Whole Body Horse Health: The Hoof-Mind-Body Connection & How Management Impacts Behaviour

Many of the most prevalent issues we experience with horses aren’t necessarily “training” issues and are merely the symptoms of a greater problem in the horse’s day to day management and handling.

In this webinar, we will discuss how physical health impacts mental health and thereby the behaviour your horse is likely to exhibit in training.

We will go over how to troubleshoot behavioural issues and the process of ruling out likely causes to discover the root cause.

We will also go over the epidemic of poor hoof health in the industry and how “normal” it is to see unhealthy hooves and how hoof health dramatically impacts our horses’ ability to retain soundness and perform well in sport, in addition to their behaviour.

We will go over the challenges of modern horse keeping and ways you can better the life of your horse even as a boarder who has limited impact on how you can adapt your horses’ management.

This will include:

How to enrich the lives of stalled horses or horses living in small areas

Reducing risk of ulcers

What to look for in a good boarding barn

How to compromise and remain realistic in terms of where you may have to settle when it comes to management and you’re a boarder

How to navigate riding at lesson barns or leasing horses in situations that you may be uncomfortable with the horses’ welfare, how to address these problems tactfully and deal with personal guilt.

This webinar will be an all encompassing discussion on problems in the industry and realistic solutions while helping equestrians learn to retain compassion for themselves and not to be too hard on themselves in transitional phases.

The webinar will be watchable live but the recording will also be available to all attendees so you may rewatch or watch the recording after if you can’t make the live.