Welcome to my blog where I can share my journey with you! I am a Licensed Parelli Professional Two Star Junior Instructor. Here you can read about my experiences with Parelli Natural Horsemanship, my personal horsemanship journey, and my journey with being a Parelli Instructor. I hope to inspire and empower you with my quest for never ending self improvement. I have been studying Parelli for 11 years and am an official Level 3 graduate. I am studying Level 4 with my two horses, Max and Savannah. I grew up riding horses the traditional way and was in the United States Pony Club for 12 years, where I competed in Eventing and Dressage. My first introduction to Parelli was with my pony, who at the time was not a problem horse. I've had my andalusian mare, Savannah for 7 years now and after 2 years of struggling with her while not using Parelli methods, I knew I had to change something. I have been doing Parelli with her for the past 5 years and graduated Level 3 with her fall 2010. In the Spring of 2010 I received Max from Kelly Sigler. I owe it to my two amazing horses, as I would not be where I am now without them, they are my greatest teachers. The journey so far with Parelli has been fun, fulfilling, challenging, and life changing.
Friday, February 11, 2011
Wednesday.. trailer loading
On Wednesday, we started off the morning with trailer loading. Berin had us play with our horses and warm up, prepare them for trailer loading. He had us stand at a cone, about 30 feet or so from the trailer and we had 3 sends (or tries) to get them in the trailer. I learned quite a bit in this session. When I asked Max to back up, he had no respect for me. When I asked him to go to the trailer, he did not even think about the trailer. Wow.. I knew I was missing something here. I had NO respect whatsoever! So after I attempted to load him in the trailer, I went into the arena and worked on his back up and disengaging. I would ask lightly for him to back up, then go to phase 4, then back to phase 1.. soon he was backing up much better! And his draw improved greatly! I learned to prepare him appropriately for what we wanted to do and most importantly that I needed to gain so much more respect with him to get anywhere with him.
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