27. Combining Classical Dressage & Positive Reinforcement With Angelica Hesselius

<p>In this episode, I chat with <span style= "font-weight: 400;">Angelica Hesselius from Reward Based Art Of Riding all about her journey with horses and the work she currently does today combining classical dressage and positive reinforcement training. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you are someone that is curious about dressage and/or positive reinforcement then I would highly suggest listening to this episode as Angelica offers some great insight into the realities behind training horses and what is possible.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Listen to hear about:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How Angelica started riding and the various disciplines she was involved in</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How she chose her career path and allowed herself to pivot</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How she started dressage coaching predominately using negative reinforcement</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How she was introduced to positive reinforcement (R+) training </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Her initial views on R+ and how she viewed it as a blended approach even what she was seeing might not have actually been that way</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Her experience trying to help a horse overcome a behavioural problem with R+ vs helping horses that didn't have any "problems"</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How having support made the process much smoother and helped her to fast track her progress</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Her experience with classical dressage and body awareness/seat/rider biomechanics</span></li>