 Does she come forward? Does she come forward with life? Does she just kind of come forward dull and not so enthusiastic? If I turn towards the horse with my frontal plane, I really need her to keep her nose between the shoulder and I'd like to set the rope up with just enough slack or belly so that if she did take her nose to the right or the left of her shoulder I'd be able to encourage her to come back center again. Let's try walking forward. This time I'm going to turn my frontal plane away from her. It's almost like I have a headlight on my chest and now I'm turning the headlight towards my horse. As I can see she's looking over the top of me so I'll walk forward again turning my frontal plane. If I slow down she needs to slow down turn stop keep the life up and back keeping the nose between the shoulder notice the head comes back to center head comes down because she's more focused lost her attention a little bit see if I can tip it back we'll see if I can have her tip her attention over more to the camera how far can she look over her left wait for the ear there it is let's walk forward turning my frontal plane away keeping my head up always looking back at the horse always knowing where is the horse is she with me is she too far back is she creeping up good turn back see if I can direct her attention to the side good over to her left good doing this can really cause a horse to relax it can be it can be something that you can use to get that horse to settle because they've got to relax so that they can bend that far they need to relax and then she'll come back to center the head will probably come down and I'll rub that forehead a lot this is preparing her for a bridling position so be really easy to take my rope set my rope up to where it simulates a bridle put that rope in there of course she wants to spit it out but if she drops her head down or comes back to center I'll let that go so it's a good opportunity for me to get that rope around her head and maybe they can get used to the human and some of the weird things that humans do and if you've ever thought about it from the horse's perspective a lot of what we do is pretty strange to a horse just seeing if she can handle the rope going behind her tipping her attention she's looking for that place of relaxation and you can see a little bit of a mental change there pretty soon you don't need to touch them they understand look how relaxed that made her oh and she blows a little air out of the nostrils so you're still drawing the attention it's not just it's not just the body of the horse that we're working with we're working with the mind first like to see her expression perk up a little bit see her life come up a little good when it does a relax and settle back down it's bringing her life up seeing if she can can handle that and come back down then I settle turn my frontal plane towards her of course look at the position with her head that's something we worked on I'm still ready for her nose to go to the right or the left of her shoulders it's looking pretty nice it's looking pretty good she remembers that she says that feels good I want to be I want to be straight and relaxed down low so that feels good to be there and on these young ones this might be a good place for her to go and if she's nervous can she default to her nose being straight between the shoulder down low see and if I suggest it if I reach up or if I drop my posture bring my attention down she'll bring her attention down she didn't always do that one thing is if you're training in a way that the horse is relaxing as you go it's therapeutic of course it feels good and they're relaxed so that's important but now the horse can really give you those movements that you want because they're in a relaxed state walk forward if I step around I want to see your hindquarters just offset a little bit now we could work this from a distance and if I just step make an arc to my left she'll cross those hind legs just a little bit offset the hunch if I keep her life up and I turn my frontal plane towards her lead her off to my right maybe we could send her off on a circle looking at her expression her eyes and her ears I don't want to spend a lot of time on the circle so when she's going along and I'm happy I stay in the center of the circle yeah I might move my feet in a small circle or I might just pivot in place but it's very important that when you'd like the horse to come to you step out of the center she crosses the hind legs a little bit she comes to me frontal plane ah good the head comes down oh and she smells the ground that's interesting oh she licks and shoes so I might just walk away from her here because I can take some pressure off of her I just did something that involves work and pressure movement she came in she put her head down so I walk I walk away if I go slow I'd like her to go slow it's doing a good job of keeping that nose between the shoulders and keeping the attention down towards me how about a backup I'll stay on tall I'll expand my spatial bubble so to speak back good step her back see if I could step her back and take her shoulder over good I'll go the other direction I'll take her back I'll take her right front leg over just see if I can get her to turn one more step stood there one more backing a horse up the foot that's furthest forward is the easiest foot to move over so her left front foot can step over very easy right there it's very easy to do good good I like how she sort of went forward so I'll just leave the center of the circle again she comes to me stop turned my frontal plane and she goes I'll put my head down low for you and I think that's a good thing reach up of course she puts her head down they don't mind this secret weapon something that's fun to do is to take the stirrup and simulate your leg and how your leg might work and move now we could ask the hindquarters to swing over so she steps the left hind leg under a step or two we could float all four legs over just the hindquarters notice I step back more but this way when she offers forward I stop and let her settle and it's like I'm preserving it for later it's like I'm bottling I'm packaging it up for later so that later on when I present the idea to her of moving forward with life she'll probably give it to me