Challenge with Trainers

The challenge with great trainers is that they cannot put into words or give instructions what they do exactly, since it is by feel and intuition that they reach their level.  That is what makes it so hard, and so frustrating! And fascinating at the same time. 

They try to put it into words - a structure, with steps and guidelines and branding.  Then they train their followers and qualify them to teach their ways and carry on with their work – to leave a legacy.  

But many of their trainers do not have natural intuition and become so caught up in the methods, the aids, the tack, the fame, that guidelines become rules and the structure becomes their law, that they lose perspective of the real goal.  Representing their “Master” - Helping others – horses and riders.  

The result is that some of these trainer’s students no longer reflect the brilliant Master they so desperately wish to emulate.

If we can't FEEL what the horse is doing, or sense what the horse if feeling and thinking and we rely only on the technical, the art is lost…