February 5, 2010
Horse Training - Fight Or Flight and the Seventh Cervical Vertebra
Did you know that you control whether your horse is operating from a relaxed state or from a “fight or flight” state just by changing the position of his neck? Specifically, you have to change the position of his seventh cervical vertebrae, the last vertebrae in the neck. This article explains why this vertebrae is so important in controlling your horse’s state, as well as giving you several simple exercises you can try with your own horse to verify the data in this article for yourself.
