What kind of a relationship are you seeking with your horse?

Are you looking for qualities of trust, respect, balance, softness, flexibility, free forward movement, relaxation, and a willingness from the horse that keeps you safer while enhancing the horse’s performance? Clay Wright Horsemanship Schools and classes offered at the CC Ranch were designed by Clay and Carolyn Wright to inform and educate people in the fundamental skills and abilities to accomplish these qualities in their working relationships with horses.

Regardless of the riding discipline you have chosen, the basis of that discipline should consist of solid foundation principles that allow you and the horse to grow together in a fashion that is best suited for both of you. Good horsemanship practices should not only take into account the end goals for the person, they also need to consider what the person needs to further develop in their understanding, skill level, and abilities, as well as what the horse needs to develop physically, mentally, and emotionally. When all of these things are considered, the horse can offer the person what they want as an end result.

Over many years of studying and teaching what is commonly referred to as Natural Horsemanship and Classical Dressage, Clay’s Horsemanship Schools and classes offered at the CC Ranch offer people the ability to learn and use the universal and practical aspects of what many people consider to be “different” riding disciplines with more understanding and better results. The results Clay obtains are based on quality principles not a discipline or method in and of itself. By unifying the principles of correct balance and movement from the Classical Dressage training with the contentment of the Natural Horsemanship training, you integrate balance with contentment, which enables people to offer the horse an education through suppleness, balance, relaxation, and a peaceful environment to learn in. And with a special emphasis on developing the human’s sense of feel, we help people develop the understanding of how to reach the horse on the levels of thought, emotion, and spirit. This understanding put into action is the key to permanently solving problems while keeping both horse and rider in a safer environment, and bringing maximum performance to the surface.

Learn how you can develop your sense of feel and refine your horsemanship skills in such a way that what is left is the ability to communicate with the horse through sensing and feel.

This is expressed in the movements of a man and a horse dancing together as one, in harmony and unity—one mind, one movement, and one body. When you know how to inspire your horse through feel rather than make him do things, you have the opportunity to shift your communication to a clearer more meaningful level for the horse. This can change the way your horse thinks, moves, and behaves. Changing the horse’s thoughts, emotions, and behaviors is a natural result of using and refining your feel. Learning to sense and feel is what we believe Natural Horsemanship is all about. Natural Horsemanship is understanding the nature of the horse, the nature of the human, and the ultimate causes and underlying nature of things—or the nature of the universe—to which we look in order to understand that which can guide us to an enhancement of the horse/man relationship.

Attend a Clay Wright Horsemanship School and you’ll learn:

• The foundation maneuvers that are fundamental to performing beautiful advanced maneuvers and overcoming problems for any discipline—Western, Dressage, etc.
  
  
• How to improve your horse’s balance, collection, and impulsion.
  
  
• How to create the conditions to have a calm, responsive, and willing horse which makes it possible for the horse to fulfill the goals you have in mind.
  
  
• Techniques to overcome personal feelings of fear or inadequacies that may be standing in your way.
  
  
• How to go beyond the just the mechanics of horsemanship and make the “whole” connection—mind, body, emotions and spirit.