Reward Based Riding

Angelica is talking with Dr. Katerina Junghansova from Vet Care Training . Katerina works with helping horse owners and veterinary professionals take care of horses more safely, easily, ethically, effectively, and with less stress. Katerina is talking about consent and what she means when she talks about a horse giving us consent and how that can look like in her practice. How can we tackle situat...

Reinforcement follows the same principles across species — but bodies, emotions, and contexts differ. In this episode, we talk about reinforcement and reinforcers across horses, dogs, and reindeer, and what cross-species training can teach us about food, movement, arousal, reward delivery, and thoughtful trainer choices. If you want to join on Monday the 12th of January (11 A.M Central European Ti...

Reward-based training isn’t just one way of working with horses — it’s a whole world of ideas, techniques, and creative approaches. Here Hannah Weston, Do Groen and Angelica Hesselius talks a little bit about their views on dialect in your practical training and why that enriches the world :P We also go into our mutual project:   https://www.rplushorsesummit.com   At this summit, you’ll...

This episode is a recording from the CT Club, where I had a great conversation with Hannah Weston, followed by a Q&A for our active members. We talk about how to set up those very first trot transitions from the saddle, and what we each focus on to make it work. A lot of it comes back to: Checking that the trot is well-prepared from the ground Re-training cues if you’ve previously relied on pr...

Angelica and Do talk about how the first school term, the future and why the basics are so important for the reward based trainer. If you wanna learn more, join or read about upcoming school terms, have a look here: https://www.rewardbasedridingschool.com/

You can find more info about Ulrika's lovely teaching and training here:  https://www.ullisrudolf.se/ SESSION PLANNER here:  https://www.rewardbasedridingschool.com/ I f you have questions or thoughts around the episode, we're happy to hear them via MAIL

Three C:s to check before riding.     -Connection   -Confidence   -Cues (aids)   This is a modified version of a horsemanship structure I learned when first starting pony clubbing. The meaning is to assess your horse (and yourself) to keep you and your horse under threshold and communicating well.     Back then the focus was more on an obedient horse, in my teach...

To work with the horse while the horse is standing still, in a halt or just parking, is something I am very passionate about.  When we talk about working in halt many think about the "full" school halt. However that is a tool being closer to the end of all the work we can do in halt. And the goal is not the school halt itself but what it the journey towards it can bring to our horse and train...

This somewhat a continuation from our mutual Riding Workshop. Here we are chatting about how to start with reward based riding. Presenting different alternatives. We both have go to preferred options about how to go about this, but as always, there are many ways to Rome. You are the one deciding what is best for you and your horse <3 Ways to access more of our teaching: You'll find more about m...

Today I am joined by lovely Susanna Davisson from Hästvis. We talk about trying to read the clues our horses behaviors gives us when we are interacting or training together. And how seeing them as clues help us be better at adapting our training. Susanna has a membership group in Swedish where talking and learning to read body languages and emotions is a very important part. You will find exercise...

A talk about Feldenkrais, horses and feel with Caroline Ritter. Bodý awareness is about exploring for both of us.  But in a little different ways. Here we are exploring our thoughts on the subject.  If you are interested exploring together with us we have an upcoming series of lesson starting with ”Connection” It will consist of us talking strategies how we can show up more connected in...

In this episode we talk about lovely Ellen and our journey to help her become less crooked and more emotionally and physically balanced. Thiis episode one so if you have questions for the next episode...let me know. Here you can find me: If you have questions or wanna contact me about courses or teaching, please send me an email via my home page below thanks :) Reward Based Riding my courses, teac...

This episode sprung out from a passionate listener mail and conversation and is dedicated to training our older horses to help keep them fit. I talk a bit general and give examples from my own training with my older horses. You can find examples of most exercises I talk about on my social media: https://www.facebook.com/hesselius.angelica/ https://www.instagram.com/reward_based_art_of_riding/ Or,...

Joined by my good friends and awesome humans Do Groen and Ulrika Anderasson we are continuing on with the newly made tradition of picking one word for the year to come. So last year a friend of mine sent me this idea to pick a word to set the tone for the upcoming year. I quite love it. The idea is to choose a word that will work as kind of polestar. It will help you navigate. It will help you wit...

Core skills and foundation behaviors. Why do we need them, what are they and why should we spend time building them?? Doesn't matter what we want to do with our horses, these behaviors can be used to build whatever we want…but if we want to build dressage in new ways without guiding our horse with pressure this is of great importance. What are the first behaviors that we should train our horses? T...

In this episode we chat about how session structure helped us create more balance and relaxation and how "pause" can be used as a structure tool. I am joined by the lovely dutch horse trainer Do Groen and together we share from our experience from when we started training reward based and give some examples how it can look when we do a session today. If you wanna reach us as a team, send us an e-m...

In this episode: Coming from the view on horse training as something that we do to help the horse become better at being a horse, we will have look at different ways to create physical and emotional balance. This is the key to relaxation and connection and a gymnastically sound horse. But how does it look and how do we get there? Are there different kinds of balance. Can we have to much of it? We...