Robin Flory Parelli Professional

08/03/2025

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.