Equine Services by: Ajia

02/08/2025

It’s been some time since I’ve posted any personal updates to this page. I want to welcome and thank new followers, new clients and clients who’ve been with me for years. Many of you know I have battled autoimmune issues that bring physical limitations for most of my life - because of that I have focused the last decade on coaching, mentoring and lessons more so than “hands on” training.

I can’t begin to explain the excitement I feel sharing that I feel better now than I have since I was diagnosed in 2005! I have slowly started taking a very limited number of outside horses again and am offering single sessions for anyone looking to schedule (by the hour).

I am still offering private lessons but have expanded to outside facilities in our area. I offer group lessons and to anyone looking to schedule a clinic or group ride for their team, 4H group, family and/or friends - Please reach out to discuss details. If anyone who’s worked with me cares to share their experience below for new followers to better understand my program and what to expect - Please feel free to do that as well!

14 years! Thank you all for sticking with me over the years, helping me prove doctors wrong and allowing me to pursue this passion and make a living at it! I am forever in debt to you and words cannot explain my gratitude.

01/16/2025

NPRA Short List
January 15, 2025🐴

01/11/2025

Vicki has been an integral part of my program for over a decade - Thankful for meeting her when I did and not just for the help she’s provided my client horses but my personal horses as well as my own body! Irreplaceable and ALWAYS adding to her repertoire. Less than a week til she comes to our barn again and I always look forward to it!

Happy New Year! Vicki has some exciting new technology she is offering along with her normal sessions. She is able to access parts of the body that she wasn't able to before, using FSM technology. We are introducing two new members to our team, that have been learning with Vicki for years and will help us see clients in a more timely manner. In other exciting news Vicki is so close to having the Balance Therapy Center, open and ready for humane sessions! Elana will also be ready to take structural integration sessions on humans in the spa.

01/04/2025

“These ones that are bothered, when you put pressure on them they go away in their mind to where they are safe. They can follow the mechanics but they can’t follow the feel.

I have to put the feel back into him by making our relationship more important than his fear.

This is important because in times of uncertainty and unpredictable circumstance’s, mechanics will fail when put in place of trust.” - Matt Robertson

01/02/2025

Hello everyone, My name is Madison McClanahan and I am your Miss Teen Rodeo Washington 2025. Born and raised in the small town of Shelton, Washington I grew up competing at Northwest Jr Rodeos and eventually onto to Washington State High School Rodeos. I’m currently a student at the University of Idaho and a member the Alpha Phi sorority.

My main goal during my reign is to empower rodeo youth and embrace western heritage. I cannot wait to represent this amazing Evergreen State and see where this year takes me.

With Love,
Miss Teen Rodeo Washington 2025
Madison McClanahan

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12/19/2024

Get your entries in.

12/11/2024

Michael Boone, one of barrel racing’s all-time leading owners, passed away June 1 while working at his home in Tyrone, Pennsylvania. He was 59. Barrel Horse News pays tribute to Boone’s life and legacy through a collection of past conversations and interviews over the years.

11/19/2024

Do You Babysit...

I often see people getting caught in the mindset to treat the horse the way they acted once upon a time. This creates a reactivity to what the horse might possibly do today simply based on history.

I'm a firm believer that if we treat our horse or even a child who has been naughty in the past, as if they will always be that way, we will probably be right. I'm sure glad I'm not now judged on how I was at twelve years old. I'm different now. We simply cannot expect failure over and over and get anything but more failure.

Instead, we should always strive to first have the expectation of how we expect the horse to be and them treat them like it. Want a respectful horse (child), show them the expectation and hold them accountable. Most of the time, that's what we will end up with.

Then, we need to consistently show them what we expect and then give them a chance to become it.

Where many get jammed up is when we micro manage everything they do (babysit) and never ask them or certainly never allow them to change and become that trusted partner.

We spend so much time worrying about the wonky tracks they have already made that we don't actually allow them to make fresh new successful tracks.

Now all this is easier said then done no doubt, however it is the only way to not only enjoy our horses. It's the only way they will enjoy us as well. Nobody likes to be micro managed.

How many young colts have never developed into trusted horses because they were never allowed to prove that they could be, just that they aren't.

Pc Tracey Buyce Photography

11/18/2024

These are rookie numbers but the principal is still the same. I beg your finest pardon, sir, but I have yet to see this Ferarri you speak of?