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This week I am answering the question from Claire. Do you have a specific question you would like to get answered? Feel free to send me a message through Facebook Messenger, Instagram Messenger, E-mail me at [email protected] or drop the question in the free Facebook Group. I reply...

When it comes to how we look at horses, we tend to have a main focus on one thing. This this is different for each person and can even change over time. It often depends what we're focusing on in our own learning journey. How is the horse moving? How is the horse mentally? Is the horse behaving...

For years and years I worked my horses according a certain ritual. First warm up and then I worked off the exercises. 'Doing' the exercises was always more important than the quality of the exercises, my horses response to these exercise and the sessions were always about 45 minutes. It got me...

For the last years I had so many conversations about kissing spines and kissing spine horses. About the journey and I've seen so many people walk the unique path with their horse. But for me, honestly, every journey should start here. The embarking of a new adventure, the start of a new path. By...

What is more cute than a young foal right? 

And if I can't ride my mare and I don't want to sell her because she means too much to me.. It's great to give her purpose as a mother, don't you think? Is it? Really? Or is it something to reconsider?

Your mare seems perfectly comfortable out in...

With the year coming to an end I would like to put an idea in your head. See it as a challenge.. My intention is to open the door to a different perspective. I hope you're open for this. It is a long read though!

So one of the things that has always bothered me about the equestrian world is how...

We kept on progressing!

After spending a few weeks doing the work in hand, I started introducing the lunging again. Without a chambon and sidereins. Just to see if we could bring some of that relaxation into the trot. You can see she is still not completely relaxing and stretching the...

I felt like giving up. After 6 months of lunging with barely any results I started to loose the fun of working with her. I gave her 2 months off during the summer where she could spend some time in the field. I had my hands full on the showseason with my Quarter mare Nikki. I was teaching a lot,...

Things were rusty and it made me feel down. I started to accept that I might not ever be able to ride this horse again. Though I knew I had bought a projecthorse, I felt like a failure that things weren't working out the way I wanted to. The opposites were huge. While Nikki was thriving, Pura was...

After 3 months of struggling with the riding I had enough. The osteopath had come back and she was still super sore on her back muscles. We took a look at her saddle and it turned out her saddle did not fit at all. A huge part of our problems came from that. Unfortunately my stubborness had also...

The first visit of the new instructor felt a bit strange. She first wanted to see Pura without a saddle to see how she looks. This was the first time anyone had said that to me, but it really showed me a new level how to approach a horse when you come for the first time. She explained to me that...

Polework is often recommended for horses with a kissing spine.. But did you know that it matters a lot 𝐇𝐎𝐖 the horse goed over the poles? In this post I will explain two different movements.

I recommend making videos of your training very often so you can see how your horse is moving so...

After discovering Pura her back was sore I had a new mission. Training her back muscles to become stronger. Little did I know how hard this was. I sat myself down behind my computer and started googling 'how to train the back muscles of the horse'. As it turned out there was no clear information...

If you've followed my free course '𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑒𝑔𝑠' you understand why it's so important to that the hind leg can swing freely underneath the body. The more the horse can make big strides, stepping underneath the body, the more the pelvis will tuck in and push the spine up.