Pete Rodda came up with this title to describe the effect of his systematic approach to working with horses. Pete utilizes his background studying a variety of "Natural Horsemanship " techniques and layering in the body awareness he has learned to observe through Dressage training he has both participated in and observed over the 4 year period we have been working together.
In a nutshell, Complementary Horsemanship helps any horse, from any discipline, find a more clear and secure relationship with their human handler. Even more remarkable is that horses going through this process develop a much greater sense of confidence and relaxation within themselves. To date I can only verify this through personal experience, observation and anecdotal evidence. It is my hope to move this from observation to proof, through scientific evidence, that shows a verifiable chemical change in the horse's biochemistry. But even without that, the evidence keeps mounting that this approach enables horses to obtain such significant progress in their training, and such significant improvements in their ability to relax and process what is going on around them, that if the science can not be established I will continue to share the method, because in 35 continuous years of training horses, I have never encountered such an effective method of enabling a horse to relax.
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