About Shawna Karrasch
SHAWNA KARRASCH
“I want horse people to start to learn how to adapt the training to the goals they have with their horses, both on the ground and under saddle.” – Shawna Karrasch
From Marine Mammals to Horses
Shawna Karrasch spent nearly ten years working to perfect her training skills with killer whales, dolphins, and other marine mammals. She then took this knowledge and applied it to horse training. Her first client was Olympic Gold Medallist Beezie Madden. Together, they found that adding in reward-based training made an amazing difference to their show-jumpers’ results.
She then started her own equine training company called “On Target Training”, offering clinics, demonstrations, lectures, private lessons and online coaching. In 2012 she published her first book “You Can Train Your Horse to do Anything!”. In 2013 she joined Hannah Weston and Rachel Bedingfield in “Connection Training”, teaching and coaching hundreds of horse owners around the world.
Shawna on Tour
Last year, Shawna visited Europe and did 9 clinics in over 7 countries. It was a huge success and the tour received positive media attention. Because of the impressive results and positive feedback, Shawna decided to do a tour through the USA and Europe this year. She will be on the road for 9 months, visiting 19 cities in 8 different countries. She is very excited and would love to share this special event with as many horse lovers as possible.
Connection Training
The Heart and Science of Positive Horse Training
Connection Training is an influential online platform for horse owners. It is a popular resource for positive horse training with many different Home Study Courses, based on practical solutions to common training questions. In 2017 Connection Training launched its Instructors’ Training Programme. Also, in September 2017, they will be opening their residential training Centre in Andalucia, Spain.
Positive horse training is nowadays a global movement and there is increasing demand for instructors and live training courses. Horse owners are hungry for information and would like to see articles
and guidance in their magazines.
Shawna Karrasch, Rachel Bedingfield, Hannah Weston at Connection Training
What other people say
“There are times when you’d love to say to the horse, ‘That was right!’ and we’ve never had a way to do that. I think it’s a big hole in the system that we have. I think that this fills in that hole.”
Beezie Madden USA | 3 times Olympic Medallist
“I recommend the concept behind ‘target-training’ because when combined with a good lesson plan, it gives the trainer an opportunity to develop a definitive and consistent way to tell the horse, “Yes, that’s it!”
John Lyons | America’s Most Trusted Horseman
"I just want to say how relieved and hopeful I am to have found Connection Training and for the results I’m seeing with the “Backing your Horse” Course. At least so far, my Mustang is following along very nicely to what the videos are teaching. Seeing how smart she is, how hard she tries and how much she really enjoys her ‘work’ sessions really makes me happy too! It’s nice to see her pretty much saying “Let’s do stuff!” when I go out just to clean. Thank you Hannah and Shawna for being available and so willing to help!!"
Lisa Duntley | USA
”I’m so excited!!! I have been following Shawna’s advice and I can proudly say that this afternoon I saddled Mojo at liberty for the first time ever! No broncing, bucking or even rounding of back! Eight years of saddling hell ended today!”
Judith Knight | UK
Shawna has answered hundreds of her follower's questions on her YouTube Channel “Ask Shawna"
Shawna's Website https://connectiontraining.com/