Luke's mission is to inspire and educate people to better connect with and understand their horses, while both developing a great relationship and achieving high level results together, and these intensive five-day clinics are one of the best ways he has found to be able to do that. This allows him to go much more in depth in helping you develop a clearer understanding of the principles that he believe are important for building an excellent relationship with your horse. This way, you are better set up for success, to go home and continue to build on what you learned.
While he specializes in performance liberty horsemanship, where he combines relationship-based training with an emphasis on healthy biomechanics and high-level performance, he has also competed in reining, ranch versatility,
western dressage, and freestyle reining.
Even if your goal is not to compete or work with your horse offline at liberty or ride bridleless, the principles that he uses to help his horses and many others achieve these goals can help you and your horse with whatever your specific discipline and goals are. He works with people in a wide variety of backgrounds, and many different types of horses.
At his clinics, he focuses on helping you understand how your horse thinks, what makes them do what they do, and how to balance relationship, attunement to their thoughts and emotions, with skills and techniques that help you understand biomechanics, body control, and practical application of these things in the real world.
To do this, we need to focus on both the human's thoughts and emotions, and what they are feeling and
communicating with their body, as well as the horse's mental and emotional state, and how they are using their
body. Approaching horsemanship from all four of these angles creates a well rounded, solid partnership between
human and horse, that has helped Luke's students find great success in many disciplines.
Luke covers a wide range of topics, which may include,
but are not limited to:
Building connection, focus, relaxation, and softness
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Increasing awareness and understanding of energy and body language
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Incorporating clicker training / positive reinforcement
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Foundational to advanced groundwork, both on line and at liberty
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Luke's approach for teaching his performance liberty principles: learning emotional regulation, healthy balanced movement, relaxation under pressure, lateral work, advanced body control, collection at liberty, etc.
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Transferring Performance Liberty principles to ridden work (general
horsemanship, dressage, ranch, reining, and bridleless riding).
Clinics typically start at 9:00 a.m. each day. While the clinic usually ends around 5:00 p.m. each day, that can vary, as Luke allows time to adjust to each
individual and what they need during sessions.
Luke works with groups of two participants and horses at a time, and each session is typically around one hour long.
Each person and horse participate in a session in the morning, and again in the afternoon after an approximately one hour lunch break.
Contact Amy Dean at
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