May 16, 2014 The most important “gait” is halt. Any time you need to ask your horse to stand (lay) still and wait for the next instruction, he/she should do so.

Allen has taught me so much about horsemanship – Perla in the background is not dead – she is just relaxed even with us humans around and the other Icelandic lays still while Allen sits on her – Allwn’s quiet consistent style of always communicating with the horses creates some very polite animals to be around!

He showed me how to approach Perla and sit upon her – I did

Then i asked her to stand up – and stand by me – She did as I ask – but of course she had to yawn several time – got me to yawning – so we stood side by side yawning!!!

Today ,again, we had snow showers – but not enough to make a snow man!