Course curriculum

    1. Terms and Conditions

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    3. Introduction to the Course

    1. Lesson 1.1 — Comfort Is Not the Absence of Lameness

    2. Lesson 1.2 — Adaptation, Guarding, and the Cost of Staying Functional

    3. Lesson 1.3 — Compensation: How Horses Keep Going When Comfort Is Compromised

    4. Lesson 1.4 — Posture as Information: What the Body Is Showing Before Movement

    5. Lesson 1.5 — When Posture Becomes Movement: What Changes (and What Doesn’t)

    6. Lesson 1.6 — Movement Choice and Avoidance: What Horses Do When Nothing Is Asked

    7. Lesson 1.7 — Emotional Tone, Safety, and the Nervous System’s Role in Comfort

    8. Lesson 1.8 — Seeing the Whole Horse: Integrating Comfort, Movement, and Expression

    1. Lesson 2.1 — When Protection Becomes Pattern

    2. Lesson 2.2 — Where Patterns Live: How Guarding Reshapes the Body Region by Region

    3. Lesson 2.3 — Movement Reveals the Pattern: Transitions, Turns, and Reorganization

    4. Lesson 2.4 — How Repetition and Routine Reinforce Compensation Over Time

    5. Lesson 2.5 — Recovery Determines Whether Patterns Soften or Solidify

    6. Lesson 2.6 — Adaptable Bodies vs. Narrowing Options

    1. Lesson 3.1 — Why Symmetry Is an Incomplete Goal

    2. Lesson 3.2 — Balance as Load Sharing, Not Position

    3. Lesson 3.3 — When Balance Is Maintained Through Effort

    4. Lesson 3.4 — Loss of Variability: The Quiet Precursor to Breakdown

    5. Lesson 3.5 — Balance in Daily Life: What Horses Show When No One Is Asking

    6. Lesson 3.6 — Supporting Balance Without Forcing It

    1. Lesson 4.1 — Comfort Is Shaped Where Horses Live

    2. Lesson 4.2 — Turnout, Choice, and the Ability to Self-Regulate

    3. Lesson 4.3 — Standing Still: The Hidden Load of Confinement

    4. Lesson 4.4 — Footing, Terrain, and Repetitive Load

    5. Lesson 4.5 — Support vs. Substitution: When Care Quietly Replaces Capacity

    6. Lesson 4.6 — When Management Replaces Adaptability: The Slow Path to Breakdown

    1. Lesson 5.1 — Just Because You Can Intervene Doesn’t Mean You Should

    2. Lesson 5.2 — Reading the Direction of Change

    3. Lesson 5.3 — When Support Builds Capacity — and When It Prevents It

    4. Lesson 5.4 — Knowing When to Change the Question

    5. Lesson 5.5 — Restraint as a Professional Skill

    6. Lesson 5.6 — Putting It Together: Discernment as the Skill

About this course

  • $350.00
  • 50 lessons
  • 0 hours of video content

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