Our Top Priority Should Be the Health, Happiness and Well Being of the Horse
About Hannah
– During her teens, Hannah began to explore alternative horsemanship along with traditional British riding and competitions, including shows, showjumping and one day events. With Toby, she gained her Parelli Natural Horsemanship Level 2 at the age of 13 (the youngest in the country then) and rode at clinics with Lucy Rees, Marthe Kiley-Worthington and Jayne Lavender. She studied equine nutrition with Jane Van Lennep (Simple System), Saddle design with Les Spark (Free’n’Easy Saddles) and clicker training with Alexandra Kurland, who gave Hannah her first formal training in positive reinforcement horse training
In 2006, due to Toby’s ongoing physical issues, Hannah trained as an Equine Touch Practitioner, becoming a skilled and sensitive equine body worker. At the same time, she was training extensively with James Shaw and his tai chi for riding. This work helped both her own physical pain issues and improved the horses’ movement, too. She began to teach his work and to incorporate reward-based training into her teaching. Following her passion for healthy movement in both horse and rider, Hannah’s interest in Classical principles, body awareness exercises and the riders’ seat grew. In 2011-2014 Hannah audited 3 years of clinics with Philippe Karl, the famous French Classical Dressage instructor, who is passionate about healthy movement in horses. Hannah loved the results he obtained and his belief that all horses can (and should) learn great self-carriage via lateral work, engagement and jumping. Hannah then took these exercises to train horses to move brilliantly and applied reward-based principles to it to train horses classical dressage with choice, joy and plenty of targets! Hannah has also attended courses with Enlightened Equitation, Eleanor Mercer, anatomy dissections and stretching and mobilisation (for horses) clinics, as well as deepening her own body awareness through Tai Chi, Pilates and yoga.
Hannah co-founded the Equine Clicker Conference in 2012, with Rachel Bedingfield, bringing the world’s most prominent reward-based horse trainers together, both live and online, to share ideas and discuss approaches to this ground-breaking work.
Hannah’s unique combination of skills complement each other brilliantly, giving her an holistic understanding and approach to horse training. It is all underpinned with Connection Training – using positivity, rewards and putting the horse’s emotions first.
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Hannah’s Favourite Inspirational Quote
– People for opinions and horses for answers
Who Has Inspired Hannah
– James Shaw
Time Stamp
01:32 – Go to people for opinions and horses for answers
03:04 – Getting her own pony, which is now 21 years old
04:45 – Learning is fascinating, it is a life-time journey
06:26 – Health and happiness and well-being of the horse
07:31 – Horses are true teachers, coach that made Pony Club fun and interesting
10:32 – James Shaw – Tai Chi for equestrian
11:30 – Toby is her biggest teacher
13:40 – Thinking and talking about horses
16:00 – Keeping focused on the business side
16:40 – Lack of clear communication and fear
21:00 – Enjoying where she is at
22:18 – Look for what your horse does right
23:47 – Contact details see below
Hannah’s Contact Details
Phone: 07813778785 Ilton London
Email:
Website: www.connectiontraining.com
Facebook: Hannah Weston Connection Training
Music
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