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#FDNHPodcast is an in depth discussion with equestrian trainers and professionals dedicated to making horse training happen for the horse not to the horse. We discuss how to reduce harm in our horses training environment and how to support our horses mental, emotional and physical well being so that we have horses that enjoy learning and ask to be ridden. Each episode we discuss the different influences equestrians can have and how we can improve our horses overall athleticism, soundness of mind and body and emotional fortitude whilst strengthening and deepening our relationship.

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United States

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#FDNHPodcast is an in depth discussion with equestrian trainers and professionals dedicated to making horse training happen for the horse not to the horse. We discuss how to reduce harm in our horses training environment and how to support our horses mental, emotional and physical well being so that we have horses that enjoy learning and ask to be ridden. Each episode we discuss the different influences equestrians can have and how we can improve our horses overall athleticism, soundness of mind and body and emotional fortitude whilst strengthening and deepening our relationship.

Language:

English


Episodes
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Veterinary holistic sports medicine with Dr Rachel Bellini ep 3

12/24/2025
Join us for the last of 3 episodes with Dr Rachel Bellini. Dr Rachel Bellini has spent her professonial life deep diving to understand your horse dreams and your struggle to get there. Despite having all the skills, training and resources, Dr. Rachel Bellini, an experienced veterinarian, chiropractor and horse owner, knew there had to be a way to break out of the vicious cycle. Over decades of hard work and testing, she’s been pioneering the field of holistic sports medicine, combining traditional veterinary medicine with alternative treatments to get at the root of seemingly impossible issues and put horses on a path to healing Want to work with Rachel further? Follow along with the video trainings on socials: Instagram: ⁠Heart Equine Veterinary⁠ Facebook: ⁠Heart Equine⁠ The website here: ⁠Heart Equine⁠ Check out her online consults here: ⁠Zoom online consult⁠ ⁠Online soundness assessment⁠ Ready to start your journey as a holistic equestrian? Check out our free webinar: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Say yes to a happy willing horse⁠⁠

Duration:00:35:08

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Veterinary holistic sports medicine with Dr Rachel Bellini ep2

12/10/2025
Join us for the last of 3 episodes with Dr Rachel Bellini. Dr Rachel Bellini has spent her professonial life deep diving to understand your horse dreams and your struggle to get there. Despite having all the skills, training and resources, Dr. Rachel Bellini, an experienced veterinarian, chiropractor and horse owner, knew there had to be a way to break out of the vicious cycle. Over decades of hard work and testing, she’s been pioneering the field of holistic sports medicine, combining traditional veterinary medicine with alternative treatments to get at the root of seemingly impossible issues and put horses on a path to healing Want to work with Rachel further? Follow along with the video trainings on socials: Instagram: ⁠Heart Equine Veterinary⁠ Facebook: ⁠Heart Equine⁠ The website here: ⁠Heart Equine⁠ Check out her online consults here: ⁠Zoom online consult⁠ ⁠Online soundness assessment⁠ Ready to start your journey as a holistic equestrian? Check out our free webinar: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Say yes to a happy willing horse⁠⁠

Duration:00:42:44

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Veterinary holistic sports medicine with Dr Rachel Bellini ep 1

11/26/2025
Join us for the last of 3 episodes with Dr Rachel Bellini. Dr Rachel Bellini has spent her professonial life deep diving to understand your horse dreams and your struggle to get there. Despite having all the skills, training and resources, Dr. Rachel Bellini, an experienced veterinarian, chiropractor and horse owner, knew there had to be a way to break out of the vicious cycle. Over decades of hard work and testing, she’s been pioneering the field of holistic sports medicine, combining traditional veterinary medicine with alternative treatments to get at the root of seemingly impossible issues and put horses on a path to healing Want to work with Rachel further? Follow along with the video trainings on socials: Instagram: Heart Equine Veterinary Facebook: Heart Equine The website here: Heart Equine Check out her online consults here: Zoom online consult Online soundness assessment Ready to start your journey as a holistic equestrian? Check out our free webinar: ⁠⁠⁠Say yes to a happy willing horse⁠

Duration:00:39:26

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Attack of the bubble machine

11/12/2025
Happy halloween! Enjoy 60% off ⁠confidence through curiosity⁠ with the code CONFIDENTHORSE Check out our confidence through curiosity course in action on ⁠tik tok⁠ and ⁠instagram⁠ Ready to take the first steps towards being a holistic equestrian? Check out our free masterclass: ⁠Say yes to a happy, willing horse

Duration:00:26:31

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What we do instead of desensitisation

10/29/2025
Happy halloween! Enjoy 60% off confidence through curiosity with the code CONFIDENTHORSE Check out our confidence through curiosity course in action on tik tok and instagram Ready to take the first steps towards being a holistic equestrian? Check out our free masterclass: Say yes to a happy, willing horse

Duration:00:20:30

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Horse dissection and the effects of training in soundness with Becks Nairn

10/15/2025
Join us on todays episode as we discuss Becks career and how it has led her to what she does today with her dissection work. Over the course of these podcasts Becks shares how her riding difficult horses started out as behavioural training as it does for most of us. Within time Becks curiousity about the underlying pathology grew and she started to apply her knowledge as a taxidermist to the dissection of euthanised horses. Marrying the discoveries Becks found in the horses bodies to their stories Becks now advocates for how we can work with horses more sustainably. Check out Becks work over on her facebook page: ⁠⁠Becks Nairn (classical dressage NZ)⁠⁠ Her patreon: ⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/Becks_nairn⁠⁠ And her website: ⁠⁠https://www.becksnairn.com/⁠⁠

Duration:00:36:51

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Horse dissections and sustainable training with Becks Nairn ep 2

10/1/2025
Join us on todays episode as we discuss Becks career and how it has led her to what she does today with her dissection work. Over the course of these podcasts Becks shares how her riding difficult horses started out as behavioural training as it does for most of us. Within time Becks curiousity about the underlying pathology grew and she started to apply her knowledge as a taxidermist to the dissection of euthanised horses. Marrying the discoveries Becks found in the horses bodies to their stories Becks now advocates for how we can work with horses more sustainably. Check out Becks work over on her facebook page: ⁠Becks Nairn (classical dressage NZ)⁠ Her patreon: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/Becks_nairn⁠ And her website: ⁠https://www.becksnairn.com/⁠

Duration:00:24:31

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Horse dissection and the effects of their work on their body with Becks Nairn

9/17/2025
Join us on todays episode as we discuss Becks career and how it has led her to what she does today with her dissection work. Over the course of these podcasts Becks shares how her riding difficult horses started out as behavioural training as it does for most of us. Within time Becks curiousity about the underlying pathology grew and she started to apply her knowledge as a taxidermist to the dissection of euthanised horses. Marrying the discoveries Becks found in the horses bodies to their stories Becks now advocates for how we can work with horses more sustainably. Check out Becks work over on her facebook page: Becks Nairn (classical dressage NZ) Her patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Becks_nairn And her website: https://www.becksnairn.com/

Duration:00:40:54

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What the heck is a half halt!?!

9/3/2025
Join us in this episode where I share the challenges I have had in my riding career with understanding what a half halt is and how I now teach it to different levels of riders within the riding school. Hopefully you will be able to take away something away from this conversation that will help offer clarity to your understanding of half halts Ready to start your journey as a holistic equestrian? Sign up to our free webinar ⁠⁠"say yes to a happy willing horse"⁠⁠ Ready to jump start into the work? Check out our groundwork program . ⁠⁠Holistic horse handling⁠⁠ Or get the ridden and groundwork program: ⁠⁠Holistic horse rider⁠

Duration:00:34:28

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How do you ride for soundness? Part 2

8/20/2025
Join us in this episode where I share the focus of our riding school lessons for soundness first and ribbons second. My goal with our horses is to have horses that enjoy learning and movement feels good. Creating a riding school environment where this is possible has been my obsession for the last 5 years as we have shared that journey with you and the lessons learned from valuable leaders in the industry pioneering this lens of working with horses. In this episode we share the next developmental steps of impulsion and straightness where our horses really start to develop their athletic potential Ready to start your journey as a holistic equestrian? Sign up to our free webinar ⁠"say yes to a happy willing horse"⁠ Ready to jump start into the work? Check out our groundwork program . ⁠Holistic horse handling⁠ Or get the ridden and groundwork program: ⁠Holistic horse rider

Duration:00:32:29

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How do you ride your horse for soundness? part 1

8/6/2025
Join us in this episode where I share the focus of our riding school lessons for soundness first and ribbons second. My goal with our horses is to have horses that enjoy learning and movement feels good. Creating a riding school environment where this is possible has been my obsession for the last 5 years as we have shared that journey with you and the lessons learned from valuable leaders in the industry pioneering this lens of working with horses. In this episode we share the foundations of where we start our riders on this journey and next episode we will dig into the more advanced concepts. Ready to start your journey as a holistic equestrian? Sign up to our free webinar "say yes to a happy willing horse" Ready to jump start into the work? Check out our groundwork program . Holistic horse handling Or get the ridden and groundwork program: Holistic horse rider

Duration:00:35:52

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What is connection training?

7/23/2025
Join us in this episode as we dig into how we teach connection within our riding school. The soft skills are just as important as the practical and mechanical skills. Establishing congruence in training and a yes together requires understanding of what a no, not ready and not yet look like. It requires skills outside of escalation of pressure and power over when negotiating participation in an activity. If you're ready to start your journey as a holistic equestrian, check out our free webinar, "say yes to a happy, willing horse".

Duration:00:43:53

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To lunge or not to lunge

7/9/2025
In this episode we go over my history of learning how to lunge and when and why I will or will not use it now. Ready to start your journey as a holistic equestrian? Join our free webinar: "say yes to a happy willing horse"

Duration:00:26:55

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Make room for magic

6/25/2025
There seems to be a great divide in equine industry where one side things that connection work is hippy dippy rubbish that has handlers that are too soft creating confused horses that aren't able to function in society and the other side that has experienced effective use of connection training where the horses are safer, more reliable and able to consent work even though hard things are being asked on them. And we are on the side of equestrian history where connection is horse training is not only achievable but also so much more rewarding. Because if we wanted to work with horses mechanically, we would get motor bikes. Ready to start your journey as a holistic equestrian? Join our free webinar, "say yes to a happy, willing horse"

Duration:00:31:50

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equine brain training with Dr Dana Rindermann episode 3

6/11/2025
Join us for the last of 3 episodes with Dr Dana Rindermann. Together with her mares and her trainees they are totally into equine brain training.Dana loves cognitive training, scentwork and all kinds of discrimination tasks. Let's deep dive into concept learning and innovative horse training such as fetching and ⁠⁠cooperative care training⁠⁠. Dana does equine scentwork, mainly tracking and searching for objects.Dana is a vet and founder of ⁠⁠@okapi_training⁠⁠, a professional R+ horse trainer, book author of "Mach mich stark", AAT alumna and R+Expert and a total behaviour geek devoted to ⁠⁠clicker training⁠⁠ and PORTL. Want to work with Dana further? Follow along with the video trainings on socials: Instagram: ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/equine_brain_training/⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/okapi_training/⁠⁠ Facebook: ⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/Okapitraining⁠⁠ Check out the book (its in German) here: ⁠⁠⁠Mach Mich Stark⁠⁠⁠ The website here: ⁠⁠https://www.okapi-training.de/⁠⁠ Ready to start your journey as a holistic equestrian? Check out our free webinar: ⁠⁠Say yes to a happy willing horse⁠

Duration:00:31:25

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Equine brain training with Dr Dana Rindermann episode 2

5/28/2025
Join us for the second of 3 episodes with Dr Dana Rindermann. Together with her mares and her trainees they are totally into equine brain training.Dana loves cognitive training, scentwork and all kinds of discrimination tasks. Let's deep dive into concept learning and innovative horse training such as fetching and ⁠cooperative care training⁠. Dana does equine scentwork, mainly tracking and searching for objects.Dana is a vet and founder of ⁠@okapi_training⁠, a professional R+ horse trainer, book author of "Mach mich stark", AAT alumna and R+Expert and a total behaviour geek devoted to ⁠clicker training⁠ and PORTL. Want to work with Dana further? Follow along with the video trainings on socials: Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/equine_brain_training/⁠ ⁠https://www.instagram.com/okapi_training/⁠ Facebook: ⁠https://www.facebook.com/Okapitraining⁠ Check out the book (its in German) here: ⁠⁠Mach Mich Stark⁠⁠ The website here: ⁠https://www.okapi-training.de/⁠ Ready to start your journey as a holistic equestrian? Check out our free webinar: ⁠Say yes to a happy willing horse

Duration:00:31:27

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Equine brain training with Dr Dana Rindermann episode 1

5/14/2025
Join us for the first of 3 episodes with Dr Dana Rindermann. Together with her mares and her trainees they are totally into equine brain training. Dana loves cognitive training, scentwork and all kinds of discrimination tasks. Let's deep dive into concept learning and innovative horse training such as fetching and cooperative care training. Dana does equine scentwork, mainly tracking and searching for objects. Dana is a vet and founder of @okapi_training, a professional R+ horse trainer, book author of "Mach mich stark", AAT alumna and R+Expert and a total behaviour geek devoted to clicker training and PORTL. Want to work with Dana further? Follow along with the video trainings on socials: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/equine_brain_training/ https://www.instagram.com/okapi_training/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Okapitraining Check out the book (its in German) here: ⁠Mach Mich Stark⁠ The website here: https://www.okapi-training.de/ Ready to start your journey as a holistic equestrian? Check out our free webinar: Say yes to a happy willing horse

Duration:00:35:57

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How horses behaviours are affected by their eyesight part 2 with Andrew McLean

4/30/2025
Join us in this episode with Dr Andrew McLean from Equitation Science International as he shares with us some insight into what horses can and can't see and how it affects their behaviour. Andrew shares all sorts of valuable information about their colour spectrum, range of vision and transitions from light to dark environments. Jump over to Equitation Science International to see all of the valuable learning resources Andrew has put together. ⁠https://esi-education.com/shop/⁠ Interested in a horse training qualification? Check out the diploma of equitation science ⁠https://esi-education.com/courses/diploma/⁠ Ready to start your journey as a holistic equestrian? Check out our free webinar ⁠https://www.equestrianmovement.com/sayyes⁠

Duration:00:29:34

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Does my horse have hindgut ulcers with Kerri Hyland

4/2/2025
Join us in this episode as Kerri digs into hind gut ulcers in horses: signs, symptoms, treatment and management. Kerri shares a complementary way to work with horses with ulcers in coordination with vet treatments. To work with Kerri, pop over to her website and shoot through and enquiry ⁠https://www.vibrantanimalhealth.com.au/book-a-session⁠ Or follow Kerri's work on facebook ⁠https://www.facebook.com/vibrantanimalhealth/⁠ Or instagram ⁠https://www.instagram.com/vibrantlykerrie/⁠ Ready to start your journey as a holistic equestrian? Join our free webinar ⁠https://www.equestrianmovement.com/sayyes⁠

Duration:00:26:37

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What horses can and can't see and how it affects their behaviour with Andrew McLean

4/2/2025
Join us in this episode with Dr Andrew McLean from Equitation Science International as he shares with us some insight into what horses can and can't see and how it affects their behaviour. Andrew shares all sorts of valuable information about their colour spectrum, range of vision and transitions from light to dark environments. Jump over to Equitation Science International to see all of the valuable learning resources Andrew has put together. https://esi-education.com/shop/ Interested in a horse training qualification? Check out the diploma of equitation science https://esi-education.com/courses/diploma/ Ready to start your journey as a holistic equestrian? Check out our free webinar https://www.equestrianmovement.com/sayyes

Duration:00:31:36