Memberships Details

Groundwork Program Membership

On-line, Off-line/Liberty

Overview

When you build a foundation of understanding and respect with feel, everything else comes easy. That’s the goal — balance from the ground up.

BHT Groundwork Program builds communication through the horse’s natural responses to pressure and release, body language, and the drive-line — that invisible line that influences direction, speed, and focus. The goal: Develop a calm, connected, and confident partner who moves off your feel — not your strength.

Member Benefits
  • Groundwork video lessons - Essentials, Intermediate, & Advanced
  • Members Newsletter with news, program updates, and special promotions
  • Member-only discounts on tools & gear, educational books and guides, clinics, and events.
  • New lessons and troubleshooting videos, added regularly, to keep your training fresh and progressive.
Course Details
BHT Essentials starts with foundational basics of clarity and connection: establish space, boundaries, and lightness through purposeful movement.
What You’ll Work On:
  • Building confidence through sight exposure, touch, and a rhythmic flow between circles and obstacles like bridges, tarps, ground poles and more.
  • Establishing “driveline control” — using your natural focus and path of travel, to guide and direct the motion of the horse in regards to their natural tendencies surrounding the Driveline
  • Teaching lightness through forequarter and hindquarter yields, back-ups, and smooth circles.
  • Developing light communication — where two fingers on the line can move your horse’s whole body.
Add precision and flow: using patterns for developing a responsive, balanced horse who stays mentally connected through every turn, transition, and task.This is where precision meets feel — where groundwork turns into partnership in motion.
What You’ll Work On:
  • Patterns like the Tear Drop, Leapfrog, and Slice-n-Dice to control and coordinate the forehand and hindquarters.
  • Pivots and slack-line circles to improve rhythm and lightness.
  • Liberty transitions that test trust, respect and timing.
  • Advanced steering through Sternum Steering and Convex Circles.
  • Introducing advanced groundwork skills like using the “knot lariat” in a safe, controlled way.
Freedom through focus: perform obstacles and liberty maneuvers with timing and feel. The Advanced Groundwork module transforms into artistry. This is where horse and human move together in self-carriage — at liberty, at distance, and in complete understanding. Every cue becomes intention, and every movement flows from trust and respect.
What You’ll Work On:
  • Mastering maneuvers and obstacles at distance with accuracy and lightness.
  • Refining circles, pivots, and transitions for advanced balance and rhythm.
  • Liberty exercises like Lead Changes, Mirroring and Sternum Steering.
  • Engaging multiple obstacles and changing patterns without losing connection.
  • Cultivating self-carriage — where your horse takes responsibility for balance and rhythm.