. This can be a way to get to your own GM--Live real time visual movie for you.
• Horse starts to pay attention to her.
• ??subtleness/simultaneous ness
• Powerful concept. horse will be more comfortable in your presence

VIDEO#3 the "Cookie"

• Ask Try to do something--at this stage we are NOT concerned about what the task is or how we ask
• When Try does it, wait for the release, and ID what the release is
• Large release, magnify it with 60-1 count in GM mode and visualize what Try did.
• This tells her she is right--that she got it.
• big release I exhalt and melt--MMJ kneeled
• signs: exhale, lick n chew, nicker, tail moves, drop head, eyes soften, rst leg, blow

1. What does the horse do when she is "tight"?

2. What are her signs of release?

3. What are her large releases? blow, nicker, shake and drop her head

4. What do I do when I am tight? forget to breathe, tighten jaw and eyes

5. My release? blow, exhale, shake it out

term: statue mode LOL