This video seeks to give you more information on how to be successful with low energy horses (and you will learn why Karen does not use the word 'lazy' to describe them). She will describe the different types of low energy horses, and then give you 3 questions that will help you through the menta...

Karen Rohlf continues her discussion about energy, She talks about how remembering to rest and release will help your horse to offer more. She contrasts this to a typical strategy that trainers use which is to 'keep them going'. This video is a continuation of the other two videos this month and ...

Karen Rohlf helps a student, Caroline, understand how to achieve 100% response to the request for energy. This horse is an upper level dressage horse who has also done natural horsemanship and somewhere along the way he lost his desire to go! This video clearly shows the theory and process of ach...

How to teach your horse to sustain the level of energy you want. Karen continues to teach Caroline and her horse, Woody. Now they learn the concepts and practice of sustaining energy in a way that the horse feels like he becomes a willing participant. This is an exercise you can easily recreate b...

Karen plays with a student's horse on line. This is a lovely horse, but his human was saying that his energy is 'stuck'. Power comes from having Energy with Relaxation, so Karen takes a good look at her ability to have those conversations with the horse, transitioning from one to the other, until...

Karen plays with a student's horse to demonstrate how to improve the conversations about Energy and Relaxation. These ingredients are necessary in order to begin to find the Sweet Spot. You will see how by just changing the horse's state of readiness and relaxation also changed his quality of gai...

Karen demonstrates and explains how she gets Teo to be more energetic online by focusing on the quality of the communication about Energy!

This video is for everyone who feels like their horse never quite matches their energy and they feel like they are nagging.

IIn this video Karen rides Solana to demonstrate the power of doing frequent transitions. Solana tends to be a bit sticky, with low responsiveness. This is an exercise that does not come naturally for her, so you will hear what Karen is thinking about to get a better result. Karen is using this e...

Karen coaches a student on a horse who wants to stop and get stuck. The rider is relatively new to natural horsemanship so Karen has the opportunity to explain some principles, as well as a strategy to start changing the horse's mind about going forward.

This is an excellent video on foundation ...

Karen explains how they are trying to improve a horse's throughness and the swinging of his back by improving his energy. The plan is to highlight his commitment to effort through simple patterns and transition. These are simple exercises for a common issue!
This video is excellent for anyone who...

Karen teaches a student to help her understand about finding the sweet spot of energy. Even without a lot of 'dressage' knowledge, you can improve your gaits using experimentation and observation.

Karen plays with Ovation at liberty with a focus of creating enthusiasm while using a jump gymnastic. Ovation is typically a low energy horse, so everything Karen does with him needs to inspire enthusiasm. He also does not have a naturally uphill canter, so she uses jumps to help develop those ab...

Glenn Stewart (http://thehorseranch.com) plays with Karen's filly, Natilla, to demonstrate how he builds responsiveness and a responsibility to put in effort. Natilla has energy when Karen rides her, and during play sessions, but she drags around during normal handling and leading. Karen asked Gl...

In this video Karen helps Walter to become more sensitized in his responses. We will show you where he started and and how Karen helps from the ground to have him become quicker to activate his energy. You will see a step by step progression over several sessions.

This is an excellent video for ...

Karen rides her horse, Natilla, to show you a favorite training strategy to build both responsiveness and calmness! It’s also a great exercise to do when it is too hot to do a lot of aerobic work. You will see how she plays with it to build greater and greater movement from Natilla, but you will ...

In this video, Karen plays with how to build positive energy and exuberance without losing overall relaxation. She will start by showing the low energy Solana starts with and how she starts to elicit more effort from Solana. Karen then lets Solana loose and encourages her to get exuberant before ...

In this video Karen plays with a student's horse, Walter, on line to effect his State Of Mind. She effects his state of mind by being particular about simple responses and expecting full mental engagement. You will see that by focusing on this, the horse changes his posture!
This is an excellent ...

This video introduces Karen's new horse, Hot Shot. He is coming 7 and came to Karen because he had a chronic lameness for 2 years. Through a combination of hoof trimming, lifestyle changing, and most importantly, the magic of the finding the sweet spot exercises, Hot Shot quickly became sound! Th...

Karen demonstrates how to ask your horse for more energy and effort in the walk. Horses often break gait into the trot and Karen will show you how to handle that. What Karen teaches here can also be applied when you ask your horse for more energy at the trot. In this video Karen is riding Hot Sho...