Treasure Valley Hoofbeats

02/12/2025

😂🤣🤣🤣😂😭
If you know, you know….

02/12/2025

How do you show up?

If someone paid you a million bucks to clean a stall…how would you do it?

Imagine someone gave you everything to make your dreams come true - all the tools, the gear, everything. How would you show up?

I bet if you asked yourself the small question of “how would I show up if I knew I was getting paid $1,000,000 to do it?” You would operate at a different/higher level immediately.

I bet you’ll meet a new version of yourself that is hungry, determined, that can’t believe the potential was there the entire time!

I hope that when you think about this small question when doing the menial task, cleaning a stall, doing paperwork, going through the motions - that it brings a fast shift for your mindset that is life altering! Because after all, how you do anything is how you do everything. 👊🏽

P.S. stall by Dolly Ward

02/07/2025

02/05/2025

Before February happened… We were having a pretty good time! Fingers crossed that this rain will pass quickly, and we will be back in the saddle soon. In the meantime, we will be having tack room and unmounted lessons. So much to learn OFF the back of a horse!! 

01/29/2025

It’s coming together! First day of lessons at the new place!!

01/25/2025

At One Mane Ranch this am!

01/25/2025

The girls are starting to settle in and learn their new routine!

01/12/2025

Inside leg to outside rein….and bend! BOOM! 💥 😂😂

01/04/2025

Today we practiced “rhythm”. Have you ever tried to stay in rhythm, walking with your horse? If you can’t do it on the ground, can you really do it in the saddle? Can you tell in the pictures when the riders are in rhythm with their horse? 

12/29/2024

😂🤣 the more I learn, the less I knew….

Tell me more, dear student! 😂

12/26/2024

As many of you know, we will be moving to a new facility after the 1st of the year. We are so thankful to have the Waterwheel barn for the past 4 years, but with it going up for sale, it’s time to find something a little more permanent. Congrats to Grace on the purchase of her home and new facility, The Fort! Looking forward to this new journey with Fortitude and determination!

12/21/2024

Every trainer/coach/instructor/professional should have a basic understanding of this.
This is a FANTASTIC video!! 😃😃

At the clinic I gave at Hands On Harmony in Dewitt MI, Kathy Glew, owner, had a horse skeleton that fit my human skeleton Neville. This gave me the opportuni...

12/15/2024

Good ol Charlie, she’s such steady girl. We rode in the Emmett horse parade last night, surrounded by jingle bells, and costumes, and giant blowup decorations on the side of the road. There were horses that didn’t want to stand still, flashing cop lights in front of us, and the wind in the rain were pretty bad at the end of the ride. And the only thing she looks sideways at… Was a puddle…😂

🐴 💕

12/04/2024

It’s frosty this am!

11/13/2024

Yes!

This is a thought that has come up in the Relax & Reset Challenge, and I thought it was a good thought worth sharing for everyone.

When the poll releases, the head and neck will lengthen and lower. But just because we ask for the head to lower, doesn't mean that they release their poll. What we are after is relaxation in the poll (and, subsequently by trickle effect, the rest of the body), not a position in the head. The head position changes as a 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭, not as a 𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭.

If they lower their head without releasing the poll (as we see so often in many "put your head down" programs) they can be holding tension in a false relaxed-appearing posture. This is obedience, often without acceptance. Position without release. And this will always end up showing up in the rest of the body at some point, also.

Proper work is a form of bodywork. Improper work causes us to need bodywork (or overlook that and try to force more obedience later down the road).

Something to think about...

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11/02/2024

Next Saturday in Emmett. Please message if you are interested in attending.

10/31/2024

Yep, it’s fall!!