Train Your Own Horse with Stacy Westfall
Stacy Westfall teaches people how to understand, enjoy and successfully train their own horses. In her podcast, she shares all of her knowledge in her area of expertise: horses. She offers insights into issues that riders face in their own minds as well as the way they are viewing the challenges and goals they have with horses. She shares tips on becoming a better rider as well as a better leader for your horse.
Discover how you can understand things from your horses point of view so that you can enjoy the learning process with your horse. When you are able to understand what your horse is experiencing mentally and physically the process of learning new things becomes more enjoyable.
Your goals may be showing, trail riding or simply enjoying life with horses-all of which Stacy enjoys herself.
She shares her own struggles and successes to allow listeners to understand that everyone experiences ups and downs.
Through her podcast, website, YouTube channel and social media Stacy answers questions about: Fear, when to sell a horse, goal setting, safety, ground work, trailer loading, lead changes, reining, spins, stops, western dressage, ranch riding, when to get help, lessons, clinics and improving your safety, success and enjoyment of horses.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 29 minutes
- Episodes
- 356
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Teaching horses to give to pressure, ground tie & stand quietly
Episode 76: Today I’m answering three questions that I think are all related. One is about a horse that pops his head up when he steps on the lead rope, another is about ground tying and the final on…
Ranch Riding Troubles and Electric Fence Issues
Episode 75: Q&A: Ranch riding, ranch trail…the horror! How to better prepare for the transition from home to show. Preparing a horse for rider nerves. Practice the pattern or don’t practice the patt…
Handling stress when you can’t ride your horse.
Empowering riders, respecting space, finding balance between go & whoa aids
Ep 73: Listen as a caller describes how she changed her lunging experience in a matter of days. Stacy outlines the steps that made this 'leap' in learning possible. Hazel calls in and asks how to get…
Why lunging horses? Benefits and warnings.
Put yourself in the role of the horse
Ep 71: How are you doing? Before you answer that question, I'd like you to pretend that you are a horse. What's the first image that comes to mind? An Arabian? A racehorse? An overworked driving hors…
Using More Leg on Hot Horses
Episode 70: Question: After warming up and we're beginning to work, I have a really hard time keeping his gait consistent, usually start out slow and easy. But as we continue on, he has a tendency to…
Training Horses for Others vs Training Your Own.
How to Teach a Horse to Spook
Episode 68: How to teach your horse to spook, in three easy steps! 1) start with a horse with lack of experience or holes in the training 2) try not rock the boat… 3) when the horse has doubts, redu…
Teaching horses tricks...or problems?
Episode 67: Can training horses to do tricks like rearing, bowing or lying down cause problems? I answer this question by using examples of six different horses to illustrate my answer...which is som…
Q&A: 5 tips for trail riding young horses & goals during pregnancy
Episode 66: Today I answer two listener questions. Question #1- "My question for you is how you can tell when your horse is ready to go on its first trail ride. What kind of skills do you like to hav…
The Tipping Point in Horse Training.
Improving Steering & Teaching Neck Reining, Once in a Lifetime Horses
Equine Career Q&A, Full Confession and Self Awareness
Good horse training is boring...
Episode 62: This week's podcast continues explaining the levels of training that horses go through. I describe the middle part of horse training as boring… Picture a bell curve. The beginning of the …
Why would I look forward to my horse spooking?
5 Tips for Motivated Riding
Experiencing A ‘Bad’ Riding Lesson
Episode 59: Stacy and Ginny discuss the power of using curiosity to overcome challenges.
Stacy tells about here experience with a 'bad' riding lesson.
Ginny discusses getting bucked off a horse she …
Christmas Morning in the Barn
Episode 58: Welcome to the Christmas edition of the podcast, because this episode releases on Christmas Day this year, I thought I would share one of my favorite Christmas memories with you.
Or maybe…
Ride with Faith...and Training
Episode 57: Stacy explains that she has been pondering the answer she gave to a listener last week and she has more to add this week. She discusses the role of faith in horse training as well as mist…