Listen to Chelsea talk about how horses, as prey animals, think, learn and how that affects their reactions. They want to do as little as possible, move quickly and be safe. Their instinct and their nature is to move towards a place where they can be relaxed. They live in the moment, which is typ...

Chelsea explains how meditation can help work with clients and horses. It makes her more comfortable with a sense of stillness, allowing her to take moments of silence both externally and internally and locating a warmth of presence and gratitude.

Chelsea explains why she does groundwork in relationship to our connection with our horse and the connection to the work we do under saddle. She works on getting a connection established, which goes from the barn to the arena.

Chelsea explains how to use pressure and release with horses. Horses learn by the amount of the pressure that is put on them and when the release occurs. It not the pressure that teaches them. It the moment we remove the pressure that teaches them about the thing that we wanted to actually have h...

Chelsea demonstrates what it looks like using the different levels of pressure to help your horse connect with you. When that happens, he will look to you to see if there something he needs to do when other things are going on in his environment.

Chelsea explains some of the common issues she sees with people leading horses. Every time you lead your horse you are teaching him how to relate to you on the ground. She shows how the horse should stay out of your personal space bubble and then demonstrates proper leading procedures.

Another useful tool on the ground is moving laterally from pressure. Chelsea demonstrates how to do a leg yield from the ground with the horse’s head to the wall, which helps with a boundary to go sideways instead of forward. When the horse gets it right, she removes the aid and relaxes her body ...

Chelsea moves from leading the horse to circling, which she uses more for building the connection with her horse instead of for exercise. She explains her single cue aids for different gaits, stressing that using a barrage of aids to get your horse to move is just like using your leg constantly w...

For safety reasons, another important area to work with your horse is around mounting. Chelsea Canedy explains and demonstrates the procedures she uses to teach a horse to stand quietly at the mounting block. She also shows what she does if the horse does not stop and stand in a relaxed manner.

Chelsea talks about the aids she uses to ride a sensitive horse. The most important thing is that the horse responds to a light aid. Her focus is on light leg aids, getting a response and sending her horse into a steady, relaxed contact. She goes over the basics of walk, trot and canter and leg y...

Chelsea rides a horse with a personality style she finds common with many riders one that is wonderfully safe, but less motivated and not as responsive to a light leg aid. This type of horse often teaches a rider to work too hard, so Chelsea demonstrates how to promote a better way of going for t...

Chelsea demonstrates a circle exercise over ground poles that helps teach a horse where his feet are, how to maintain a steady rhythm and carry the rider all while managing themselves over poles. They then do the circle, go down a line and back to the circle all while trying to maintain a relaxed...

Adding in some small jumps on a circle gets the horse to think about things differently, move their feet differently and respond in a relaxed manner to new stimuli. The ride should flow smoothly even if things around the horse change. Chelsea focuses on keeping a steady rhythm and tempo. Later sh...