Free online horsemanship courses
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Course 1 of 4 in the Rider's Journey. Learn the method first, then learn the horse: anatomy, feeding, hooves, vital signs, grooming, saddling, and the after-care that finishes every ride. Start here even if you have ridden for years.
Course 2 of 4 in the Rider's Journey. How a prey animal sees the world and how to stay safe in it: body language, the catch and the draw, leading, tying, bridling, and the round pen. This is the course that makes the other three possible.
Course 3 of 4 in the Rider's Journey. The five ground maneuvers that build a soft, thinking horse, and the pre-ride sequence you will run before every ride for the rest of your life.
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Course 4 of 4 in the Rider's Journey. Everything you built on the ground, now in the saddle: seat, hands, steering, transitions, the one-rein stop, and the trail. The last gate before Level 1 is yours.
Learn the language horses already speak: pressure and the release of pressure. See the small signals before they become big problems, answer while worry is still a thought, and test what you do like a scientist. 8 chapters, 9 narrated films, field guides, barn drills and a certificate. Free.
The book, as a film course. Sixteen chapters on leadership learned from horses and carried into tech sales, project management, executive leadership, parenting and every room where you lead people. Narrated films, field guides, practice for the barn and the office, the Horseman's Agreement and a certificate. Free.
A 5-minute safety and what-to-expect briefing in three short parts, for everyone booked on a Horses on the Beach experience. Free, and open to read without an account.
Eighteen modules, eighty-one lessons, built on the book by Zachary and Kalea Leyden. The round pen and the staff meeting are the same work: read what is in front of you, make the question smaller, release the moment they try. For the horseman who leads, and the leader who has never touched a horse.