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		<title>Why Horses Don’t Care About Your Learning Style</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 03:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Every few years, riding instructors are told it’s time to reinvent how we teach.New language appears. New methods gain traction. We’re encouraged to adapt—again—to how students “learn now.”&#160;Visual learners. Kinesthetic learners. Emotion-first learners. Inquiry-based learners.&#160;Horses, meanwhile, remain stubbornly uninterested.&#160;They still respond to balance, timing, clarity, and fairness. They still react to inconsistency the same way [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Basic Balanced Position: The Foundation of Good Riding</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:04:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Basic Balance Position is the rider's freedom and the horse's relief.Every discipline has its preferences. Every trainer has favorite exercises. But underneath all of it—English, Western, trail, sport, pleasure—there is one foundation:When BBP is understood, developed, and embedded, it supports everything else. When it’s skipped, misunderstood, or distorted, riders compensate with force, and horses pay [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Get Your Child Involved in a Character Building Horsemanship Program</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2025 03:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ask any horseman, and they’ll tell you—horses shape character in ways that overflow the feed bucket. The life lessons a child gains from working with horses depend largely on how their horsemanship education is approached. If the goal is simply to win ribbons and chase recognition, the character-building benefits shrink to a mere handful of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Encourage the Gift of an Experience with Horses for Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2024 19:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[benefits of horses]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[As riding instructors, we understand the benefits children receive when they have horses in their life, but Christmas, in this new age of giving meaningful experiences rather than gifts, emphasizing these benefits can affect a child’s life more than the gift of a new electronics. For children, horses offer profound emotional, physical, and social benefits [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why Now is Your Time to Ride: The Lifelong Benefits of Horses for Adult Women</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2024 13:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For many adult women, the dream of being around horses has been tucked away for years—buried under career responsibilities, family commitments, and a list of “someday” ambitions. But what if now is the perfect time to pursue that dream, to reconnect with the part of you that longed for the smell of hay, the soft [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Should You Strive to Ride with the Elite?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2023 19:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Riding with the EliteThere has been a post going around Facebook “On the Insane Expense that has become Riding.” Not being a Facebook whiz I’m not sure how to direct you to this post other than to tell you &#160;I shared it on The Riding Instructor Facebook page. &#160;Katherine’s post is in response to a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Wear a Riding Helmet Even If Parelli Doesn&#8217;t</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2023 14:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I refreshed this 2013 article about the importance of wearing helmets because it&#8217;s just as important today as it was ten years ago.She’d taken the polo pony out for a trail ride when the mare bolted toward home. As the mare made a sharp right down the lane at a gallop, Merri lost her seat [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Improve Your Posture, Improve Your Riding</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2023 19:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Posture is a Connection Between Time On and Off of the HorseI'd love to get students to connect their riding goals to the things they do every day. Take posture for instance. &#160;Have you ever considered how much a student's normal or learned daily posture influences how they ride? If students were aware of this [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Base of Support for Good Horsemanship</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jul 2023 21:37:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Base of support contains the first building blocks of good riding, but the components of base of support changes according to what type of riding you are doing. The Definition of Base of SupportNeuroLab 360 defines Base of support as the area beneath a person that includes every point of contact that person makes with [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Teach Riders Good Balance on the Horse</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2023 21:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It's All About Balance That's a loaded statement because it covers sooo many areas of our lives. &#160;Today I'm talking specifically about the rider's balance on the horse, something that's essential for developing an independent seat and finesse in communication with the horse. &#160;At its most elementary level, developing good balance has a direct relationship [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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