A moment of AH HAAA!

Old habits are hard to break! I have gotten into this nasty one of "holding" Warren with my legs instead of giving him a release. While I was indeed very inspired after the clinic, I fell back into frustration as I couldn't seem to make all my cues happen all at the right time. . So I had a few lessons with Christy the past few weeks for more guidance and wow, we are back on track now! We got him moving his shoulders over at the canter and then moving around 10 meter circles with a change of direction in the middle. I really figured out how to stretch down on my outside leg to bring him around those little circles! After some work in the circles, I sent him around the arena and got the most beautiful, light, round, effortless, trot I have ever had from Warren. It was amazing and extremely inspirational. We got him to sit back on his hind quarters and I figured out how to leave him alone so he could get in a nice forward frame! It was a major AH-HAA! moment for us and now we know what we are working towards!