Best Books for Learning to Train Horses
Recently I received an email from a student in one of my courses asking what my favorite riding or training books were and if I could recommend a reading list.
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Book Review: The Mind of the Horse
How intelligent are horses? How do they think and how do they view the world? What are their cognitive abilities? These are questions that are essential to making our interaction…
Centered Riding
My favorite riding book to date is Centered Riding by Sally Swift. I found the examples in this book, while sometimes strange, really helped me visualize and feel how I was balanced…
Dancing with Your Dark Horse
One of my clients recently gave me several excellent horse books to read. I find traveling to be the perfect time to catch up on reading, so on my three…
Book Review: Reaching the Animal Mind
I have been a fan of Karen Pryor’s work ever since reading her first book, Don’t Shoot the Dog. Karen has an excellent way of describing how learning happens and…
Best Books for Learning to Train Horses
Recently I received an email from a student in one of my courses asking what my favorite riding or training books were and if I could recommend a reading list.…
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Balanced Riding Course
Find Balance, Comfort, and Confidence Riding with these Simple Weekly Exercises to learn horse behavior, training, and foundational riding skills.
ABCs to On the Aids
Develop your eye and feel to know if a horse is in or out of balance and be able to recognize collection, thoroughness, impulsion, and the other often vague concepts in riding.
Developing Balance in hand
Help your horse move better and feel better with exercises to promote supple movement, soft responses, and relaxation.
Building the Showjumper
Science and learning psychology meet classic jump training in this course to teach your horse to jump confidently and carefully.
Effortless Riding Course
Find solutions to your riding challenges and bring ease to your riding through understanding the mechanics of movement.
Calm & Confident Rider
This 28 day program is for every rider who has ever experienced fear in their riding lives – whether from an accident, a bad experience, or just the question of “what if?”
Effortless Rider Jumping Course
Learn specific exercises for the position, movement, and habits to be a safe and effective jump rider!
Stay in the Saddle
Make Every Ride count with Stay in the Saddle, 67 Exercises for horse and rider to bring fun and purpose to every ride.
Pure Connection For Kids
We’ll teach your child how to form a TWO-WAY FRIENDSHIP with their horse based on gentleness—not fear, force, or coercion
Book Review: The Mind of the Horse
How intelligent are horses? How do they think and how do they view the world? What are their cognitive abilities? These are questions that are essential to making our interaction
Book Review: Reaching the Animal Mind
I have been a fan of Karen Pryor’s work ever since reading her first book, Don’t Shoot the Dog. Karen has an excellent way of describing how learning happens and
Centered Riding
My favorite riding book to date is Centered Riding by Sally Swift. I found the examples in this book, while sometimes strange, really helped me visualize and feel how I was balanced
Dancing with Your Dark Horse
One of my clients recently gave me several excellent horse books to read. I find traveling to be the perfect time to catch up on reading, so on my three
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I signed up for the Balanced Riding course after watching Callie on YouTube. I’ve learned so much from this course. As you start riding when you’re young, you learn the fundamentals, but then you drift so far away from them in different skills that you’re learning that you sometimes kind of forget or don’t appropriately utilize those fundamentals anymore. And she’s really brought me back to that level of understanding specifically how to ride with the seat. And I think that’s kind of the most powerful thing you can learn to do as a rider, is to sit your horse appropriately, not have to rely so much on your reins. So that’s been huge, just completely changed the way I ride.
I just want to say thank you to everyone for all the comments and positive comments I have read while on this site. I have taken many of the free courses offered by CRK training over the past few months and it has help with my confidence. I actually rode my daughter’s horse for the first time outside in the ring since she came home from a free lease September. I have practiced many of the lessons and watched many videos. It was just at a walk but I felt confident with every thing I have learnt so far, plus I have learnt that I am not the only one who gets nervous and that it is okay to be nervous and thanks to Callie’s lessons I have learnt to take one day at a time and work though the times I feel nervous.
As a new horse owner and rider I wanted a training series that would walk me through each step of equitation for a beginner. That is exactly what I got with the CRK Balanced Rider Series. Callie King is a talented horse trainer and accomplished rider and it shows through each of her videos. She is clear and concise when discussing her insider knowledge of horse care, training, and riding.
As with all of the work Callie does, this program is informative, thoughtful, evidence based. The course provides good resources on horsemanship, managing fear, developing confidence. The videos of “how to” help your horse manage his fear were particularly good (in that) helping my horse manage moments of fear, helps me to manage mine.
This is why I so enjoy your videos and webinars. Your approach is so positively based and therefore so kind and gentle while still being very effective. You work with the horse and not against him.
THANK YOU!
