Levi laying down on the job

LOL Well it was my idea though ;)

I will first say I know some don't like the idea of laying a horse down but in my honest opinion I feel it is good for the horse. Sort of humbles them and lets them know you can do most anything to them and not be out to hurt them.

I did the Clinton Anderson technique of tying the foot up like in the picture below:

I used a leg collar off of an old set of hobbles, hook up a long cotton lunge line to it. Tossed it OVER her back and pulled it back under, did 2 wraps around the pastern and one half hitch.
I then gently put pressure on the rope to the side and slightly behind her center point to get her down to the knee first like so:

As you can see it must not have bothered her too much since she was sneaking  bites of grass LOL. Now I want to say she was not forced to go down at any point I only applied pressure and let her decide how to get that pressure released. 
I will be honest she already did know how to kneel as I had been working with her on that before somewhat, so that part was easy for her to figure out.  It took her a few kneels before she laid down.  She never threw herself over either, she did a nice gentle slow drop, all very controlled.  So she looked like this:

She laid there real nice while I rubbed her down, its a good opportunity rub them down with plastic sacks etc. Then we went between laying up and out flat so she knew I could control her like this just like when she is standing and and yielding the hind and forequarters.

Then I asked her to get up and made my rope into a rein and climbed on and rode her bareback with the halter for a little bit and she did GREAT. We practiced some neck reining, turns, stopping and backing. She is catching on very well and responds to nice light touches. :)  She made me so proud.

We finished it all up with a cool shower from the hose and cooled down so she could enjoy a bit of grain.
I have to say she is coming along very nicely. Who couldn't love that sweet face.