Schooling help needed please.

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Hi. Could anyone suggest any exercises to help me to get my horsey to soften around my inside leg on the right rein. Having a few issues with this at the moment. Teeth, back and tack have all been checked and are ok. Think we are both having a mental block with it and would like to resolve before it really becomes an issue. Many thanks.
 
On a circle, think of yielding the shoulder out with the inside leg well forward at the girth and opening the hand to the right to bring right bend in but not having too much contact on the right rein. The left rein brings the horse around the turn.
It feels a bit alien at first and isnt an exercise I'd use long term but for getting your leg in the right place and showing you that the horse will happily bend to the right, you can then ride more of a true bend with a straight shoulder.
 
sidepass (horse walking sidepass) will do exactly this.

light one leg pressure reults in horse wrapping ribs around that leg, and then slightly more / rhythmical pressure will result in sidepass (actual sideways movetment)

Sidepass = foreq yield + hindq yield done together.

To teach foreq & hindq yield, I'd teach noth on the ground first (easy to do)

Then do both in saddle

Then ask for both together, first on ground then in saddle.

more info here on hindq & foreq yields & how to do them.

http://irishnhsociety.proboards41.com/index.cgi?board=usefulinformation

this stuff is hard to explain, BUT easy to show
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maybe there's a trainer near you who could pop out for a lesson and show you how to do it.
 
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