Introducing Kjrsos Magazine, Volume 15:

The Kjrsos Experience ~

Together, figuring out how we make these dreams become real.

Are you searching for help in creating your own amazing center of learning?

This issue is a guide focusing on the foundational principles that show the way to creating something unique. 
It's about moving and creating something new and meaningful.

Inside this volume, you will learn:

• Why Training the Eye Matters:  

  What if the most powerful force shaping your horse has nothing to do with your hands, your seat, or your training method — and everything to do with what your eyes have been absorbing for years.
  

• Stop Trying to Fit Through the Old Door:
  You have watched someone you care about hear your words and turn them into something smaller — something that fits inside what they already know. And you don't understand why they can't hear what you are saying. So you keep trying, and nothing works. We explore how, as teachers and facilitators, we can change that experience. 
• How Modern Training Creates Equine Neck Arthritis:
  There is a physics equation that applies to every neck, in every arena, regardless of what tradition says. And there is a statistic waiting in this article — about sound, competing horses, horses that look perfectly fine — that is difficult to read without asking: what have I been doing, and what may it have cost?.
• Our Most Important Question: 

  If the horse can't show you balance before you mount, what makes you think adding your weight will help? If you do this you're not starting from zero. You're starting from a deficit and digging deeper.

  So the question isn't "how do I fix the forehand problem while riding?"

  The question is "why am I up there if this horse can't carry himself without me?" That's a harder question to sit with.

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Volume 15 helps you ask new questions that are getting left behind.  Questions that you need to address if you hope to create your own powerful program. We need to expand our exploration to learn how to work within a holistic framework that provides real answers. 

Being Wrong Is Living in a Life of Possibilities

For guides and teachers — a conversation that shows what becomes possible when neither person protects their position. Not a method to copy. A way of being to recognise.

What You Bring to the Horse

You tell your students to relax, breathe, be calm before they get on. And you're right. But the thing you're actually bringing to the horse — the thing the horse is responding to — has nothing to do with how you feel this morning.

Why Training the Eye Matters

What if the most powerful force shaping your horse has nothing to do with your hands, your seat, or your training method — and everything to do with what your eyes have been absorbing for years?

Stop Trying to Fit Through the Old Door

Every time you try to explain what Kjrsos is, something happens. You can see it in their eyes. And it has nothing to do with your words.

An Exercise in Discovering How To Balance Our Mass

Our horses rely on us for many things.  From basic care to ensuring that we always do our best.  Part of that is learning how to ride where we limit the burden that we impose.

This article challenges riders to rethink what balance truly means. But as instructors, we recognize that no single instructor can prescribe the perfect balance point for every rider, so we need an exercise that works for every body type. This article makes the case that the horse, who must carry every micro-adjustment we make, deserves nothing less.

Choices, Life Decisions Can Be Hard

Choices.  Choices can be tough.  And one of the most important and the most difficult for any of us to make is who do I want to be.  What do I want to do?  Our jobs and our choices defining us.  So much so that it can determine whether you live a life of fulfillment or one where all you feel is fatigue and exhaustion. Because that is what making the wrong decision does to us.  But making that decision is tough. I mean, how do you really know?

What follows applies to and can be used by all of us, no matter what choice we are facing.
If you don't get this right, nothing that follows can be successful.

We Should Take Nothing For Granted

Today we are asking if the very thing that we need is being repressed.

Where Do We Find Restriction In Our Horses?

You already know the word. You use it, in fact — in your training, in your equipment, possibly in your hands right now. The question is whether you recognize it for what it is when you do.

A Deep Dive Into the Foundation of Any Movement

There are many layers to create a complete understanding.  You need a complete understanding to become the mentor and teacher who has the tools, the understanding and the education to make a difference.

Examining If and When We Should Follow the Instruction 'More Leg'

There are different ways that instructors ask for an increase in power, from engaging your core to telling you to use more leg. How many times have you heard 'more leg, more leg'? Imagine for a moment that every time you were asked, you were successful. How much power would you be trying to control? So is your leg aid even working?  And do you really want it to?