Module 2

Relaxation

You will enjoy a relaxed horse that is a safer and happier horse free from the tension that compromises training and performance.
  • Trust me
  • Lower the head
  • It’s not a trap
  • Lots of breaks
  • Back-Up to improve trust and respect
  • Stand Still – The Parking Spot
  • Mini & Maxi lateral flexion
  • Mini & Maxi disengagement
  • Horse BEHAVIOR & FIX

Module 3

Responsiveness

You will enjoy the feeling of riding a responsive horse one that feels light, soft and a joy to handle and ride.
  • Non-Negotiables
  • Awareness – Who is moving who
  • Lightness – Timing of the release
  • Three ways to go backwards
  • Three ways to go forwards
  • Three ways to move the forehand
  • Three ways to move the hindquarters
  • Lowering the head and neck
  • Stay forward on a circle
  • Go and Park – emotional fitness
  • Coordinating your aids (Headlights)
  • Be ready! (Barking orders)
  • Module 4

    Confidence

    You will enjoy a dramatically enhanced feeling of confidence for confidence is the key to learning and training excellence. More importantly, a confident horse is both happier and healthier.
  • How to build it, how to destroy it
  • YOUR confidence
  • Expose and expand
  • Touch This
  • Jumps
  • Water crossing
  • Trailer loading
  • Best place to be is with me!
  • New environments
  • Spooking
  • Other horses / riding in company
  • Learning
  • Trust and respect
  • Confidence & curiosity = super learner
  • Module 5

    Impulsion

    You will understand that Impulsion means “go” and “slow” are in balance. It is the key to good riding and control through understanding rather than force.
  • Balance forwards and backwards
  • Importance of “back up” / rein back
  • Speed control by the numbers (1-4)
  • Transitions between gaits
  • Flow forward
  • Ready to go
  • Ready to slow
  • Downward transitions without pulling the reins
  • Sustain gait
  • Complimentary exercises
  • Module 6

    Bending

    You will understand that bending and flexion create suppleness, better balance and straightness. It relieves stiffness and develops healthy biomechanics.
  • Fix the Brace (stiffness)
  • Develop flexibility
  • Mini & maxi bends
  • Bit Position – Follow the bit, follow my body
  • Latitudinal Flexion
  • Longitudinal Flexion (stretching)
  • One Rein Suppling
  • Triangle Rein
  • Anchor inside rein (learn outside rein)
  • Flexion Rein
  • Skis and Headlights
  • Leg yield – straight lines & circles
  • Module 7

    Harmony

    You will enjoy achieving a soft feeling in every interaction with the horse, which is a worthy goal. There is nothing more beautiful than the synergistic union of horse and human.
  • The key to harmony
  • I’ll start it, you finish it (Assign the gait, the task, etc.)
  • Invite versus command: I’m doing this, how about you?
  • The secret of invisible aids
  • Bit Positioning (on the circle, in a direction, etc.)
  • Promote willingness
  • Healthy Movement
  • Rhythm and relaxation
  • Flow from this to that
  • Quality assurance – the rider (timing, balance, clarity)
  • Quality assurance – the horse (relaxation, responsiveness)
  • Module 8

    Agility

    You will understand that agility is the key to mental and physical collection. It naturally produces a state of readiness and develops athletic ability in both horse and rider.
  • Effective position
  • Balance
  • Rapid transitions: Engagement is readiness – Go, stop, back up, right, left, slow, fast…
  • Endless transitions – simple and advanced
  • Turns and circles, big and small
  • Shoulder In / Haunches In / Half Pass
  • Jumps
  • Laterals
  • Flying Changes
  • Module 9

    Purpose

    You will understand that purpose gives horsemanship and riding more meaning. It gives you a goal, keeps you motivated, growing, and makes you a better leader for your horse.
  • The importance of goals
  • How to set and sequence your goals – especially for your horse. What do you want him or her to become? Note: “Happy” is not a purpose, that is about the quality of the relationship, no matter what you do
  • Choose your fun! (Liberty, dressage, jumping, reining, cow-working, trail, bridle-less riding, long-reining…)
  • How to give everything a purpose – Purpose gives you motivation to progress, improve and learn more.  It helps guide your training plans. Best of all, it gives you something to celebrate as you achieve milestones on the way!
  • Pressure versus pleasure
  • How not to get nervous
  • Balance your training exercises
  • Module 10

    Power

    Uou will understand how to use power without force, add brilliance to performance, maximize your horse’s talent and discover the key to positive energy and exuberance.
  • What is power, when do you want/need it?
  • Developing positive power
  • Averting negative power
  • Strength, speed and energy
  • Performance mindset
  • Maintain confidence (relaxation) in performance – (Heart Rate Monitor)
  • Advance – Achieve –
    Succeed

    Chart Your Progress with the
    Happy Horse Success
    Program
    The secret of motivation is having a purpose. Waking up every day with the purpose of making
    your horse happy is a noble pursuit and the Happy Horse Curriculum teaches you how to do that
    step by step, module by module.

    Now it’s time to track your
    progress and success…

    The Happy Horse Success Program drives you to advance, achieve and succeed. It will keep you on track as well as help you celebrate and recognize your achievement

    Measuring your progress is the way to stay motivated and progressive. You can do this through self assessment and/or professional evaluation. Get ready to collect your awards!

    Here’s how
    it works!

    1.

    Badge Completion Awards

    Complete a Module, Self-Assess, Get a Badge.

    Work through the lessons in each module and check them off your checklist.
    When you have completed the lessons and self assessments for each Module download your virtual badge to celebrate and signify what you’ve accomplished.

    There are 10 badges available for ground handling and 9 for riding accomplishments!
    Collect them virtually and get the iron-on patches to proudly wear on your sleeve, vest, jacket, or put it on a saddle blanket or wall-hanging…!

    2.

    Level Awards

    Take the Official Test for each Level

    If you are success driven and want professional evaluations, take the next step. The Levels awards are designed for each tier of the curriculum and there is a short, specific test for you to perform:

    1st Level – Core Behaviors (Modules 1-3)
    2nd Level – Qualities (Modules 4-6)
    3rd Level – Performance (Modules 7-10)

    Send in a video of the test for each Level, receive a professional evaluation and feedback. You earn a certificate and special Level Badge (digital and iron-on) for your achievement!

    Here’s Proof that the Happy
    Horse
    Curriculum Will Help You
    Achieve Your Goals With Your
    Horse

    If you’ve been searching for a step-by-step blueprint to a successful partnership with your horse, you’ve finally found it.

    I am so excited for Linda’s new curriculum as I feel it is something that has been needed in the horse industry for a long time. There are a lot of techniques out there but do people really understand how to solve the problems they may be having with their horses? Can they accurately read their horse and know what to do? Linda’s curriculum will give students, professionals and anyone in the horse industry the answers to all these questions and more! As a Happy Horse Happy Life instructor, I have first hand seen massive transformations in students and horses in a short amount of time with this information. As a student myself, I have a deeper understanding of what I now need to do to take my horsemanship to the next level. The best part is that throughout this whole learning process Linda makes it easy to understand, motivating and the outcome is progress, happy people and even happier horses.
    Courtney
    Crane
    HHHL Instructor
    I have been reviewing Linda’s program since March. I have had some time to not only utilize the program with my own horses, but teach it as well. Having a path to follow is so important! Linda’s framework is the 10 modules. They can be used both as a way to make a plan for progress as well as diagnostic tools to find our missing pieces so that we can solve our own puzzles. The core behaviors in the first three modules are such a great place to start! They cover a great majority of many of the bumps in the road we commonly encounter as well as give us the strategies we need to develop the partnership we all dream of. Personally, I feel the remaining modules will just be icing on the cake. These are exciting times. I feel so fortunate to be part of such a remarkably empowering program!
    Coach
    Kristi Smith
    HHHL Instructor
    I am so excited for Linda’s new curriculum as I feel it is something that has been needed in the horse industry for a long time. There are a lot of techniques out there but do people really understand how to solve the problems they may be having with their horses? Can they accurately read their horse and know what to do? Linda’s curriculum will give students, professionals and anyone in the horse industry the answers to all these questions and more! As a Happy Horse Happy Life instructor, I have first hand seen massive transformations in students and horses in a short amount of time with this information. As a student myself, I have a deeper understanding of what I now need to do to take my horsemanship to the next level. The best part is that throughout this whole learning process Linda makes it easy to understand, motivating and the outcome is progress, happy people and even happier horses.
    Courtney Crane
    HHHL Instructor
    I have been reviewing Linda’s program since March. I have had some time to not only utilize the program with my own horses, but teach it as well. Having a path to follow is so important! Linda’s framework is the 10 modules. They can be used both as a way to make a plan for progress as well as diagnostic tools to find our missing pieces so that we can solve our own puzzles. The core behaviors in the first three modules are such a great place to start! They cover a great majority of many of the bumps in the road we commonly encounter as well as give us the strategies we need to develop the partnership we all dream of. Personally, I feel the remaining modules will just be icing on the cake. These are exciting times. I feel so fortunate to be part of such a remarkably empowering program!
    Coach
    Kristi Smith
    HHHL Instructor
    I am so excited for Linda’s new curriculum as I feel it is something that has been needed in the horse industry for a long time. There are a lot of techniques out there but do people really understand how to solve the problems they may be having with their horses? Can they accurately read their horse and know what to do? Linda’s curriculum will give students, professionals and anyone in the horse industry the answers to all these questions and more! As a Happy Horse Happy Life instructor, I have first hand seen massive transformations in students and horses in a short amount of time with this information. As a student myself, I have a deeper understanding of what I now need to do to take my horsemanship to the next level. The best part is that throughout this whole learning process Linda makes it easy to understand, motivating and the outcome is progress, happy people and even happier horses.
    Courtney Crane
    HHHL Instructor
    I have been reviewing Linda’s program since March. I have had some time to not only utilize the program with my own horses, but teach it as well. Having a path to follow is so important! Linda’s framework is the 10 modules. They can be used both as a way to make a plan for progress as well as diagnostic tools to find our missing pieces so that we can solve our own puzzles. The core behaviors in the first three modules are such a great place to start! They cover a great majority of many of the bumps in the road we commonly encounter as well as give us the strategies we need to develop the partnership we all dream of. Personally, I feel the remaining modules will just be icing on the cake. These are exciting times. I feel so fortunate to be part of such a remarkably empowering program!
    Coach
    Kristi Smith
    HHHL Instructor

    The results produced by this curriculum are even impressing me! I’m watching horses and people transform quickly, with a lot less effort and a lot less confusion. The goal of each module is clear, and the lessons and exercises are simple yet powerful. As you become a better leader, a better rider and a better communicator, your horse becomes happier!

    – Linda Parelli

    The How to Talk Horse Curriculum
    Will Be the Best Investment You
    Have Ever Made With Your Horse

    The curriculum is currently ONLY available to Happy Horse Happy Life members and is included at the
    Instructor, Mastermind and Achiever Level Installments.

    How to Talk Horse is available to Happy Horse Happy Life Insider members at a $500 discount for a one-time payment of $499 which includes a free $50 gift certificate in our online store, or 12 payments of $49.99.

    You must be a member of Happy Horse Happy Life first in order to purchase How to Talk Horse – If you are not a member, simply sign up by clicking the buy now button below. The curriculum will be offered to non-members in early 2022 for $999.

    Please be aware that modules 1-5 are available at once. The remaining five modules will be released as the filming for each module is completed.