First Time on a Horse | Beyond the Saddle: Holistic Clicker Training Week 3

Our students in the Beyond the Saddle: Holistic Clicker Training Program are getting on a horse for the very first time.

Many came with zero horse experience. Others, just a touch—from our last Horse Healing Retreat. Now, in our third week, we begin the next phase of the journey: getting astride. Not through dominance, but through connection.

At Starr Horse Retreats, we follow a code of honoring. We always ask for permission before mounting, and we always offer our gratitude when we dismount. It’s a practice of mutual respect, attunement, and reverence for our horse partners who walk beside us—and sometimes carry us.

This is more than riding. This is remembering.

This is Beyond the Saddle.

First Time on a Horse