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Muscular Contraction, a symphony of neurological signals, a cacophony of 'Dwaynes'.
Muscular Contraction, a symphony of neurological signals, a cacophony of 'Dwaynes'.
Nancy Ellison-Murray
May 10, 20232 min read
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Q+A of the day: Exercise timing.
Q: When is the best time to do the mobility exercises? before or after a ride? A: As most of the prescribed exercises are to take the...
Nancy Ellison-Murray
Apr 14, 20231 min read
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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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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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Stimulus will be followed by a response, we can define what that is.
The more a particular stimulus leads to a predictable outcome, the more likely cognitive relaxation (reduced mental & physical load) will...
Nancy Ellison-Murray
Aug 3, 20221 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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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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There are no naughty horses.
We must be clear here. Horses don’t do anything to just simply be difficult. They do it because the stimulus they are experiencing, or...
Nancy Ellison-Murray
Apr 10, 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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Dental Time
Dental health and jaw movement is so incredibly vital to the rest of body functionality, mobility, locomotion and psychological health of...
Nancy Ellison-Murray
Jun 22, 20202 min read
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