When You’ve Lost Your Confidence to Ride

Lost Confidence to Ride

Have you lost your confidence to ride?  This is a very common problem.  It may be due to an accident, hearing about an accident, or for no perceivable reason at all.  However, whatever the cause, there is help for you! First, don’t rush yourself and get on when you feel you are not ready, you [...]

Confidence in Horses

Chelsie Kallestad of Chelsie Natural Horsemanship and her horse Nugget, demonstrating confidence

Horses need confidence; confidence in people, in surroundings, in themselves, and in you as a leader. We need to help build our horses confidence. How can you tell when your horse is lacking confidence? You can see it in his body.  Now consider these things when trying to figure out whether horse #1 is dominant, [...]

Rider lost confidence after horse accidents

Q. Chelsie, I wish we had someone like you here to help me…. I am 40 yrs old next month and I have been riding since the age of 6. I have always been…horse crazy. My dad who passed in ’96 always told me from a young age that I had a way with animals. [...]

How to catch and halter train a horse for the first time

"Chelsie Natural Horsemanship" Rope Halter and Lead

Q. Chelsie, I am helping a friend work with a 3 year old gelding. The horse has not been halter broke. We have been working with him for a couple of months on and off. I have refused to try and load him until we can get a halter on him. I need some advice [...]

“…Confidence Builder…”

“An excellent confidence builder for both horse and partner!” – Nyla Greer (Clinic Participant)