Creating Connection Through Change In Focus with Warwick Schiller

After a decorated career training and showing reining horses in the USA, Warwick Schiller, alongside his wife Robyn, represented Team Australia in the World Equestrian Games in both 2010 and 2018. After years of personal transformation, Warwick has evolved his training methods to create a connection-based training perspective. In addition to making online training videos, Warwick and Robyn currently live in California where they host attunement and connection retreats at their Journey On Ranch.

The Creating Connection Through Change In Focus Exercise is the first step in a series of exercises designed to assess where your horses mental state is at any given time. It also builds the relation between tool and horse, there is no use trying to train your horse with something (flag, stick, leadrope) unless they are connected to it. The big takeaway here: wherever a horse’s mind goes, their body follows. If we want to be able to effectively control our horse’s bodies we have to be able to get their mental focus first. This exercise can melt away adverse behaviors by invoking the horses natural curiosity and getting them to be in the same place both mentally and physically. It is a simple, yet transformational exercise when done correctly.

Creating Connection Through Change In Focus

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