I know that Becky will answer that she is not a fan of free lunging or free round pen work, and I'm not a believer in it either. It teaches only the most very basic lessons of 'run away' when I chase you, which is really not all that helpful to us in preparing horses to ride and work. I would teach the horse to lunge with a line and teach the horse to respond to verbal commands to walk, trot, canter and woah, enforced by lungeline correction or the whip as needed. It teaches skills and responsiveness to commands with a lot more precision than free lunging.
YES:).
IMO:) free lunging teaches more bad habits then it does any kind of training.
With one that turns and faces you like that, it IS hard to work, and at that point the only thing I can say is, first anticipate that she is going to do that and be ready to correct BEFORE she actually does it. You won't be able to just stand in the center at first, till you get her broke of doing that. You need to stay more towards her hip end, and be giving her the voice command, I kiss, non stop till/while she circles without turning towards you. If she does get turned to face you, as she comes to you, pop her in the chest/inside shoulder with the whip, not face, to back her off. Then get yourself back in postion at her hip and get her going. Don't get discouraged it can be difficult to stay at their hip. Especially since you don't want to be within kicking distance:)
One thing to remember, is horses move away from pressure.
If you do get her good with the whip and she takes off fast, let her go for a half circle before getting her to slow down to a trot. And when slowing her down, don;t keep constant pressure on the halter, pull and release, pull and release, while at the same time kissing, and even if necessary, tapping on her butt with the whip, to keep from coming to a complete stop and facing you again. When slowing one down, I also use the voice command "easy". All these voice commands will transfer on to when you ride.
Anticipating what they are going to do and correct BEFORE they do it is the key. IMO:). Then when they ARE doing it right for 2 circles, STOP. Pat. stand a few seconds, start again.
I hope I'm making sense. This is all hard to explain:)
Becky