Virtual Horse Behavior Coaching Online Horsemanship Help Worldwide

Learning the Language of the Horse

You've tried trainers. You've read books. You've watched clinics.
Your horse and you are still struggling.

Alternative Horsemanship™ The Remote Horse Coach offers horse coaching and instruction that prioritizes helping the individual horse and human. It is not just another sales pitch, promise of quick fixes, or romanticizing an idealistic outcome.

Sam's fundamental belief to develop lasting, quality changes in the horse's behavior, is to start by educating owners. Prioritizing improving the human's recognition and understanding of the equine's communication, teaching them adaptable skills, and helping them learn how to assess and address the horse in real-time interactions are crucial to improving the partnership.

New students reach out for horse help with a variety of challenges. For some, it is as a last resort, after everything has gone wrong, or it may be when they are overwhelmed, frustrated, or unclear as to why they feel stuck in a vicious cycle of increasingly unwanted, and escalating equine interactions.

Others, having been involved with horses for years, have become cynical and weary of the cliché sales pitch horse training, clinics, and lessons that offer a one-size-fits-all methodology. For some, despite years of experience and thousands invested in their own education, they may encounter that "one horse," who challenges their skills, leaving them lost in how to approach helping the troubled equine.

Some equine enthusiasts experience degrees of improvement with their horse, only to come to the difficult realization that they created short-term "fixes" that masked symptoms, rather than addressing the root causes of horse behavioral problems.

Sam presents this question: If you find yourself unclear in how, why, when, and what you are communicating to the horse, how will you be able to offer him specific guidance?

She teaches students worldwide who range from pleasure riders, to those who have no interest in riding, to others who are highly competitive. Irrelevant of their interest, the common denominator is they are horse enthusiasts who are prioritizing learning how to work with the animal, rather than imposing fear-based demanded obedience and compliance.

As students increase self-awareness in how their thoughts, focus, emotions, and physical behaviors directly influence the horse's responses, their perception, understanding, timing, and quality of communication with the horse improves.

Learning to value and acknowledge the horse's communication, allows for a two-way Conversation, as Sam calls it. This creates a safe learning space for both the horse and human alike, while increasing opportunities to build trust, try, and willingness in the equine to participate.