Touch can be classified as any time you physically touch your horse either with your body or with an extension of your body (whip, reins, etc.) While a touching feel is much easier concept to grasp then energy feel it is also very easy to over use. If touch is over used or used incorrectly it may interfere with the overall training. Example: endless yanking your around with rope or reins creates resistance in your horse and proves counterproductive.  Example two: Conflicting touch and energy...

This article will be part of a two part series on feel. The first type of feel I will be covering is the feel surrounding energy. Many of our students have heard us speak about lifting your energy or using your energy to guide the horse. In this article I will cover what energy really is, how horses view it and why it works.

Energy as it relates to our interaction with horses is the feeling that drifts through and between all living beings. Take any type of herding/prey animals be it horses, z...