There’s a lot more to horses than looking good on their backs… even the Horsemanship Levels have unmounted objectives covering essential ground skills and riding theory, and rainy day lessons can help students progress to the next Level.
We think that Green Level Horsemanship is a pretty important stage in a new rider’s journey… and there are a few key concepts we hope they realize along the way.
Horse people may all have their own way of doing things, but our lifestyle and love of horses keeps us connected – and that’s something we are always thankful for.
Teaching guide for Green Level HorseSense unmounted lessons. Tips for teaching students how to take and evaluate equine vitals signs: temperature, pulse, and respiration (TPR).
Study guides help your students prepare for both mounted and unmounted lessons: when students come into lessons with in-depth understanding of the WHY it allows us to progress much more quickly to the HOW.
Equitation patterns, a long-time standby in English and Western flat classes, have become one of our favorite teaching tools for flatwork lessons.
Don’t be afraid to teach entire mounted lessons at the walk for fear of boring your students. Walk-only lessons are a seriously underrated tool that can save you income, keep your horses fit, and challenge riders at all levels.
Our perspective is that thirty days of focused No-stirrup November seat-building can be a really great thing… if you do it carefully with consideration for both horse and rider.
Sample set of lesson plans for teaching Teal Level Horsemanship – contains two free lessons.
Sample set of lesson plans for teaching Purple Level Horsemanship – contains two free lessons.
Sample set of lesson plans for teaching Orange Level Horsemanship – contains two free lessons.
Sample set of lesson plans for teaching Blue Level Horsemanship – contains two free lessons.
This Stuff Happens card set contains discussion scenarios to help your assistant trainers and barn staff anticipate and prevent the inevitable disasters, large and small, that occur with students and horses.
We teach our students to expect the unexpected, and try to prepare them for the inevitable moment where they’ll have to make a quick decision to get out of trouble.
Full-color printable certificate to reward students who participate in No-Stirrup November.
Handy little checklist list of the resource downloads we recommend to help you get started teaching Yellow Level – for both mounted Horsemanship lessons and and unmounted HorseSense lessons – using the Learning Levels Curriculum.
Use Red Level terms in a classic Pictionary game format – great way to teach and test equine terminology!
Use this teaching guide for unmounted lessons that teach Yellow Level HorseSense students to confidently identify factors that would cause them to seek veterinary assistance.
Help your beginner students track their progress in unmounted HorseSense lessons – and motivate them to do more – with this colorful tracking tool for the Learning Levels equine curriculum. Students can color in a new section of the horse drawing as they check off each objective for the Level, and see at a glance what they need to learn next.
Use this worksheet for unmounted lessons that help beginner students understand the importance of maintaining an equine feed chart.
It can be a place where students feel loved and supported at all stages of their education. It can be a place where lifelong friendships are formed. It can be a place where children and adults want to spend their time.
You want new students to stay, which means you want them to fall in love. Helping your horse become a lovable solid citizen is one of the greatest investments you can make in your lesson business.
One of our most important jobs as instructors is to give students the foundation that allows them to learn new skills successfully, without putting them at risk!
Handy little checklist list of the resource downloads we recommend to help you get started teaching Red Level – for both mounted Horsemanship lessons and and unmounted HorseSense lessons – using the Learning Levels Curriculum.
Our website will be offline on
Thursday, July 4,
starting at 10:00 AM (EDT),
for routine maintenance.
We’ll be shined up and
ready to ride by
July 5.
We’ve been blessed with many talented photographers over the years: students who voluntarily stood in sweltering/ freezing arenas, capturing lifelong memories of lessons, camps and shows. We’re grateful to all of them!
One former student, Delaney Witbrod, is now a professional photographer with a gift for animal portraits – see more of her fine work here. We’re also grateful for photos of Western riding donated by LLPro instructors – particularly Bit of Pleasure Horse School and Joyful Hearts Photography!
You’ll find illustrations throughout our online courses and printed materials graciously donated by our friend Rhonda Hagy. Evan Surrusco contributes additional illustrations and handles most of our photo processing. Contact us for information about their work.