Posture is more than muscle and movement - it’s your horse’s story. Every stance reflects safety or stress, confidence or concern. In this course, you’ll learn how to blend science and compassion to unlock freer movement, deeper connection, and lasting change for both you and your horse.

Every horse has preferences - small choices that reveal a little bit about their personality. When we notice and honour these, we show our horse their voice matters. This builds safety and mutual respect, turning training into a partnership where the horse feels seen, and free to express themselves.

Our inner narratives and past influences shape how we see a horse’s posture—sometimes focusing on flaws and missing signs of ease. By softening bias with awareness and curiosity, we can balance critique with appreciation, leading to clearer, more compassionate connection with our horses.

This guided breathwork session invites you to slow down and notice subtle sensations in your body. By experiencing this yourself, you gain empathy for your horse’s challenges during bodywork and training, encouraging patience, compassion, and a more ethical approach that meets them exactly where they are.

Postural development isn’t about fixing every deficit we see. Context matters: posture reflects training stage, emotional readiness, environment, or protective patterns. True harm arises when we push too soon. Ethical horsemanship means asking not “how to fix,” but “is this appropriate now?” - supporting strength, confidence, and sustainable change.

Conformation is the horse’s structural blueprint, while posture is its living expression - shaped by comfort, experience, and emotion. By distinguishing the two, we can identify strain, support wellbeing, and reduce conflict. Posture becomes more than form; it reveals the horse’s story, tension patterns, and potential for positive change.

Your horse’s movement is shaped by emotion and experience. Each motion becomes a message between brain and body, shaped by environment, handling, and training. When movement feels unsafe, traditional methods fail. True balance arises from curiosity, freedom, and emotional safety - allowing the nervous system to explore, adapt, and rediscover joy in motion.

The poll is the point where your horse’s biomechanics and emotions meet. This video discusses how the TMJ, hyoid apparatus, and AO and AA joints interrelate, how restriction here affects the whole body, and how your horse’s emotional experience influences comfort.

This video demonstrates palpation of atlanto-occipital extension, identifying normal versus restricted movement between the occiput and atlas. It includes guidance on how to position your body to enhance horse comfort, and your sensitivity while assessing poll mobility, supporting precise observation of functional range and subtle motion quality.

This video explores palpating the temporomandibular joint (TMJ). You’ll learn to feel how the tissues respond and change beneath your fingertips, and to compare left and right for subtle differences. Gentle touch deepens your awareness of how comfortable your horse’s TMJ is.

This video explores how to palpate the hyoid apparatus using light touch. You’ll learn to locate the lingual process, assess symmetry and tissue texture, and identify subtle signs of restriction or discomfort.

In this video, we explore a gentle energy and light-touch technique to help soothe tension around the poll. You’ll learn to cultivate your own comforting energy, use soft contact over the nuchal crest, and adapt the approach for horses with poll trauma to encourage relaxation, and physical and emotional release.

Explore the intricate relationship between the bones, muscles and ligaments within the horse’s neck. This lesson delves into anatomy, movement, and ethical training, guiding you to recognise true freedom of motion and the welfare implications of our choices.

Our horses spend most of their lives outside of formal training. This lesson explores how everyday eating postures and environment shape their neck posture and influence their nervous system health — and how thoughtful forage placement can encourage different muscle activations, and softness throughout the topline, supporting well-being far beyond the training session.

This video demonstrates how to palpate your horse’s neck. It includes guidance on how to assess your horse’s association to pressure on the headcollar, how to help them to soften to contact on the head collar and how to assess lateral bending in their neck.

This video breaks down the horse’s shoulder complex - developing your understanding of anatomy and range of motion. Learn to identify restrictions, interpret posture, and understand how scapular glide, scapulohumeral mobility, and muscle balance influence forelimb function.

This treat scatter exercise helps your horse release tension and explore new movement without direct influence from the handler. By engaging the nervous system through encouraging foraging behaviours, we encourage improvement in global range of motion - though most notably through the neck, shoulders and back.

This lesson focuses on assessing your horse’s shoulder range of motion through movement and feel rather than palpating muscles. By observing how the leg hangs, glides, and circles, you can identify restrictions, fascial tightness, and compensations - gaining clearer insight into how the shoulder and elbow work together to create motion.