A Horse Lover’s Guide

Here is a series of articles that I’ve written over the years about horsemanship and achieving harmony and an autotelic experience.

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Developing Playfulness

As our horsemanship deepens, it’s easy to become overly focused on correctness, precision, and progress markers. Goals matter. Skill matters. But partnership thrives on something often overlooked as we “get more serious”: play.