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My name is Marv Walker. I'm a horse trainer and clinician who specializes in working with problem horses. People from around the world call on me for help with horse problems and training assistance. I have put a herd dynamics procedure into print that quickly establishes a herd leader / follower connection between human and horse that is in use pretty much anywhere there are horses. I am an eBay Power Seller who produces and markets horse training / connection / problem resolving videos that have been well received. My website, MarvWalker.com, receives well over a half-million hits a year.
If you go to MarvWalker.com and visit one of the horse related pages you'll be redirected to AwarenessHorsemanship.com a new site I share with other highly skilled horse practitioners such as Bob and Kellie Sharpe.
I understand horses inside and out, mentally and physically and I'm very good at getting them to do what I want them to do.
No brag, just fact.
Any way...
I get so many requests for help from horse folks that I'm simply unable to deal with them all. I deal with as many as I can however I can but because they are scattered all over the place it's impossible for me to deal with them all.
And I also gotten lots of requests from folks who want to learn what I've learned over the many years I've been involved with horses.
So I've decided to offer a guided course of study teaching folks what I know.
I'm mainly offering the course for those who want to improve their horse handling skills and knowledge. However, I'm also offering this course with the goal of hopefully coming up with a collection of folks here and there who understand my concepts that I can refer the folks to that I'm unable to personally get to for whatever reason.
Kind of an Inner Circle, so to speak.
I'll be sharing stuff like...
How Awareness Horsemanship allows two minds to meet - yours and your horse's - so together you figure out problems the horse might have. It begins by using herd dynamics to "bond" you and your horse together so your minds can meet on a level the horse can understand and relate to. Your awareness of issues and problems then develops an understanding of how the horse moves, how he feels, how the parts of his body work with each other and how training methods or equipment can be interfering with his well-being.
How to establish that same firm mental connection from the very beginning with a foal or young horse, teach him his manners, and set mental and physical boundaries he can understand. How Awareness Horsemanship also prepares the youngster for the ground work and saddle work to come later in life. With a clear understanding of the leader/follower concept, youngsters are able to grow up happily assured of their place in the herd and without feeling the need to compete with the human for control.
In any relationship there always has to be a leader. The one who is the most capable of making decisions must be the leader, or confusion reigns. Since the horse is incapable of making beneficial decisions in the human world, the human must be the leader. In order for the human to lead the horse, the human must be able to communicate with the horse in a manner which can be easily understood by the horse. This opens a flow of information between human and horse... the two beings are linked and then merge into one mind. When that happens, human and horse are bonded, and able to communicate on a level each can understand. You then have the tools needed to be able to become "of one mind" with a horse, opening a communication pathway to accept and send vital information back and forth.
How physical and emotional issues can work together - and sometimes against each other - to cause a horse to be unresponsive, unfocused, or have behavior problems. Sometimes, indicators of a problem can be so subtle that we miss them. It is only by becoming aware of the horse as "whole being" that we begin to look beneath the surface to the issues that cause his problem.
How reading Nature helps you read horses. Nothing moves on the face of the earth without leaving a mark. Nothing. Awareness of these marks and the ability to read them allows you to "track" horses' bodies, and to see if perhaps you can find what was causing them to act as they do. When you begin to look at horses with a "tracker's" eye you will see things missed before that indicate physical issues that need attention... irregular hair patterns, different angles on hooves, crooked or irregular spines, assymetries in joints and a whole myriad of other performance limiting condition indicators.
How to use a "forensics-type" approach to looking at horses, using clues found on the horses' bodies and in their attitudes, to determine where problems originate, and how they affect the rest of the horse. By using that type of "scientific" approach you learn to draw conclusions based on your observations of "what is" in the given moment. You learn to determine, based on the evidence available to you, what the horse's physical reality is, and how that affects the horse's emotional and behavioral reality. This helps you locate "body and mind issues" that were life-altering to the horse; and to help the horse work through his emotional and physical issues.
When traditional training techniques don't work there has to be a greater reason for the problem. Very often that reason turns out to be an underlying and unnoticed physical condition. When you learn to recognize signs that something is wrong with a horse you see subtle "problem" signs such as twitching of a muscle, one hip higher than the other, or unevenness in gait, as well as more dramatic signs - rearing, bucking, lying down when mounted, kicking out while saddled and being ridden. All these actions, and more, are signs that something is causing a problem, or that the horse does not understand or is unable to do what is being asked of him.
How to use a wide range of diagnostic, healing and maintenance specialties to monitor and address address body and pain issues. Even a simple tight muscle condition can affect the horse from head to toe, and cause pain and behavior problems. As awareness grows you began to identify possible pain issues based on how the horse's skin and musculature looks. By discovering these areas, and being aware of how a horse's body parts interact, you realize how easy it is for the balance to fall apart and for the horse to be confused, in pain, and sometimes become dangerous to ride or handle.
To a vet, all horse problems are veterinary problems; to a trainer, all horse problems are training problems; to a farrier, all horse problems are hoof problems and so on. Nothing against any of these practitioners, it's just that we tend to diagnose what we see the most of. A problem can have a number of different causes. The key is to avoid being locked in to preconceived expectations. The aware horseperson balances all available information and utilizes it for optimal performance.
Saddle fit is far more important than previously thought. Very few horses are being ridden with properly fitting saddles. Saddle fit is a far more serious issue than people realize. Again, we turn to signs - pinned ears when the horse is approached with a saddle, sidestepping to avoid being saddled, biting at the air or the human, when the girth is tightened - all these are signs that the saddle is causing the horse a problem even though the saddle supposedly fits..
If you put on a pair of boots that don't fit, your feet are going to hurt. Add to that the weight and pounding on your feet in those improperly-fitting boots as you walk around, and now you know how a horse feels if his saddle doesn't fit him. In those boots, your toes are pinched, your heels are rubbed, and your feet are stressed from the poor support and being forced to work under those conditions. Imagine a horse working with an improperly fitting saddle - his shoulders are pinched, his spine is pounded, and the muscles in his back are forced to bear weight in the wrong places, sometimes for hours. The horse's back can even go numb. This type of thing can lead to very serious - even life-threatening behavior problems. At the very least a slightly ill-fitting saddle can severely limit a horse's capabilities.
In addition to saddle fit there are bit and other tack problems that limit the horse's ability to perform at its peak.
And more.
This course will consist of a number of different exercises and learning experiences and assignments that will be determined by the needs of those involved in the course and by whatever work I or course enrollees may have in progress. It will be a learning experience for all regardless of skill and experience level. It will be ongoing with no planned end.
Those who I feel demonstrate an understanding of my concepts and an affinity to implement them will be featured on my website as practitioners.
I have no idea how long I will be offering this course or how many folks I'll let in. The openings for this course are an incredibly reasonable $40.
If you have any questions or comments feel free to contact me by email or by phone with any questions you may have. My email address is Marv@MarvWalker.com Click here to email me. My phone number is 770 760-9561.
To enroll in Marv Walker's Intensive Horse Course send $39.95 cash, check or money order to:
Marv Walker
1202 Old Agateville Road
Hillsboro, GA 31038
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Thank you,
Marv Walker