Teatime with Elsa - Episode 91

Chatting about: The environmental impact on training…

In this episode I talk about the ways that environmental variants and stressors influence a horse's capacity to learn and affects our relationship with them. In our horse’s day to day life, there will be varying environmental stimuli that will draw some degree of the horse’s focus. This can impact our horse’s learning ability as they expend a portion of their energy and attention toward managing their stress and feelings around the environment. I explain the ways we can set our horses up to develop valuable skills that will help them have stronger awareness, thinking and social capabilities even in the higher stress moments, so our horses can independently help themselves feel better and cope with environmental distractions, even when we’re not there.

Originally aired on: May 4th, 2021