Inspired Equine

23/03/2025

An early visit to Ranger on Saturday morning to practice loading. The weekend before took 4 hours to load and it was taking the joy out of taking Ranger places. We spent half an hour on groundwork, taking it slowly and establishing boundaries, then it only took 15 minutes to actually walk through the trailer. After some practice and a 10 minute chill out time in his stable, we boxed Ranger up and took him a 10 minute round trip journey. Freya (his human) unloaded him, reloaded perfectly first time (stopped to smell a poo!) then we left the session there. Ranger had worked very hard and he was foot perfect by the end. Remember the ramp is not the place for an argument. If the ground work is correct, it shouldn’t take much more to transfer to loading 🦄 Kelly Marks and Intelligent Horsemanship

19/03/2025

✨6th April Connection Clinic at Totleywells Equestrian one session fully sold out!✨

I slightly messed up the Horse Monkey booking (oops!) but the second session 12-1.30 is now live to book.

Booking through Horse Monkey https://horsemonkey.com/equestrian_event/72295/Connection+Clinic+with+Hannah+Wells+IHRT+0604+12-1.30 if there are any problems please let me know ASAP 🦄

05/03/2025

First Connection Clinic of the year at Totleywells Equestrian on 6th April.

We have two groups, 10am and 12am, max 4 people per group and lasting approximately 90 mins each. This will give all horsey and human participants loads of time to process while still getting plenty of attention for every aspect of the session.

https://horsemonkey.com/equestrian_event/71866/Connection+Clinic+with+Hannah+Wells+IHRT+0604

Totleywells Equestrian
Kelly Marks and Intelligent Horsemanship

26/02/2025

Amen 🙌

❗️If Training Isn’t Boring, You’re Not Doing It Right❗️

Unfortunately, social media tends to reward the dramatic. Videos of rearing, bucking horses and ‘miracle’ turnarounds get the most attention, making it seem like big emotions are part of good training. But real, ethical training doesn’t look like that. It’s the quiet moments, the small successes, and the sessions that feel a little boring that build long-term, reliable behaviour🥰

Good training should be uneventful. If it’s exciting, dramatic, or full of big emotions—chances are, you’re pushing too far, too fast.

Whether you’re working with a horse or a dog, training should feel calm, predictable, repetitive. That’s where real learning happens with low aderaline and low cortisol. They don’t learn well when they’re overstimulated, emotionally overwhelmed and stressed. They learn through consistency, patience, and small, achievable steps.

When training is too intense, the stress hormone cortisol floods the system. High cortisol levels interfere with memory, slow down learning, and leave the animal feeling anxious rather than confident. This can lead to all sorts of issues like muscle wasting, ulcers, infections and more. The more stress, the less real progress is made, at that point they are just trying to survive. 🥹

So, if your training sessions feel slow, steady, and uneventful—good. You’re probably doing it right.❤️

20/02/2025

Hi lovely people… since it is now almost spring and we are all coming out of hibernation I’m planning clinics for the new few months. What kind of thing are people interested in?

⭐️ connection/obstacle clinics
⭐️ confidence in general
⭐️ mindset and goal setting
⭐️ groundwork and body language
⭐️ leading and long reining. For babies, rehab and just in general!

Any ideas and feedback gratefully received 🦄

17/02/2025

I had written a big long post and it’s disappeared 😭

This is Bailey and his human, Claire. Bailey had a bit of a fright in the trailer a few weeks ago and is now very worried about the back bar going down behind him.

Our first visit we used an Ifor Williams 510 which gave him a tad more room, and he was almost comfortable loading and us closing a pretend back bar (pipe lagging) behind him.

Now in his own smaller trailer he’s not quite so comfy, so we’ve taken the partition out to see if this makes him any happier. Claire is also going to try an Equitrek and see if he’s happier with a different set up 🦄

13/02/2025

I’ve been doing groundwork with 3 year old Magic over the last few weeks in preparation for trailer training. Isn’t he handsome 😍
Not sure those were our words after he levitated across the school at the sight of the tarpaulin though 😂

21/01/2025

One of my lovely clients...Marmalade 💜 when she found her new owner she was bargey and a bit rude. A lovely person but very aware of her strength and used it to her advantage. Now she is a pleasure to work with, very respectful of our space and thoroughly enjoys our groundwork sessions 🦄

31/12/2024

Happy New Year everyone 🎉
Thank you to all my lovely clients for your continued support. It wouldn’t be possible without you.
I would like to promise much more posts on social media in 2025, but we all know that’s not going to happen 😬 🦄

28/11/2024

This is Amy. She has been refusing to load at her new home as she needs to travel herringbone and struggles with the turn. This was the second session. Over the last two weeks her owner has been dutifully feeding her in the trailer and Amy has been reversing back out. This has been vital and Amy learned the trailer is not a bad place. Today we spent a bit longer on ground work, identified Amy finds it much easier to bend and turn tightly to the right than the left. We switched the panels round so she now loads and turns right. And just like that, she loads and stands perfectly 💜🦄 &intelligenthorsemanship

10/10/2024

Carmin has recently only been going in the trailer to go to the vet. Understandably, she has become reluctant to load and after her last trip home from the vet requiring sedation and practically getting carried on, her owner Suzie decided trailer training was required! This session took 40 minutes, from Carmin planting herself 10ft away and refusing to move, to walking through with her owner. Can you see the moment she decided it was easier to work with me than against?
Kelly Marks and Intelligent Horsemanship
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08/10/2024

As a technophobe it’s taken this long to enter the 21st century.
I now have TikTok 😁 Please follow and share 🦄

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08/10/2024

A super fun clinic at Tannoch last week. Here are some pictures from the event. Clearly photography is not my forte 😄 hats worn at handlers discretion. Can’t wait for the next one🦄

05/10/2024

🤔 worth a watch. Why do we do what we do? And would you do it to a puppy? 😢

30/09/2024

A really nice weekend down at Hartsop Farm with Kelly Marks and Intelligent Horsemanship for the final Leading and Loading course. Made some new friends, caught up with some old friends (including the horses, I’m looking at you Artic!) and dropped into The Farmers Dog, Jeremy Clarksons newest venture, while we were there. Going to Hartsop always feeling like putting on an old pair of slippers, so it was bittersweet attending for potentially the last time.
However I’m feeling refreshed and got some new ideas, watch this space 🦄