Overview
Combining practical techniques with insights into trauma, self-regulation, and physical cues such as breathing and heart rate, How to Untrain Your Horse offers clear guidance for more compassionate and effective partnerships. Ideal for horse owners, equine science students, and agricultural colleges seeking a deeper understanding of how horses truly learn and respond.
Addressing the disconnect between traditional training methods and how horses actually respond, this book presents practical, horse-centered training methods that move beyond dominance-based approaches. Drawing on polyvagal theory, the book explores how the vagus nerve influences emotional and stress responses, including feelings of safety, fight-or-flight, shutdown, and threat detection.
It also examines trauma responses, self-regulation, horse-human interactions, and physical cues such as breathing and heart rate.Ideal for horse owners, equine science students, and agricultural college programs.
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