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Is Natural Riding Art the same as Natural Horsemanship?

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Is Natural Riding Art the same as Natural Horsemanship?

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No. Within regular Natural horsemanship the goal is to convince the human of his absolute dominance and leadership. The reason behind this is to create a safe and relax manner in which the human can use his horse for his leisure. The methods involved are based on some natural behaviours of the horse. Though in fact there is nothing natural about a horse who pressures an other horse to perform certain actions. A horse shall never push an other horse to perform an exercise or go somewhere the other does not want to, not even if he is an alpha or leading horse. Within Natural Academic Riding art we are not interested in human dominance and leadership but in health, personal development of both Equine and human, communication and above all fun, first for the horse and then for the human. With this starter points in the horse human relationship and the communication between them that follows, we have experienced over and over that human and horse safety is a side effect that sort of develop

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