Why Alternative Horsemanship™?
Lifelong Horse Skills
Understanding the Horse
Understanding Before Expectations
Alternative Horsemanship™ — through virtual instruction with The Remote Horse Coach — helps you create a relationship that’s not dictated by fear, dominance, or performance pressure, but by communication, confidence, and calmness.
The Broken Standard
In traditional training, when a horse displays unwanted behavior, the common response is to:
- Add more equipment
- Use harsher aids
- Impose repetition
- Try to force compliance
- Speed up the training
- Push, drive, or chase the horse through his resistance
These interactions magnify the holes —in the horse’s education and reflect a lack of human understanding. If symptoms are masked instead of addressing root causes, unwanted behaviors don’t disappear… they simply morph into something else.
Balking becomes bolting.
Tension becomes spooking.
Resistance becomes shutdown.
Owners are left wondering what the horse will do next.
The Difference with Alternative Horsemanship™
The foundation is built upon creating a safe space for the human and horse to learn in. Rather than trying to control, the focus is on understanding creating mentally available, emotionally calm, and physically willing horses based on their communication, mental state, and natural responses.
Instead of reacting to problems, learn to see the early subtle signs of worry, anticipation, or defensiveness. Develop skills to recognize and address the root cause before it becomes an unreasonable or potentially dangerous horse behavior.
Build a foundation through:
- Clear communication
- Observing the horse’s communication
- Understanding how to influence the horse’s mind to create changes in behavior or natural instincts
- Awareness of your own mindset, emotions, and habits
- Interactions that create a safe space for learning to build trust — rather than demanding fearful compliance or forced submission
Every horse interaction you are teaching him about the human experience. Your energy, timing, clarity of communication, and intention is reflected in the horse’s physical behaviors.
No more:
- Fixing the same problems over and over
- Hoping for “good days”
- Wondering what your horse will do next
- Feeling like training is a guessing game
When you replace hope with understanding, reactiveness with clarity, and frustration with confidence — everything changes in your preception, understanding, and empathy for the horse.
Let’s begin building a partnership founded on awareness, curiosity, and mutual respect.