The Intuitive Horse

08/16/2025

Liberty training helps me teach my wild horse scary things without making him feel restricted.

07/05/2025

My day starts with a morning greeting from my horses 🐎 😊 ✨️🧡🥰

06/22/2025

This is why I love the wild horses and have my horses living in a natural setting.

Many years ago we had some folks with some high dollar cutting horses join us rounding up cattle, promising to show us "how to round up cows..." They were done by 10:00, bloody and banged up, horses done, lathered, stove up and limping. And uh, no cows..... It wasn't the horses fault. They were probably good at what they were bred to do and used to doing which was moving around an arena cutting cows... One of the things I've seen over the years is you can't bring arena, or flatlander horses to rough country and expect good things to happen. Again, not the horses fault. I don't think most people really get that handling rough country is something that takes a lot of skill and hard learned lessons. Horses aren't born knowing it, how to lean into a hard pull, sitting down on a steep descent, shifting weight and momentum, where to place their feet, and it gets even more challenging with the weight of a rider on their back. It's just not a fair thing to ask of a flat lander horse, and it's likely to get both horse and rider in a bad spot.

Thinking back, those cutting horses might have made decent mountain rides with a lot of experience, they had the try, but they still lack the heavy bone and hoof needed to hold up in those conditions. Just two very different types of horse.

So, my advice to those who want to ride rough country, consider getting one that grew up like this from day one.....

04/16/2025

The mud monster 😀

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04/12/2025

Happy 95th birthday to Jane Stelkia!🥳🧡✨️🎶🙏
Jane is the oldest elder in Okanagan nation.
It was so special to hear her story later about her long life with horses at her birthday celebration and to see pictures of her 103 year old grandmother on a horse.
She talked about growing up with no toys, only horses and animals. Their only form of transportation was on horseback.
This truly is a horse culture.
It feels so special to have a horse from this family.
My beautiful Phoenix comes from this horse culture.

03/25/2025

The Bent Branderup® cavesson.

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03/24/2025

Phoenix comes from the Stelkia Ranch. They are having another sale this year in June.

I highly recommend these horses. In my whole life with horses, Phoenix is one of the best I have ever had.

Phoenix and I have participated in international online clinics with Bent Branderup the grand master of The Academic Art of Riding, in Denmark. Bent has very good things to say about Phoenix. It's pretty exciting to have this world renowned trainer compliment Phoenix.

Here's a little video showing some liberty training that we are doing.

02/14/2025

Being a good leader for your horse is so very important.

01/31/2025

Sidepass at liberty.

01/31/2025

Rather than going after Phoenix, I invite him to me.