Dressage Naturally

Today I had a preparing miniclinic on the topic Dressage Naturally. It's the first time I've had a lesson with focus on dressage since I started doing PNH and my brain is overloaded! So much new things to take in and new ways to look at old things. We had most of the lesson online to get the gaspedal right and to get the horse to relax and get "long and low". Did a great exercise where we moved the shoulders sideways one step while walking, Nalle got it after a while and started to lick and chew. When we moved up into the saddle I had no idea how to do it, my body didnt know "the Parelli-way" to do it and I felt like a newbie. I've noticed before that as soon as I pick the reins up for connection I tend to use my legs, bad! Today I learned how do it in a way that I already knew but didnt think of, typical PNH-student-behavior I guess ;) "Aaaah ofc that's how I should do it! It's exactly the way I would do it on the ground!". I set my mind on what energy I wanned in the walk and when he got under it I asked him to trot and then relax and slow down do that energy. Instead of nagging about get the energy up to that level I got way over it and the energylevel I wanned from the beining became the treat. Did that with long reins until he could keep the energy for a while, then I shorted my reins and asked for connection. The connection I got was everything I could ask for and more, he transformed his body in the right way and after doing the same thing as I did on long reins he could keep a good energylevel and the connection. He's brilliant! The gaspedal online worked as a dream aswell, we agreed on skipping phase 2-3, I give him a loooooong phase 1 and a short snappy phase 4. My instructor made me aware of that my very clever horse got 100% focus on me so just grabbing the stick the way to lift it is his phase 3. I have to start see for real how good he has become, he's really awesome. A LBI with explosive snappy departures and a will do do things with me as long as he gets to think and use his brain, the harder the better.