25 Ways to Make Your Horse Happy: Essential Skills and Unique Tools for Making Training and Performance Fair and Fun

Build a strong partnership and trust-filled connection between you and your horse through empathy, clarity, and true communication.In 25 Ways to Make Your Horse Happy, expert trainer Anne Krüger-Degener presents a transformative guide to building or restoring the bond between horse and human. Grounded in compassion, this book offers a systematic approach to a clear and unambiguous communication.Through inspirational case studies, Krüger-Degener outlines her groundbreaking HarmoniLogie® communication system and offers a practical guide to foster happiness in both horse and human. Stop “talking past” your horse and instead prioritize compromise. Inside, you’ll learn to:-Analyze spatial changes and movement cues-Work with activation and defense zones-Recognize geometric patterns in communication-Resist the urge to speak “gibberish”-Translate groundwork trust into saddle performance-Create training intervals that accommodate natural performance curves-And much more!With 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. Read more