training my western horse to english

Question
Hello,
I recently bought a 11 year old AQHA mare; she has great manners, but she was trained Western and I ride English. What techniques can I use to train her to understand my English reining? Right now, when I try to turn in one direction, she just turns her head and looks at me like, "huh?" She is very willing to learn, she's just confused. Also, her previous owner used spurs on her for the last six years. How do I wean her off of the spurs?  Often, if I am not wearing spurs or using a crop, there is no amount of kicking, voice commands or anything else that will get her to move. She will simply stand in place. She is well-behaved and good with lungeing, I simply think that she is just so used to her previous owner's riding styles. Please help me get her to move and get her to understand my English reining!!!

Answer
Hello Jessica,
To start, well if she was trained to turn with neck reining, well thats the western way, the english way is using leg and opening the opposite rein. So to start off, do ALOT of circles and stuff, and use the neck reining (western) AND our leg...
so lets say you are in an arena, and you are riding on the left rein, and you want to turn her off the track. Ok well you will use your outside (right) leg to push her away, and also use your right rein pushing on her neck.(if she was trained to neck rein).
eventually, she will understand that the leg meens turning.

Now for the spurs. Well obviously you know she CAN listen without spurs, she was just never taught too. So, start with severe enough spurs for a couple days, and then change them to less severe spurs for a week or so, and then try nothing.
Good luck and Have FUN!!!