The Emerging Equestrian is home to me, Holly Scott of Prineville, Oregon. I have over 25 years of professional teaching and horsemanship coaching experience including 10 years as a licensed Parelli Natural Horsemanship instructor. I have devoted many years to helping humans + horses gain connection through mutual understanding, trust and partnership.
In the past 5 years I have placed a larger emphasis on the role equine behavior plays in training and development with a focus on neuroscience-backed techniques that prove most beneficial to the horse’s long term confidence in humans.
My program and what I teach follows a simple set of principles that I have gathered from years of learning from others and been shown that they work. It is almost irrelevant what you do with your horse so long as they control the timeline and pace at which you do it and you stay honest with your principles.
- Allow the horse to make a decision, in other words, don’t micromanage them
- BE SURE YOUR ENERGIES ALIGN: INTENTIONAL (EMOTIONAL), PHYSICAL (YOUR BODY LANGUAGE)
- 3-2-1 Rule, pick 3 things you will work on in any one session, 2 of them are things your horse already knows, 1 is new
- Relaxation before Reinforcement, don’t flood your horse with ANYTHING until they show some relaxation
- SLOW DOWN, READ YOUR HORSE. LEARN EQUINE BODY LANGUAGE ON BOTH A PHYSICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL LEVEL
- 10% Rule, look for a 10% improvement to call it a win before demanding more or better from your horse
- PICTURE YOUR PLAN AND WHAT YOU WANT YOUR HORSE TO DO
