Discover more moments when you and your horse work seamlessly together.
Deepen Your Seat Manage Your Energy Communicate Clearly
NEW!
Step-by-Step Home Exercise Program that Helps You Develop More Feel and Connection with Your Horse
If you're like most riders, you want to improve your seat and balance, feel softly anchored in the saddle... feel calm and quiet within... and communicate accurately with your seat, legs, and hands.
You want to have a sense of ease and focus within... be skilled in the most core fundamentals of horsemanship... and feel the magic of connection with your horse.
And you'd like to have a way to practice those core skills at home... in easy-to-understand and do routines.
What if the next time you ride, because of newly discovered skills and exercises (for both you and your horse) you could walk into the arena, or go down the trail... grounded... attentive... and engaged?
And what if you knew those
exercises were things only you can do
with your horse?
The Well CONNECTED
Sequence of Skill & Behavior Development
"I think the sequence is so great. I’m trying really hard to learn this better way of riding. It really shows. My horse is so much more relaxed. I can see how she is really trying to listen to me, and it is a new stretch for me to do most of my guidance from my seat and legs and breathing. Thanks for teaching me such simple but profound lessons! "~DeAnna
Discover 12 powerful exercises that simultaneously develop balance, rhythm, and communication with a horse.
Exercise #1: GET GROUNDED
It’s so easy to get going too fast on the inside... in a flash.
When you practice the Get Grounded exercise, you become mindful, calm, and engaged about your horse and what you intend to do.
That internal state of being grounded is what allows your true potential as a rider to shine through.
Module 1: DEEPLY SEATED
Module 1: DEEPLY SEATED
3 Exercises to Develop an Anchored Connection to Your Center of Balance, to Your Horse's Center of Balance and to the Motion of Gaits.
Module 1, Exercise 2: BEGIN MINDFULLY
Begin Mindfully includes four routines. They are designed for before you mount up, after you get on, (including your seat position, body alignment, getting loose in your limbs) and focusing... plus a routine for your initial walk to begin your warm-up.
Module 1, Exercise 3: FEEL THE MOVES
Feel the Moves includes a routine for feeling the motion of individual gaits through your seat and a practice for understanding how increased speed and distance impact all you do.
Module 1, Exercise 4: DECOMPRESS
Decompress includes a routine for when you pause and/or stop your horse to help you get grounded again. This is a routine that can transform your riding... and there’s one for you... and one for your horse.
Module 2: ENERGY WISE
Module 2: ENERGY WISE
4 Exercises to Create and Experience Rhythm and Speed Modulation with Your Horse
Module 2, Exercise 5: FLOW ENERGY
This exercise includes a routine for moving energy up and down at all gaits using your eyes, breath, and seat. You’ll move smoothly from one segment to another. You’ll be making waves.
Module 2, Exercise 6: CHUNK IT
This exercise helps you expand the concept of making waves to smoothly modulate your horse’s speeds. Now you’re not only feeling the rhythm of the gaits, but you also know you and your horse have a variety of ‘gears’ for your gaits, and your horse understands when you ask for them.
Module 2, Exercise 7: SLOW SEAT
This exercise is all about helping you navigate transitions. Transitions are best made with a feeling of being slow on the inside, using your eyes, breath, and your seat in a methodical way as you approach the transition.
Module 2, Exercise 8: EASY STOP
This exercise helps you get comfortable and skilled with the rhythm and the sequence of using your breath, and your seat to stop... without using your hands. It combines everything we’ve done in all of the exercises so far.
Module 3: CLEAR COMMUNICATOR
Module 3: CLEAR COMMUNICATOR
4 Exercises that Help You 'Speak the Language' of Your Horse... Develop a Relaxed, Responsive, and Confident Horse
Module 3, Exercise 9: COMMUNICATE PROGRESSIVELY
This exercise helps you execute a progression of clear communications for your horse. The word ‘communications’ expands the idea of cuing to include thought.
Module 3, Exercise 10: ENGAGE/LISTEN/RESPOND
This exercise helps you understand the purpose, energy, and application of communications. You request an action from your horse. You 'hear' his response and then you follow-up with a release or new communication. This sequence builds trust, willingness, and true responsiveness in a horse.
Module 3, Exercise 11: GUIDE/SHAPE/ACCELERATE
This exercise provides key guidelines for using your feet and legs to communicate with your horse. The exercise also gives you a simple strategy to eliminate leg/feet confusion for yourself and for your horse.
Module 3, Exercise 12: SUPPORT SMOOTHLY
This exercise provides key guidelines for using your arms and hands to communicate with your horse effectively.
EACH Exercise Includes
A Pre-Exercise Reflection
... to get you thinking (-: prior to watching the video/demo
The Video Exercise
... short 5-10 minute videos for clarity and simplicity
... includes an explanation and a demonstration
... a new exercise is posted every 4th day on the Well Connected website
A 'Cheat Sheet'
... a short reminder list of the exercise steps in each exercise via a PDF download you can print out and take with you
Lifetime Access to the Well Connected Website
... that houses all of the elements of all of the lessons
NEW BONUSES!
A Coaching Follow-Up Session
After all the exercises have been released, we’ll have a live coaching call. Barbra will answer questions. You may submit them early
2 CIRCLE OF TRUST INTERVIEWS
You will be invited to 2 live interviews that I will do with 2 professionals who I admire. The topic will be how they define and teach connection and feel. You will also be able to ask questions! They will both be fun and enlightening!
Her journey began on her parents' ranch in Southern Illinois with 400 horses. Throughout her life and horse adventures, Barbra has always been driven by a singular passion ~ to help riders grow their confidence. She is a Personal Performance Coach, a Cutting Horse Trainer, Publisher of online programs, Clinician, Author, and Speaker. She is an honoree in the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame and in the National Cutting Horse Association Members' Hall of Fame. She was awarded the National Female Equestrian of the Year Award by the AQHA and the Women's Sports Foundation. In 2020 Barbra received the American Horse Publications Equine Industry Vision Award. Barbra lives with her husband, Tom, three horses, two dogs, and a cat in Brenham, Texas.
Price: $147
Two Payment Option Available
~12 Exercises
~ 12 Reflections
~ 12 Cheat Sheets
~ Live Coaching Session
~ 2 Interviews w/ Industry Experts
~Lifetime Access to the WC Website
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