Angelica is talking with Dr. Katerina Junghansova from Vet Care Training. Katerina works with helping horse owners and veterinary professionals take care of horses more safely, easily, ethically, effectively, and with less stress.

Katerina is talking about consent and what she means when she talks about a horse giving us consent and how that can look like in her practice. How can we tackle situations where we cant give choice and some practical everyday set up to check there's more option than one for the horse to choose from.

Katerina is passionate about practical training and will also give its loads of advices throughout the podcast. She also teaches courses on the subject and here you will find the self study course we talk about in the podcast: https://vetcaretraining.teachable.com/p/cooperative-care-kick-start-self-study

NOTE: As a student of the Reward Based Riding School you will have 25% discount on this course. Check the Classrooms Facebook group for the discount code.

If you want to hear Katerina talk Mouth health for reward based horses: come join the Classroom.

https://www.rewardbasedridingschool.com/the-classroom

Reinforcement follows the same principles across species — but bodies, emotions, and contexts differ. In this episode, we talk about reinforcement and reinforcers across horses, dogs, and reindeer, and what cross-species training can teach us about food, movement, arousal, reward delivery, and thoughtful trainer choices.

If you want to join on Monday the 12th of January (11 A.M Central European Time) go to: CLASSROOM: https://www.rewardbasedridingschool.com/the-classroom

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Reward-based training isn’t just one way of working with horses — it’s a whole world of ideas, techniques, and creative approaches. Here Hannah Weston, Do Groen and Angelica Hesselius talks a little bit about their views on dialect in your practical training and why that enriches the world :P We also go into our mutual project:

https://www.rplushorsesummit.com

At this summit, you’ll meet trainers from across the globe — from pioneers to fresh, emerging voices — each showing how they bring the same core principles to life in their own unique way. You’ll explore practical sessions, watch training in action, and join in theory talks that deepen your understanding. It’s not just about the horses — we’ll also explore reward-based training for us humans, alongside body awareness through Feldenkrais and Yoga. Because the way we move, think, and feel directly shapes our partnership with our horses. Whether you’re a professional or simply love spending time with horses, you’ll feel welcome here. Expect real conversations, genuine connection, and tools you can take home and use right away.

This episode is a recording from the CT Club, where I had a great conversation with Hannah Weston, followed by a Q&A for our active members.

We talk about how to set up those very first trot transitions from the saddle, and what we each focus on to make it work. A lot of it comes back to:

• Checking that the trot is well-prepared from the ground

• Re-training cues if you’ve previously relied on pressure and struggled with motivation

• Using the environment to help build duration and decide how long we can stay in trot

It’s also important to remember that stopping and reinforcing frequently is physically demanding for our horses, and something we need to consider carefully in the training process.

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Angelica and Do talk about how the first school term, the future and why the basics are so important for the reward based trainer.

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SESSION PLANNER here: https://www.rewardbasedridingschool.com/

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Three C:s to check before riding.

-Connection

-Confidence

-Cues (aids)

This is a modified version of a horsemanship structure I learned when first starting pony clubbing. The meaning is to assess your horse (and yourself) to keep you and your horse under threshold and communicating well.

Back then the focus was more on an obedient horse, in my teaching I focus more on a horse that sees the environment as a resource and is fine communicating any uncertainty about it back to the rider. Whether the rider sits on the horse or work from the ground.

Connection: how’s your two way communication working? Is your horse an active participant in their training?

Confidence: are you calm and relaxed in the environment you work in? Do you have an exit strategy? Remember your own relaxation as well. Avoid situations where one of you feel to afraid to have connection.

Cues (aids). Is it clear what’s what? Can you communicate with different body parts. From halt and go to sidemovements, depending on your level. I meet a lot of horses who think the reins are for moving forward (!). Not ideal in most situations.

Everything doesn’t have to be perfect all the time. But a baseline of all three Cs will help you succeed and help you structure your sessions.

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To work with the horse while the horse is standing still, in a halt or just parking, is something I am very passionate about.

When we talk about working in halt many think about the "full" school halt. However that is a tool being closer to the end of all the work we can do in halt.

And the goal is not the school halt itself but what it the journey towards it can bring to our horse and training. Even if we don't get there!
To improve the whole horse in both standing and movement, to gymnastize and to educate, clarify or improve the secondary aids.

In the podcast I refer to this blog post showing how it can look in pictures: https://www.rewardbasedriding.com/post/the-school-halt
And to this video, how it can look in movement:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk0aLT5pjzM&t=37s

Thanks for tuning in!

Angelica

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