AMW Equine Services, LLC

11/24/2025

We are back from vacation and slowly starting to get things checked off the to do list.

We are seeing clients the next few days. It's busy. Thanksgiving we are taking time off to spend time with family . Then finishing the rest of the week seeing clients.

We are fully booked for the beginning of December with not much wiggle room.

If you messaged us while we were on vacation and don't hear back from us, please follow up with us.

11/21/2025

Reminder I am out of town attending and being in a wedding.

I’ve had a lot of messages in the last 24hrs.

Appointments are still happening as planned next week as planned.

11/18/2025

Connection.

A widely utilized word in the horse world, often used to infer the development of some magical, inexplicable relationship between horse and human.

But how can one develop connection to another without first being connected to themselves?

The development of self-awareness both in a physical sense and energetic sense is a crucial first step. We must learn to be involved in and responsible for how our body interacts with the world around it.

Connection is not difficult for horses. It's primal. It's a necessary. It's nature. This was once true for humans too but we've been pulled further from ourselves and slowly disconnected from our bodies and our surroundings.

For me, connection is not just a horse that follows me or does things willingly for me. Their good nature means they often give us more than we deserve and accomplish a lot despite us, not necessarily because of us. For me, connection is the reciprocity of the alignment and softness that I have found within myself. It is the reciprocity of ease of movement, strength and stability that I have found within myself. For me, connection is not just a horse who hunts for the answer but one who hunts for the hand because it has proven consistently that it will not block...that it will be free of brace and rigidity.

It starts with us. We cannot ask them for something that we don't have ourselves. They say that the horse is a mirror of the soul...but I think it's probably more accurate to say that they're a mirror of our nervous system and the level to which we have trained our own brain and body.

- Terra
Integrated Movement,LLC
Connected Riding with Peggy Cummings'

11/15/2025

Reminder going into next week I am heading off to vacation. I am getting a much needed break and downtime. I am also getting to celebrate a very dear friend getting married.

I will not be monitoring Facebook messages or social media.

We are booked full for the rest of November and the beginning of December is full.

If you are looking to become a client please fill out the form on our website.

Messages and emails will be responded to after November 24th.

11/14/2025

Can your horse shift their weight from one foot to another when asked?

Can you ask them to weight a specific foot from just a slight movement?

So many horses cannot do these basic things.

A horse can simply lift a leg when asked. But, does the horse understand on how to correctly maneuver their body to comfortably support their body to lift a leg.

It’s something so simple, but is so difficult for many horses.

After attending clinics this last year that focused on helping horses find comfort in their own bodies and in movement. To help the horse understand how to organize their body for better functionality. If a horse can not organize their body by themselves and only when forced means you will get a horse that is stiff and rigid.

Helping a horse learn to comfortably function in their own body. Organize their own movements and posture sets the horse up for comfort when asked to participate in a task.

How can you help?

Help the horse to understand how to shift weight from one leg to another.

Help the horse understand to shift weight to back or front when asked.

Help a horse find their correct posture that supports them.

This all helps a horse find comfort during hoof care appointments.

I can guarantee your horse will also become a favorite of your hoof-care provider.

There is so much more that goes into helping a horse feel comfortable during their hoof care appointment .

11/13/2025

Is this the equivalent of a bowl cut?

Free F***l Water syndrome, mud galore, and matted with burrs and brush equals tail chop.

It was way beyond gross.

It will grow out perfectly well for spring.

Anyone else do tail trims when the winter mud hits?

11/12/2025

11/12/2025

Free F***l Water

Free F***l Water tends to appear more often in winter, when horses move off pasture and start eating primarily hay.
To help troubleshoot the issue, here’s the Free F***l Water Flow Chart.

I will also post a link in the comment section with tips and tricks on keeping your horses hind end clean over the winter months.

11/10/2025

When you study under someone masterful, you have to open up -

You’re immersed in a world of awareness, feel, skill beyond your wildest dreams. They make what you struggle with look magic, simple, fluid and effortless.

But they possess a humility themselves - they don’t boast about their talent, their uniqueness, they don’t need to make it known, because it just is. They don’t mind if no one sees it, they don’t shout their importance out onto the world.

Their brilliance is in their calm awareness, the way they see the whole world.

And if you study under a master, you know your own humility is the only way forward. You have to be wide open enough to wonder, to recieve the awesomeness of the world, and you can’t waste any energy on self importance, or self pity- you have to be awake to the beauty around you, and take it all in.

11/10/2025

Reset!!!

Being able to reset glue-on shoes is a skill.

Knowing when it’s time to use a new shoe or reset the old is knowing the horse it’s going on.

Some horses wear the shoe down enough that it actually causes an imbalance to happen in the shoe. The nice thing sometimes with composites. Sometimes you grind the balance back into the shoe.

It’s also knowing if the retention of the shoe is going to happen for another cycle. The cuff may be worn a little to thin to hold. The cuff has ripped a bit that may not be easily repaired.

There are now many shoes on the market that give a better percentage of resetting successfully.

📸: Easyshoe One with Mushroom Cuff reset for a second cycle. After applying the shoe with superglue, the cuff didn’t cure or sit fully against the hoof wall. So using leftover Hooflox Acrylic. I sealed the cuff as a security for retention.