Audited Saturday--lots of great info and insights!

Today was so much fun and very little pressure auditing. I was pleased to feel such a part of the clinic and that I could incorporate that into my learning, as the topics were all so much a part of where Try and I are at. A special thank you to Chris for including me.

AM session on the ground (couldn't stay for afternoon riding):

1. Drifting HQ on the circle. It was so helpful to see Dan coaching Chris to stay with it until she got the result and this is so much a part of my highest priority right now. i.e. not quitting too soon--at the first bit of try--settling for good enough.

2. Next simulations on one handed zone 5 driving using contact. I got Chris as a partner and was finding all sorts of stuff from the Game of Contact course I audited last year making sense. I love that I can see a purpose to contact without having to ride with contact as I just don't feel that is the right thing for Try and I right now. The fluid rein running through one hand while maintaining the other felt really good. Also I like the feeling of steady contact similar to when Cobie did that when I was her horse/partner at GoC--like slurping up through the belly and full torso. I remembered this am that Linda had said that this contact with a lead rope feels great and that I have been practicing it with Try when ever I would actually want to use the lead rope rather than hold it as if at liberty. Further this ties in to the clinic last year with Kelly when I was using the fluid rein to ask Try to stretch. Yahoo!!

3. Then Dan reviewed using game 2 porcupine to ask the front end to move in zone 5 driving. This rather than asking for the forward moving by shaking the ropes (driving game). He used me as the demonstatee and that rope shaking felt really rude. I was just standing there pleasantly and here comes all this shaking. wow Again I really watched Chris here as she was doing exactly what I need to be doing with staying with the game until it is won (not settling for good enough). I saw her truly win and make such strides in her relationship with Tye and I want that. I want to not wimp out with Try. I want to recognize when she is emotional and stay with it til she relaxes. I want to be more particular about tasks and stay with them as long as it takes--not for the task itself--but for the relationship. Some how, though I have known this for some time and struggled, it is making sense in a new way. Double Yahoo!

Great day.