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The bias of us, trainers.
The hardest thing in training any animal, to change, or encourage a behaviour is the human bias of what we feel about the behaviour. But...
Nancy Ellison-Murray
Mar 17, 20231 min read
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Questions over the years. Topic: DM Exercises.
“But I didn’t do that exercise? Why didn’t you tell me to do that??” Your horse, under the expectations you place on it, doesn’t need...
Nancy Ellison-Murray
Mar 16, 20233 min read
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Directional predominance - forelimbs.
Horses show strong indicators of being predominant in forelimb directional influence - therefore, the forelegs tend to define the...
Nancy Ellison-Murray
Sep 26, 20221 min read
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Stopping the flight response: or teaching the flight response.
Commonly misunderstood ’trained expressions of flight’ used in the corrective approach to overwhelming, or overshadowing fear responses...
Nancy Ellison-Murray
Sep 23, 20221 min read
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A sense of agency.
Agency is to have a physiological & cognitive sense of predictability & control over ones experience. This can be developed extrinsically...
Nancy Ellison-Murray
Jun 8, 20222 min read
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The Quad of foundation movement patterns.
The horse as a quadruped has a slightly different way of managing movement patterns to humans. This also pairs, with the horses very...
Nancy Ellison-Murray
May 26, 20222 min read
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Relaxation installation.
Relaxation installation. I think one of the easiest trends to fall into with horse training is falling into the philosophy of the...
Nancy Ellison-Murray
May 11, 20222 min read
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You cannot build houses with houses.
A horse cannot master, learn & develop complex movement patterns from only attempting & repeating the movement pattern. When we...
Nancy Ellison-Murray
Apr 22, 20221 min read
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'Releases'
Licking, chewing, mouthing, yawning..... what does it mean? Is it what we must aim for? is that what we reward? is that when we remove...
Nancy Ellison-Murray
Apr 21, 20221 min read
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I have a confession to make.
I have to share something that feels like a confession. What feels like a fraudulent guise that I have just found peace with… after years...
Nancy Ellison-Murray
Mar 18, 202210 min read
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The frame is your own - not the horses to make.
As a Horse rider, horse driver or horse handler our role is well defined. We must know what we want & what the horse can achieve. Then we...
Nancy Ellison-Murray
Mar 3, 20221 min read
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Im sick of silence.
I’m sick of silence on this. I am so so so sick of seeing horses broken both physically, and mentally by breakers/starters/trainers, then...
Nancy Ellison-Murray
Feb 18, 20222 min read
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Choose something fun.
Well, Yes I guess so …. #equestrian #horseriding
Nancy Ellison-Murray
Feb 17, 20221 min read
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A post message worth sharing.
All you are ‘required’ to do is provide for your horses needs. Page link: https://www.facebook.com/hiddencreekeq Post link:...
Nancy Ellison-Murray
Oct 5, 20211 min read
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Anaerobic exercise - why do we call it that?
Anaerobic exercise is a type of physical exertion that requires the conversion of glucose in the horses body (and yours!) without using...
Nancy Ellison-Murray
Nov 3, 20201 min read
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