{"product_id":"25-ways-to-make-your-horse-happy-essential-skills-and-unique-tools-for-making-training-and-performance-fair-and-fun-9781646012251","title":"25 Ways to Make Your Horse Happy: Essential Skills and Unique Tools for Making Training and Performance Fair and Fun","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eConcrete steps toward forging a strong partnership and clear stream of communication with your horse.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrue bonding is the key to happiness, in both human and horse. We are both social creatures who are instinctually drawn toward getting involved with each other, and finding ways to not only create deep trust in another (your horse) but also experiencing it (yourself), creates this kind of bond. In these pages, Anne Krüger-Degener, founder of a systematic approach to communication called HarmoniLogie(R), provides a practical guide to how you can build or repair these bonds. Part of this formula is a solid foundation of understanding built from a sense of empathy, benevolence, and compassion. The other part is a clear and unambiguous exchange of information, and this requires more than just love for your horse. It needs a training system ensures a smooth exchange of information between you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eKrüger-Degener knows that horses and humans often \"talk past each other.\" She helps readers learn to observe horses like a biologist, \"listening\" with all their senses, and reading not only what is \u003cem\u003ethere\u003c\/em\u003e, but also what is \u003cem\u003enot there. \u003c\/em\u003eWhen in doubt of what a horse may be telling us, she guides us toward slower, friendlier, quieter questions, ensuring that we prioritize compromise over dominance in the relationship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eInspirational case studies of students and horses are shared as readers are taught how to: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003eAnalyze spatial changes when working with horses.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003eWork with \u003cem\u003eactivation \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003edefense zones.\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003eRecognize geometric patterns in communication.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003eResist the urge to speak \"gibberish\" to horses.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003eTranslate the bonds built on the ground to the work you do under saddle.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003eBuild intervals into training that accommodates natural performance curves.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003eAnd much more.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith sensible advice that still puts the horse first, above all, Krüger-Degener's fundamental keys to making your horse happy are integral pieces to modern-day training and competing, ensuring progress not only as performers, whatever your sport, but as partners in life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Trafalgar Square Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/22\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781646012251\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200","brand":"Anne Kr\u0026#195;\u0026#188;ger-Degener","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51334071353525,"sku":"9781646012251","price":25.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_537b6cbd-f057-400f-83a8-0ae7296e90c0.jpg?v=1752583546","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/25-ways-to-make-your-horse-happy-essential-skills-and-unique-tools-for-making-training-and-performance-fair-and-fun-9781646012251","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}