When I Am Connecting With A Horse, I Can’t Think Of Anything Else
(Listeners’ Choice)
By Popular Demand we have re-published this episode. Each weekend we are choosing the most listened to and commented on episodes for you to enjoy.
This interview was previously published in 2018 Skye Wansey (259)
About Skye
– Skye has a dressage, showjumping & eventing background she has been a competitor, trainer and coach. She also now a racehorse trainer and uses a common sense approach to horses and horsemanship with her students.
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Skye’s Favourite Inspirational Quote
– Make the right things comfortable and the wrong things uncomfortable
Who Has Inspired Skye
– Duncan Gavin
– Ray Hunt
– Phil Rody
– Buck Brannam
– Tom Dorrence
– Tony Norman
– Simon Kale (023, LC190)
– Jenny Rouse (Skye’s Mum)
– Hughie Bowman (Cousin)
– Richard Rouse (Grandfather)
– TJ Smith
Recommended Books
– ‘True Unity: Willing Communication Between Horse and Human’ by Tom Dorrance
– ‘True Horsemanship Through Feel’ by Bill Dorrance and Leslie Desmond
About This Episode
– Skye discusses why it is important to make the right things comfortable and the wrong things uncomfortable. Skye also discusses how she learnt to be less aggressive with horses and finding her love of horses again.
Time Stamps
01:02 – Make the right things comfortable and the wrong things uncomfortable
03:48 – Trying to climb front leg to get her foot in the stirrup between the ages of 3 and 4
06:22 – Stopped riding for four years, after the love of riding depended on the last ride.
10:07 – How Skye stopped being aggressive towards horses
11:00 – Starting the gentler approach after watching someone else breaking in her mothers horse.
14:30 – Dedication, being passionate about horses, there is no such thing as instant success.
19:50 – The horse is spiritually present. Your horse forces you to be in the present
22:25 – How Duncan Gavin, Ray Hunt, Phil Rhody and others have inspired Skye
25:50 – How ‘Spider’ has inspired Skye
28:16 – Exhibition with ‘Spider’ at a Field Day and Skye rode bridless
29:10 – Spending time with ‘Big Red’ (racehorse)
32:00 – Living with her horses
32:35 – Feeling, timing and balalance
36:28 – True Unity with Horses by Tom Dorrance and Picture book by Bill Dorrance
39:50 – Training ‘Big Red’
42:42 – Let your horse be a horse
43:45 – Contact: see details below
Skye’s Contact Details
Phone: 0413 145 345 or +61 413 145 345
02 4883 4898 or +61 2 4883 4898
Email: skyewansey@gmail.com
Facebook: Skye Wansey
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