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Click Here to Order Learn More The DVDs in this Lesson series are divided into six units. As you scroll down you will see a list of all 17 of the DVD titles in this series. Below that will be a detailed description of each of the DVDs. Unit One: The Click That Teaches Foundation Lessons - An Introduction to Clicker Training Lesson One: Getting Started with the Clicker Lesson Two: Ground Manners Lesson Three: Head Lowering: Your Calm-Down Cue Lesson Four: Stimulus Control: Putting Behavior on Cue I recommend that you begin with these foundation lessons before moving on to the second set of DVDs. Scroll down this page to learn more about these DVDs. Unit Two: The DVDs focus on the underlying balance that is created via lateral flexions. These lessons help maintain long-term soundness and lead to riding excellence. They are designed to accompany the major lessons and concepts covered in "The Click That Teaches: Riding with the Clicker". Not all of the lessons will be looking directly at riding. Some of the lessons will be focused on ground work exercises, but they will be covering concepts which are key to understanding the ridden work. Lesson 5: The "Why Would You Leave Me?" Game Lesson 6: Shaping on the Point of Contact Lesson 7: "T'ai Chi" Rope Handling Exercises Lesson 8: Three-Flip-Three: Understanding Lateral Flexions Unit Three: People frequently email me with questions about which DVDs they should order. I generally recommend that you watch the DVDs in the order in which they were produced. This is a lesson series. Each DVD intorduces new material. The new lessons are based on work that was covered in an earlier DVD. You will understand the progression of the work much better if you watch the lessons in order. However, having said that, there are lessons which can easily be watched out of sequence. These next two DVDs fall into that category. Lesson 9: Overcoming Fear and the Power of Cues Lesson 10: Microshaping: Learning to See the Smallest Try Unit Four: These next three DVDs introduce the single-rein/riding on a triangle technique which is described in detail in the riding book. Lesson 11: Capture the Saddle: The Mounting Block Lesson Lesson 12: Riding on a triangle: From Capture the Saddle to Three-Flip-Three Lesson 13: Helen House Horse: The Mechanics of Single-Rein Riding Unit Five: These next two DVDs can be watched at any point in this series. Even if you are not yet currently clicker training your horse, you will find them of great interest. Lesson 14: The Poisoned Cue Lesson 15: Microriding Unit Six: These two new DVDs continue the work begun in the Unit Four DVDs Lesson 16 : Whoa! Stop! Finding Your Horse's Brakes Lesson 17: Hip-Shoulder-Shoulder: Your Power Tool for Performance Excellence ********************************************************************************** If you would like to be notified of new releases, please email me at kurlanda@crisny.org and ask to be placed on my mailing list. Not sure what you should order? Click here for some suggestions. Or Scroll down to learn more about each DVD lesson. *********************************************************************************** An Introduction to Clicker Training
Learn how to: get started with the clicker; solve problems; work with foals; teach basic good manners;ride with the clicker; turn your horse into a performance Star! $19.95 Three Hour DVD
Lesson One: Getting Started with the Clicker
Lesson One focuses on clicker training basics: Introducing your horse to the clicker and the key foundation lessons that create safe, polite horses. $39.95 Three Hour DVD Comes with a free clicker Add to Shopping Cart Learn More
Lesson Two: Ground Manners
Topics covered: $29.95 Two hour DVD
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Lesson Three: Head Lowering: Your Calm Down Cue
When I started “The Click That Teaches” video lesson series, $29.95 Two Hour DVD Learn More Add to Shopping Cart
Lesson 4: Stimulus Control: Putting Behavior on Cue
Stimulus control stabilizes behavior and creates good manners. Cues act like green lights. They tell the horse which behavior will earn him reinforcement at this particular moment. When a behavior is fully on cue, you are saying to your horse that you want the behavior when you ask for it and ONLY when you ask for it. Learn More Add to Shopping Cart
Lesson 5: The "Why Would You Leave Me?" Game
The “Why would you leave me?” Game is one of the key lessons featured in “The Click That Teaches: Riding with the Clicker.” Essentially this lesson teaches teaches your horse loose leash leading. It begins by teaching your horse to walk with you on a slack lead - no pulling, forging ahead, or lagging behind. Perfected the lesson takes you straight to lateral work and beautiful liberty training.
This video is intended to accompany the book, “The Click That Teaches: Riding with the Clicker”. $29.95 One Hour Video
Lesson 6: Shaping on a Point of Contact (Produced Dec. 2006)
Physical balance has many benefits for your horse. He'll stay sounder longer. he'll have smoother, more beautiful gaits. And he'll be more focused and emotionally settled. How do you bring a horse into physical balance? By shaping on a point of contact so your horse becomes internally body aware and learns how to adjust his own balance. find out what that means and learn the skills to help your own horse achieve physical and emotional balance in this two hour DVD lesson. $29.95 Two hour/twenty minutes DVD
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Lesson 7: T'ai Chi Rope Handling Exercises (Produced Jan. 2007)
Do you know what your lead feels like to your horse? Can he trust your hand? Or are you inadvertently poisoning the clicker training experience with too much force? These t'ai chi" rope handling exercises will improve your balance, help you develop a more secure riding position, and give you a better understanding of the lead rope as a communication tool. $29.95 One Hour/forty miuntes DVD Add to Shopping Cart Learn More
Lesson 8: Three-Flip-Three: Understanding Lateral Flexions (Produced March 2007)
If you can count to three, you can teach your horse lateral work. When you follow the step by step lessons presented in this lesson series, that's how easy it is to teach your horse lateral work. Lateral work helps to steady your horse emotionally; it creates soft, rideable gaits; and it helps to maintain your horse's soundness. Find out how to teach your horse lateral flexions using the Three-Flip-Three counted exercise in this two hour DVD presented by Alexandra Kurland. $29.95 Two Hour DVD Add to Shopping Cart Learn More
Lesson 9: Overcoming Fear and the Power of Cues (Produced Dec. 2007)
Muska is a young Icelandic who developed a fear of saddles after a riding accident. Follow her lesson as we use the power of cues to remove her fear of saddles. This two hour DVD shows you how to overcome a fear issue using head lowering; highlights the importance of mechanical skills; shows you how to build duration into your head lowering behavior; teaches you how to combine advance and retreat techniques with the clicker; how to read your horse's body language; and how to recognize and use the cues that evolve during the shaping process. If you have been struggling a bit to make clicker training work for you and your horse, this DVD may provide you with many answers. You'll see common mistakes people make that can confuse, or frustrate a horse during the learning process. Little details can make a huge difference as you'll see in this two hour DVD lesson presented by Alexandra Kurland
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Lesson 10: Microshaping: Learning to See The Smallest Try (Produced Jan. 2008)
Learn how to see small details in movement and how to put those tiny shifts in balance to work for you to: * calm herd-bound horses * manage separation anxiety * create beautiful gaits * maintain long term soundness Microshaping is "Equine Pilates" - Shaping for a Sound Spine. Learn what that means in this two hour lesson presented by Alexandra Kurland. $29.95 Two Hour DVD Add to Shopping Cart Learn More
Lesson 11: Capture the Saddle: The Mounting Block Lesson
(Produced May. 2008)
Capture the saddle: The mounting Block Lesson teaches great mounting block manners, plus it sets the stage for single-rein riding. The DVD is divided into two parts. The first half focuses on the mounting block lesson. Once I got the rider up, I couldn't just leave them there, waiting for the next DVD to come out, so the second half looks at a very basic single-rein riding exercise. You'll see the beginning steps that teach you how to ride on a triangle of the reins.
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(Produced Sept.. 2008)
Learn how to: * Use cues as problem solving tools. * Get a stuck horse to move. * Develop the beginnings of lateral work * Create a great riding relationship with your horse.
The longer we stay with an exercise the more good things we see it can give us. Does your horse dance around at the mounting block? Does he sidle away as soon as you put your foot in the stirrup? This lesson shows you how to use the power of cues to interrupt this pattern. And once you're on, it shows you how to use the single-rein riding to get a stuck horse in motion. And once the feet are moving, how to use a basic cone circle exercise to create the beginnings of lateral work.
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Lesson 13: Helen House Horse: The Mechanics of Single-Rein Riding
(Produced Sept. 2008)
Learn how to: * Ride from your core. * Develop a Secure Seat. * Establish a Soft Feel. * Connect to the Hips. * Become an Effective Rider. Little Details Make a Huge Difference! Learn how to ride from your core by first practicing your rein mechanics without your horse. Little details can make a huge difference to the security of your seat, and the feel down your reins. In this lesson you'll put the "t'ai chi wall" to work for you under saddle. You'll learn how to ride on a triangle of the reins to create soft, effective communication down the reins.
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Lesson 14: The Poisoned Cue Presented by Dr. Jesús Rosales-Ruiz (Produced March. 2009)
Poisoned Cues: * What are they? * What effect do they have on behavior? * What long-term problems do they create? * Can you retrain a poisoned Cue? This much anticipated presentation is an expanded version of the lecture Dr. Jesús Rosales-Ruiz has presented at the Clicker Expo. In conversation with Alexandra Kurland the poisoned cue is discussed both in general terms and then specifically as it applies to horse training. $39.95 Two DVD set, Total running time approx 2 hours 40 min. **********************************************************************************
Lesson 15: Microriding: Creating Thinking Ridiers for our Thinking Horses (Produced March. 2009)
In the Microshaping DVD you learned how to be a better visual observer. Now in the Microriding lesson you'll learn how to be a better kinesthetic observer. We'll explore the three circuits that create a grounded, connected, body-aware, energized rider. The Three Microriding Circuits: * The Grounding Circuit * The Crown Circuit * The Diaphragm Circuit
Learn what these circuits are and how they can be used in riding in this two DVD, four hour lesson. $34.95 Two DVD set, Total running time approx 4 hours ********************************************************************************** New!! First released February 2010
New!! First released February 2010
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This DVD includes the original two hour video lesson: "Getting Started with the Clicker” plus a one hour bonus video; “The Six Foundation Lessons of Clicker Training.”
Come have a private lesson with Alexandra Kurland in this two hour introduction to lunging and lateral work. 
