Jane Taylor-Young's demonstration at Equitana Asia Pacific in 2008 focussed on overcoming resistance in the horse.

At Equitana 2008, Jane's demonstration began by working two horses at liberty simultaneously. The purpose was to show how movement and focus can be used to separate the horse that's unwilling to be caught.

Jane promoted energy to both the horses and her audience and drew in spectators that were passing by, not just those seated in the stands.

Jane's demonstration illustrated the mirroring that takes place with horses.

Periodically, Jane would cease her work with the horses to recap on the main points made during the liberty work.

When Jane began to demonstrate softening work from the ground, the results were very obvious.

Wherever possible, Jane's approach to teaching involves the audience. Here Jane takes a volunteer named Lauren and uses her to experience what communication can feel like for the horse with respect to the reins. For volunteering, Lauren won a copy of the DVD and booklet 'Selecting The Best Training Method For Your Horse' produced by Jane and her company for a launch at Equitana in 2005.

Once into the ridden work it is obvious that Jane is more concerned with communicating with her audience than she is about riding an unknown horse in a strange and fairly distracting environment. Jane is showing the natural carriage of this specific horse, prior to showing the affects of the softening work that follows.

Jane here shows the softening of the jaw and the effect on the overall body of the horse.

Here Jane demonstrates the softness and light contact. The horse adopts an engaged posture and with a head carriage on the vertical.

Jane covered bridling as this had proved to be a problem with many in the 2005 audience.

Jane was able to walk the horse round in a circle and away from the feed bin to cover the aspect of not becoming injured at feeding time.

Jane was busy with questions at the conclusion of her demos.