Robin Flory Parelli Professional

06/14/2025

Principles, Purpose and Time. I feel lucky every day when I wake up, knowing I get to learn and play with so many different horses. This horse, especially, has taught me a lot! First watching and assisting Pat Parelli and then getting the opportunity to help develop him on the ground and under saddle.

Purpose has been on my mind often these days. The purpose is what helps all the games make sense to the horse. Adding purpose sooner helps horses learn.

Conner learning to drag things, prepare to open gates and follow the flag has helped him learn to read situations and rate himself through time and space instead of his old habits of freezing, exploding or becoming determined to get out of a situation no matter what the consequences. He still has moments where he gets worried anoit what might happen, but more and more he feels like he is trying to be a partner.

04/24/2025

I love how shiny my horses are when they shed out in the spring!

04/10/2025

We’ve definitely been having fun on campus, spending time with a great team and getting lessons from Pat. Fonz has of course been my rock solid partner and I’m excited that I’ve gotten to spend more time with Gatsby lately. He is fun, playful and learns so fast! We keep the sessions short and sweet since he is still young and developing. He seems to be loving every minute as much as I am :)

03/24/2025

02/22/2025

Parelli® Presents Our Annual Event:
The Horse Psychology Summit 🐴

Pat will be passing on, to you, the knowledge he got from his mentors such as Ray Hunt and Tom Dorrance ✨

Learn about:
➡️ Solving problems naturally
➡️ Ages & stages
➡️ Trailer loading
➡️ & much more!

Join us VIRTUALLY on FEB 28 - MAR 1 2025 for THE Parelli Event of the year; The Horse Psychology Summit! 🐴✨🌍

Discover more & get your tickets here:
https://bit.ly/42vTVSY

The event will be livestreamed in English 🇬🇧
There will be breakout sessions in Italian 🇮🇹, Dutch 🇳🇱, German 🇩🇪 and French 🇫🇷

06/05/2024

Level 4 is Level 1 with excellence ;)

I read a theory about why so many riders lack a deep command of basics, and it was explained like this---

Correct basics are hard to master because there is an enormous amount of repetition involved, and if someone has tried something hundreds, possibly thousands of times, and still can’t do it, it is easy for the person to conclude that he/she is taking on an impossible challenge.

In his book “Mastery,” George Leonard wrote that on the quest to become good, there will be long stretches of “seeming non-improvement.”

Like watching grass grow, change is happening, but so slowly that it can’t be measured daily, weekly, or even monthly. But at some point, for those who stick with it, “suddenly” they can do things that before they couldn’t do.

The issue is giving up in frustration before putting in those many many many many months of practice.

That is ONE theory. I am sure there are many others, but this one does ring true.

06/03/2024

On the road again! This time on the way to Pagosa to help teach and ride with Pat for the month. Fonz and Broom got to meet some great-nephews and niece of mine. Thankful I have such good travelers with me :)

05/14/2024

Ha, I need to work on my picture taking skills!
I’ve been spending time at the Animal Rescue League of Iowa while I’m up here this month. They assigned me to some horses that have been hard to catch or unhandled, a favorite of mine 🙂 We’ve made some progress the first week. The two mares are following me around more and have stopped trying to run through me. I just added the two yearlings who haven’t been haltered and need to be gelded. Fun projects!

03/29/2024

Got to spend some time with this little cutie. 🙂 She hadn’t been touched before yesterday and laid down instead of getting off the trailer, so I coached the vet team to help her unload and get into a stall.
The 1st pic was at the start of the session, the second one at the end. She was getting more relaxed with me but was still a bit skeptical.
We played with her being ok with me approaching. I rubbed on her and found a couple itchy spots. Then I started to help her understand how to follow a feel and a suggestion. By the end she understood to come forward instead of turn and run the opposite direction. Good progress for the day!

03/25/2024

It was great to be at Road to the Horse and see Tik do a fantastic job with his horse! He stuck to his principles and put the horse first throughout the weekend and it paid off :)

03/13/2024

Hey, just a heads up, the touchscreen on my phone isn't working at the moment so I'm not able to answer phone or texts or do anything when I'm not at the house. I'm hoping to get it fixed by this evening 🤞

03/07/2024