Monday - Marie Pruden

Sephira
All about learning to respond to my energy.
Learning to puzzle solve

HQ yield

• energy up
• exaggerate energy with my body as needed
• tag HQ
• reset
• repeat
• quit when she is able to do it from my energy

Backup

• E up
• take one step toward
• tag chest
• reset
• repeat
• quit when she takes a step from my energy alone

Circling

• IF HER NOSE/MIND LEAVES USE HQ YIELD AND DRAW TO ENGAGE THE MIND AND THEN TEACH HER TO FOCUS ON ME ON THE CIRCLE.
• the send
• stand 180 degrees, energy up (varies amt), lift stick, swing stick in one fluid motion and tag whatever lingers and quickly stick down and reset while she moves
• stand still til reach 180 degrees or mind leaves--observe her nose
• hq yield (with repeats/reset as needed) its a dance--lunge and use stick as an extension of my arm, tag if needed, remember reset in between each ask
• back up and trust she will come in

Riding

• passenger game for breaking gait
• follow my focus/target game--visualization
• mounting block use indirect rein or yield HQ to me rub reward
• apply circling game--every ask starts with a HQ yield like Dan's wheelbarrow. Is nose bending on the circle, if not correct with HQ. Is she thinking outside the circle or inside--watch the nose and watch for the THOUGHT
• TEST: when riding how responsive/how light to cue FQ/sideways/HQ from leg just forward of the girth, at the girth and just behind the girth. HQ can support by lifting inside rein if needed
• Marie starts riding session with HQ yields to unlock the ribs.