After my last horse post some people didn’t know I’m a full on centaur and some people were baffled

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After my last horse post some people didn’t know I’m a full on centaur and some people were baffled- and rightly so-about how I engage with my horse. I used to talk about “Liberty training” on IG lives and in older videos but I never want to be redundant or boring, so why not do a refresh. Liberty is a philosophy of horsemanship where we view the horse as an equal, not something to be dominated or “broken.” When we “break” a horse, we break its spirit. Can you ride horses humanely? Sure. I won’t get into all that. It’s all case by case, but most horses are not able to have pride or dignity, and Liberty is all about unlocking the magic and medicine of horses, allowing them to be wild again, to express themselves and behave as they would in a HERd. My horse was an abused show horse, so it’s taken me years to “un-break” him and to become the person who can drop my ego and expect nothing of him. Our relationship is built on hard won trust…there were many months I just sat with him in his stall, proving that I wasn’t going to force him to do anything he didn’t want to do. Took me forever to realize that when he was obsessing over if I had a treat, I felt used, but then when we went out to the arena, I expected him to nuzzle me and want to ride and I realized I was doing the same thing. We do no treats at all to keep the relationship clear and pure. Great lesson in how often we want love so badly that we settle for being used. As you can maybe see, even when running or being ene