Teaching Takeaways

Our horse can’t advance forward in functional movement, with functional posture, if we are pulling on the reins.

I’ve touched on this topic before: the cohesiveness of your professionals. It is essential that the professionals you choose can...

There is no guidebook because the answer when finding the right path is, “It depends”.

How do we refeed a starving horse? Carefully. You can literally kill then with kindness. Google refeeding syndrome. Giving a starving...

Favorite Things Friday

May Master Zoom

Having horses is expensive. Most of us try to save where we can. Investing in good equipment and proper care is important but expensive....

Don’t train weakness. I don’t believe any of us intentionally do this but by not riding with intention we inadvertently do it. So what...

If you haven’t read this book, I highly recommend that you do. You will look at your horse differently.

I just spent two fabulous days learning! I’m super exhausted so this will be short. But expect some detailed posts coming up as I...

They talk to us. We need to be more educated listeners.

March Recording and April Zoom info

The expense of tack. It’s easy to buy cheap. But it isn’t always what is best for your horse. We are asking our horses to do a job they...

Have a horse with a bad experience? Hard to load? Have a horse you have to force in and slam the door?

Our horses are stoic creatures. They will function through discomfort because they don’t feel they have a way out. This is called Learned...

Don’t skip the body work

Video for Masters Level Subscribers

Masters video

Anyone can ride a crooked horse. Anyone can ride a horse fast. It takes skill to ride a horse and help them remain straight and...