JT Training and Sales LLC

18/11/2024

🤣❤️🤣❤️ this pony was put in our path to help me remember to laugh again. If you ever want to put a sure fire smile on my face, let me jump a pony! Weeee!!! 😁😁😁
And hes just so silly and snuggly! 💙💙💙

03/11/2024

Feel and compulsive talking

Developing feel means adjusting to the needs of the moment. It means being aware and present enough to take in and read the environment, and provide just the right amount of everything: If more energy or less is appropriate, if being still or being active is right, and so on. It gets deeper and deeper until it becomes the difference in the height of one finger or the depth of a breath.

Many of us have a way we “are” and struggle to adjust. I’m quite energetic, and when I was younger especially, I struggled with story telling. The deep seated insecurity drove me to feel the need to feel relevant and important, especially at times when the insecurity felt pressed on: when skill wasn’t present, or when others were quiet, or when I misread a situation. The talking filled a space that was empty for me, that, or freezing.

Luckily, I’ve been on the other end of it and gained better control - as a teacher I’ve been blessed to have students who struggled with compulsive talking. Sometimes it can be hard to even get a word of instruction in, even during important moments, due to compulsive talking and story telling. It’s helped me see it from all angles and understand it better - when do they do it and why? Similar to me, it is most uncontrolled when they feel insecure or worried.

The challenge of working with horses is to not limit ourselves to just “how we are.” If we are energetic, sometimes that’s not appropriate, and we need to learn to be still. If we’re chatty, that can often rob our ability to read a situation because it pulls all our energy back to ourselves.

To learn to dial up, and then back - to not get fixated on just one way of being when the world calls for every option under the sun. We may need to switch within a moments notice and back - and to learn this skill, we have to challenge ourselves to change.

I’ve found it immensely helpful to think of it outside of the window of shame: to look at a flaw as a potential source of growth instead of a weakness. Sometimes our greatest weaknesses can turn into our greatest strengths with practice, but if we feel shame about the “way we are,” and confuse it with WHO we are, we can get stuck.

Finding others to emulate in example is invaluable too. Spend time watching them walk, talk, and move. For this to soak in, we have to be quiet.

03/11/2024

Why walk when a little Bluey is so much more fun to jump on for turnout/in. Have I mentioned how much I love this little buddy!
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27/10/2024

Don't be afraid to try new things! It's good for you and your horse! What a blast!

18/10/2024

17/10/2024

Drivin the Mega truck today for a load of yum yums for the ponies! ❤️

15/10/2024

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it’s not important that you never make a mistake, that’s unrealistic and damaging to growth. The most important part is how you recover : you commit to yourself to regroup and start over, because you deserve it. And you commit to the horse to regroup and start over, because they deserve it. You’re teaching them too that it’s ok to make mistakes, and how to rebalance.

Mistakes are life. Go forward, and rebalance.

12/10/2024

Self loading, tying, and standing refresher. I haven't been anywhere in a while, but I'm slowly getting my confidence back and getting ready to venture out. Super excited about this show string, and the old man will get to go out and play soon too. ❤️

24/08/2024

This❣️

"It doesn't take a lot when it’s a learning process and not a worrying process." - Tom Dorrance

Saw this the other day, a great one for us goal oriented folks to keep in our minds, always.

Happy Friday,
✌️Kalley

22/08/2024

Love getting photos of happy clients and horses. Here is miss crystal and her kiddo enjoying a nice night.
Crystal was a rescue and a bit pushy as she was older and had not been asked to do anything but be a pasture puff. She has come along quite nicely after going to a different trainer first for a whole lot more money and accomplished nothing.
💥 More expensive does not always mean better quality!
💥 Trainers, please charge accordingly and be sure you can follow through or you're only hurting the horse.

❤️Here at JT the horse is ALWAYS more important than money or status quo! ❤️

22/08/2024

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If you feel your upper body leaning to the right, I PROMISE it’s because your hips have slid to the left.
PLEASE step into your RIGHT stirrup!!!!
I know some instructors tell people to step into the left stirrup, and that does straighten things up, but it doesn’t fix the off-centeredness!!!!

14/08/2024

👋Hey Ya'll, I've got some availability for training/lessons.
Haul in or I can come to you!

Specializing in:
*Groundwork
*Starting under saddle
*Tune-ups
*Desensitizing
*Showing/coaching hunters and all-around pleasure
*Lessons
Covering Richlands-Newport-New Bern-Hampstead areas

Send a message to learn more

27/07/2024

Early morning Olympic watching❤️🤍💙

21/07/2024

Happy sleepy ponies❤️🤣🥱