Wow, what a month it has been! So many exciting plans starting to bubble up to the surface after a winter full of planning. The horses and I are starting to get ready for all the fun things we have got planned for this summer, we are all very excited and we hope you are to.
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First of all I would like to say hi and thank you to all of the new people I have met this week. Thanks for inviting me into your homes and stables and trusting in me to help you. Some of you have had some fairly scary experience and, as a formerly nervous rider myself, I know how difficult it can be to start with a new trainer for fear of being over stretched. I know how impossible it is to learn, never mind communicate effectively with your horse if you are tense, but I know the strategies and techniques we put into place to relax you and your horse will really work a treat, and from what I hear you are all doing great so well done.
Well done to everyone that made it to the last top up training....it was a blast! The sun was shining the music was playing...it was great. It was great to catch up with so many familiar faces for the first time in 2012 to set new goals for this year realising that all of your 2011 goals where achieved and for some of you even your long term/ dream goals you smashed out of the arena in 2011. You are the ones to watch! you are so motivating and inspiring and I only hope I can be a part of facilitating the growth of your communications with horses this year. Look out for more spring and summer top up dates appearing over the next few days.
Nirvana the stallion has officially started to get fit for the summer and so am I. I know if he could talk he would definitely be lecturing me on how to exercise some Christmas dinner portion control! What can I say, my relationship with food is deep and its real. Oakley is also starting some work before he needs to help me with a small demo at mine on Friday 9th Feb at 11am. As ever he is very polite and patient with me interpreting me in ways that are both creative and sometimes a little strange, but that is what I love about him. In fact, that is what I love about all horses; the relationship we can develop with them is never the same from one moment to the next. It's always evolving and changing as we learn to work with them less and less as individuals working as individuals and more and more coming together, two different species as one, one moment at a time.
There are lots of brilliant talented horses coming in for holidays and training as well as different clinics being booked so if you have some ideas in mind for you and your horse this year be sure to get in touch while there are still some dates available.
All the best,
Arran