Too Picky or The Case of How Important Beginnings Are

I had a friend mention her concern that I was too picky, making it hard for others to follow what we are teaching.

I had to sit and think for a while and ask myself if that was true because it didn't feel like that. Picky, yes, but...  I am allowed a but, the pickiness because of the pieces that we need to focus on as our foundation. The beginning before it all goes wrong.

A beginning that needs to be there when we get to the end. The golden thread that we can follow as it leads us to what comes next.

You will always struggle if you think each new thing that you want to do is something that you need to teach only now in this moment.

Because this never was about us teaching the horse anything.

And subconsciously, you know that. You know that the horse can do every movement without us. We see it when they play with each other, as they play with their bodies as they grow up. Foals playing with piaffe and canter sideways, able to do it all and do it well without us. Without stutters and hiccups, which we so frequently see when as humans we say to the horse I want you to do this.

Knowing that fact, when we are on their backs where does the awareness of movement for the human/horse body come from?

The secret is, to let them train us.

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