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Marcel Olivé

Marcel Olivé

Horsemanship expert, author, and equine-assisted leadership coach with 20+ years of experience in natural horsemanship and equine welfare.

Jul 11, 2026

4:40
... it's an animal that needs to, to be safe.
4:44
Otherwise, the first reaction is, "Okay, I'm going away from here," because it's their, uh, their, their safe mechanism to survive in, in the wild.
4:54
So again, there is a lot of things we can, we have to provide to the horse for the horse to feel safe.
4:59
That will be from, uh, predictable, uh, routines, fe- freedom, so the horse needs to feel, to feel that his freedom of choice, otherwise he feels confined and without, uh, being able to, to choose what comes later, that, that, uh, restricts the, the freedom of this animal.
5:20
And physiological safety and, and, and sensory verification.
5:24
If we restrict the, the, the senses of the horse, for instance, when we, we, "No, no, that needs to be quiet here." Okay, we are checking, [laughs] we are restricting the horse from checking, uh, the environment to feel, to feel safe.
10:31
Yes.

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