Alexandra Kurland Books and DVDs

Author: Alexandra Kurland

Packed with over 600 photos, this comprehensive training guide will take you from clicker basics to advanced training for your horse.

As part of the 'The Click That Teaches' series, in this book, Author Alexandra Kurland gives you a training manual for the life of your horse.

From clicker basics and getting started under saddle, to solving training problems and creating a safe fun horse to ride, to developing spectacular performance that promotes good health..

Clicker training brings out the best in your horse!

Introduction To Clicker Training DVD Alexandra Kurland, is a one hour DVD, and a superb introduction to clicker training for horses. Learn how to introduce the clicker to your horse, and more!

DVD Lesson 1: Getting Started With The Clicker, created by Alexandra Kurland, includes the original "Getting Started with the Clicker” lesson plus a bonus video; “The Six Foundation Lessons of Clicker Training”. Lesson One focuses on clicker training basics. Total running time: 3 hours.

In The Click That Teaches DVD Lesson 2: Ground Manners, Alexandra Kurland shows you how to solve many common ground problems, and in the process you’ll be laying the foundation for upper-level performance work.

Approx 2 hours.

When Alexandra Kurland first started The Click That Teaches DVD series, Head Lowering: Your Calm Down Cue was the lesson she most wanted to create. More than just calming a horse down, it helps put an end to unwanted behavior, develops emotional control and stabilizes good behavior. A key foundation lesson for advanced training.

Approx 2 hours.

When a behavior is fully on cue, you are saying to your horse that you want the behavior when you ask for it and ONLY when you ask for it. Lesson 4: Stimulus Control - Putting Behaviour On Cue will show you how to teach cues, and how to use them to create a mannerly, focused, happy horse.

Approx 2 hours.

DVD Lesson 5: Why Would You Leave Me Game by Alexandra Kurland is a key lesson in her "Riding with the Clicker” book. It begins by teaching your horse to walk with you on a slack lead. Perfected, the lesson takes you straight to lateral work and beautiful liberty training.

Approx 1 hour.

How do you bring a horse into physical balance? By shaping on a point of contact so your horse becomes internally body aware and learns how to adjust his own balance. Find out what that means and learn the skills to help your own horse achieve physical and emotional balance.

Approx 2 hours.

Do you know how the lead feels to your horse?  Are you inadvertently poisoning the clicker training experience with too much force? These t'ai chi" rope handling exercises will improve balance, help develop a more secure riding position and better understanding of the lead rope as a communication tool.

Approx 1 hour 40 minutes.

If you can count to three, you can teach your horse lateral work. Lateral work helps to steady your horse emotionally; it creates soft, rideable gaits; and it helps to maintain your horse's soundness. Find out how to teach your horse lateral flexions using the Three-Flip-Three counted exercise DVD by Alexandra Kurland.

Approx 2 hours.