1) Body Language exercises for horse and human
A game designed to better co-ordinate the mind and body involving knowing your left from your right therefore rehearsing and performing left and right mind body exercises.

This is practical and logical in the application of holistic horsemanship to know oneself before interacting with the horse. To become a leader one has to be confident of one's own actions and reactions to the horse body language.

Only once we have a firm understanding of this concept are you able to teach the horse the same concept. Train the brain and the body will follow applies to horse and human.

2) Freestyle Lunging
Involves lunging a horse in a large (20-22 diameter arena) well footed sand or grass arena. The horse is free of any halter and lead rope. This is where people can learn and experience the so called horse whispering experience as well as determine...

a) which side of a horse is mentally weak and which side is strong.
b) which side is easier to obtain leadership and which side is resilient.
c) which side responds aggressively and which side responds submissively.
d) which side responds to pressure and which side doesn’t respond to pressure.
e) which side is the emotionally abused side & which side is the accepting side.
f) which side is the physically abused side and which side is the loved side.
g) which side/foot is lame or sound.
h) which side is co-ordinated and which side is uncor-ordinated.
i) which side is respectful and which side is disrespectful.
j) which side is resentful of human contact and which side is affectionate.
k) which side is trustworthy and which side is fearful.
l) Which side is the nervous side and which side is the confident, safe side.

The horse has a left and a right side with regards to all our exercises. These exercises make it easier for us to understand how and why a horse acts or reacts the way it does. Therefore the best way to help the horse is to know for certain a simple task of knowing your left from your right as being the first step towards holistic horsemanship. EBTSA has introduced a preliminary body language exercise to help develop this simple yet naturally effective and efficient technique.

5) Obstacle Lunging
This is when we lunge a horse on a 5m lead around, over and through obstacles to lighten the horses brain to the concept of pressure.

In some exercises the horse has to rely on visual pressure and in some exercises the horse has to respond to pressure on the lead. 

6) Backing a horse
A horse can be backed in an incredibly small amount of time (less than 10 hours of interaction) once exercises 1-4 have been thoroughly rehearsed and the horse is scoring passing marks, then we know that the mind of the horse is at ease with regards to accepting pressure on its back without having to stress the horse out mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually. The best and most effective way to back a horse is to train the mind and get the body to follow instead of breaking a horse. You do not take risks when getting on a horse. Rather know for sure how the horse will react than taking a chance.

7) Freestyle Riding
This is to determine how little pressure one can use to ride a horse. The aim with every horse is to be able to lighten the horse up to pressure so that you do not require a saddle, bridle, halter or lead rope. All the ground work exercises are followed through to the back of the horse. When we ride a horse bareback and apply pressure on the side of the horse’s spine the horse naturally moves away from the pressure exerted. When we apply pressure on the horses back with our seat we are able to teach a horse to stop. Freestyle riding helps people develop their balance and an independent seat.