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10/17/2024

the “babies”!🤍
ML MagicMan “huey” 2yo purebred stud c**t

ML Causin Mayhem “hammy” purebred yearling stud c**t (still a bit awkward in his standup!😅)

My Sweet Audie “audie” 5month old HA

09/14/2024

what a fun day at the benefit show!
Boston showed hunter for the first time and had lots of feelings… but redeemed himself highly being the most perfect leadline pony and then turning around and placing reserve in the under 13 Western division!🦄❤️

08/29/2024

“Horses provide a type of therapy not found anywhere else”
Boston being a gem toting around his favorite little lesson kid this past weekend💛

07/22/2024

Trooper is well… quite the trooper😅
everyone’s favorite guy takes just about anything we decide to throw at him for the day, although Ham & Audie were quite upset they didn’t get to join in🦄🥰

07/13/2024

ML Magic Man✨🪄
“Huey”

07/11/2024

if you didn’t take advantage of the cool weather & breeze this morning you missed out!

I’m available in the mornings for lessons & leisure riding for those that don’t want to miss the next cool morning!🌅🦄

06/23/2024

as lesson instructors we all know kids love to just get on and ride but why are we not teaching the “life” skills of the horse world?!
If we want to produce and give the skills to create the next generation of horse people you need to get up & get hands on!
🦄🦄

04/08/2024

ML Causin Mayhem✨
so excited for this c**t and to see him grow up

**t

04/01/2024

What better way to spend an 80° Easter Sunday than with ponies!🦄
Happy Easter🐣☀️🐰

02/29/2024

for all my lesson kids that ride trooper… 8 years ago!

12/14/2023

Happy national day of the horse to all of our wonderful & tolerant lesson ponies/horses🦄✨🤍🩷
we’re thankful for them each and everyday!

11/25/2023

We had a great time at our fall day camp!
A special thank you to Double K Trick Riding for taking the time to talk to the kids!

11/18/2023

What a great sunny warm Saturday for lessons!☀️
Everyone had great rides & lots of improvements🦄✨

We have a few spots still open on Saturdays for those interested or still needing to get on the schedule

11/09/2023

Fall day camp!
November 25th 9:30am -12pm
We’ll be having trick rider Karsyn Logan of Double K Trick Riding giving a presentation that morning along with lots of in the saddle time followed by a pizza party for lunch!

Limited spots still available! pm or message 7048522566 to get a spot🦄

11/03/2023

The Seat Explained

The seat has two meanings.
One is the specific area of contact that extends from the lumbar
back down to the knee, in other words, whatever moves from the lumbar area down to the
knee is the rider's seat.
But in a broader sense, the rider's seat is everything because its influence is entire, from the top of the head, which should be the highest point, of course, to the bottom of his heel.

The seat should be a cohesive unit that comes to the horse as a communication medium and as a transformation medium, one that is communicating cohesively and as a unit rather than in bits and pieces. I would like to say that even when a teacher gives specific directions to the rider to do something with his arms and with his legs, those directions
influence the rest of the rider. Because the rider is one person, he must communicate as one unit, one seat.

Riders should have balanced, deep, adhesive seats that allow them to make independent aids. Riders who remain adhesive to the saddle and their horses do so because they
understood and they learned that when the horse impacts on the ground the two points of
absorption are in the lumbar back and ankle. Riders who stiffen the ankle paralyse the toe
outward or downward, or push themselves away from the saddle to some degree. Riders
who cannot absorb the horse's movement in the lumbar back will, of course, pop loose of
the saddle and part from it.

Correct riding is done with the abdominal muscles, not with the back.
The rider's lumbar back should always remain relaxed. It should act as a hinge that allows
the pelvic structure to float forward with the horse's motion. The lumbar back allows the rider to remain isometrically toned - not tense -- in his torso while letting the buttocks and thighs remain adhesive to the saddle. The buttocks, the pelvic structure, should not slide on the surface of the saddle. Nor should the buttocks wipe or buff the saddle but rather "stick to it to allow the pelvic structure to surf the “wave" produced by the motion of the horse's back.

In contrast to the loose and supple use of the lumbar back, the torso above it should be
turned into one isometrically toned "cabinet." The rider's “cabinet" is a complex isometric unit.
For its formation, the rider should circle with the points of his shoulder back and down until
both shoulder blades are flat in the trapezius muscle of the back. This action will stabilise the posture of the torso. It will allow the front of the rider to lift the rib cage high, out of the abdominal cavity. It will broaden the chest, straighten the shoulders, stretch the front of the rider, and give him the feeling that the lowest ribs have been lifted, and the waist is more slender.
The rider's upper arms should then hang from his shoulders perpendicular to the
ground. This, importantly, stabilises the arms, hence the hands of the rider because in this
position the upper arms and elbows hang weightlessly. The earth's centre of gravity places
them. The direction of the upper arms and elbows will point to the rider's seat bones, and past them, to the ground. The stability provided by this upper-arm position is at the heart of riding - from the seat to the bridle, rather than wrongly, riding with the hands. For the vertical position of the upper arms is, indeed, responsible for the transferring of the seat's effects to the bridle.

Extract from Dressage Principles Illuminated by Charles de Knuffy p.140

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To understand how to use your lower back to develop an adhesive seat, sit at the edge of a chair, and place
your feet on the floor in line with, and under your hips.
Thrust your pelvis forward so that you lift the back legs of
the chair off the ground. Then rock the chair forward and
backward to various different tilting angles and at different
rhythms without dropping the chair's back legs to the floor.
As you ride the walk, trot, and canter, this action simulates
the movement of an adhesive seat by emulating the pelvic
activity necessary to follow the horse's movement.

10/09/2023

“Horses teach patience, gentleness and calmness. Only when the children learn to act calmly, relaxed, self-confident and not too hectic and loud will the horses be happy to be around them. So horses turn little energy balls into relaxed and happy children”

we are so lucky to have 2 amazing and tolerant kids lesson horses who love what they do!

10/02/2023

Our lovely 5yo home bred & raised gelding “Oleskas Boston Gun” starting to show promise of being a lesson pony!
So proud of this guy!🥰🦄

09/25/2023

Our lovely brother/sister duo🤍
ML Miss Intimidator “Darla” and ML Causin Mayhem “hammy”

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Videos

Huey says the best water comes off trooper… not the clean buckets in his stall🤦‍♀️🫠

a quick evening baby session tonight! Audie has done nothing but exceed my expectations❤️ officially 3 months as of yesterday!

One of our long term Students working on her sitting trot this week with everyone’s favorite white pony. we’re so grateful for this mare!🤍🪽

“MC Commodore” being a perfect example of a 3rd ride tonight! This boy has been nothing short of a pleasure to work with. You won’t want to miss out on this guy!

Maggie and ruby made their debut at the jackpot tonight! So proud of this team and how hard they’ve been working! Dixie Meeks

when commodore first arrived i was quick to notice that sprays were very scary to the point he would not allow even his chest to be sprayed without freaking out and trying to run through me… fast forward 4 days and this is now our response to fly spray! he still questions it at first but very quickly realizes what i’m doing and allows it! Horses that are willing and have a want to learn make my job so easy😊