I ask this question because it is a part of the whole perspective about experiencing Liberty Horsemanship with your horse — the getting-to-know-you part that’s so important.
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Sharing heart and mind with your horse on a trail ride
I have recently written about the trail in The Trail as a Metaphor for Life.
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Diary of a liberty horse coach
Many people ask me how often I do liberty work with my horses, and do I do it before I ride, or after?
10 tips to riding horseback for the rest of your life
(Okay, if you really want to, you can get off to sleep and for meals, if you think it’s necessary.) 
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Best Body Language blogs of 2013
I decided to go through and pick out what readers had deemed the best Body Language blogs of 2013.
Managing wild and crazy horse behavior
With the cold weather and difficult footing, horses become very antsy and get “cabin fever.”
Be true to your horse
We need to stay in our own truth. Admiring experts is wonderful, but even experts can be wrong.
Working with all six senses and horses
Touch, hearing, sight, scent, taste: the five senses? I wrote about touch last week. It is only one sense that a horse experiences. I would also add “feel/vibrations” to the list, because it isn’t just physical touch, it’s the sixth sense that something or someone is out there, or that horses feel it through the earth.
The importance of touch in horse work
Touch can change heart rates, calm and nourish. Touch is the way we sometimes make contact when nothing else can work. I remember being in the hospital and having someone touch me in a healing way, just touch, not trying to move me, and it made all the difference in the world. 
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Recognizing horse guides
The closer we get to horses, the deeper our experience can become. Horses can guide us in remarkable ways. My mare Jazzie came to me in dreams for two years before I brought her home. I am in the process of learning why she wanted to be with me so much. Sometimes (probably more often than not) horses know things that we don’t know yet or that we can’t sense.
