CLINICS

Description

After many years offering horseback riding vacations to riders from all over the world, "Mexico Horse Vacations” & “Riding Holidays Mexico"  realized that an often remark made by riders at the end of the one week riding holiday has been how well trained and well behaved our horses are.  Many comments heard by us during the horse treks are about how riders wish that their own horses, or other horses ridden in other riding vacations, behaved as well as ours.  This motivated us to want to offer a horse riding clinic where horse lovers can learn and acquire solid concepts of horse training through the understanding of horse behavior.  This is the same method we use with our horses.   

The horse clinic offered by "Mexico Horse Vacations” & “Riding Holidays Mexico" is a clinic given and created by Alfonso Aguilar Rios.  It has been designed for horse lovers who are interested to learn about horse behavior and how to have a better communication with the horse.  This is a program that combines theoretical and practical lessons with some riding in the countryside where the riders will be able to apply the new skills learned in the clinic.  In this equine clinic riders of any level will improve their understanding and communication skills with the horse through some ground work and riding in the arena.
The clinic emphasizes the development of trust and partnership between horse and rider. The program is mostly based on ground exercises with the horses.  It is a very useful technique that will help identify and understand horse behavior and develop a method to teach the horse how to learn new things with trust and collaboration.  This will come in very handy when starting a new horse and will also help train or retrain a horse of any level of any discipline.  In the handling of a horse there has to be an understanding of its behavior; at the same time it is necessary to have the techniques and tools to properly ask something to the horse and be able to reward the expected response as small or as insignificant as it could be.  The important thing about rewarding a horse is that he has to understand that he did something well and one has to reward the small steps towards the desired response, not only the final result.
Through this clinic, riders will acquire the knowledge and tools in order to be successful with horses without fear, force or intimidation and will have the capacity of understanding and of working with all types of horses. They will learn that simple steps that challenge horse and rider can lead to an everlasting friendship.  It will be an experience that will change their life.