Recent Blog Posts
What to Look for In a Boarding Barn
Do you own a horse or are you thinking about buying or leasing one? Do you need to find a boarding barn? Here are some questions that you will want to answer on your search for a boarding barn. How Much Does Board Cost? As it is with everything in life, you get what...
10 Traits Of An Ideal Riding Horse
10 qualities or traits of a good riding horse
Building Connection with Your Horse by Matching Steps
Life is busy, and sometimes scary. It’s easy to get caught up in the future. What will happen? What will we do? It’s so easy to get caught up in life that we feel disconnected from the things that we are most passionate about including our horses. Maybe you’ve been...
How to Improve Your Riding When You Can’t Ride
When Can I Ride Again? At the time of this writing, many of us are in a season with the COVID-19 shelter in place orders where we may not be able to even see our horses much less ride. Even if this pandemic has past, you may be in a situation where you...
14 Free Equestrian Videos When You Are Home Bound
At the writing of this post, the world is experiencing the Corona Pandemic that has affected everyone on the planet. We are all under some sort of order or "suggestion" to stay at home. Many of us are even unable to visit our horses as our barns and stables may be...
Finding the Gifts in Adversity
My computer crashed this week. I spent 4 hours at the Department of Motor Vehicles waiting to see a guy for a license renewal that took 3 minutes. My flight was 3 hours delayed, and on top of that, I’ve got some sort of mung that I probably picked up on the flight. ...
Discovering Your Passion
Hobby or Passion? Are horses a hobby or a passion for you? If you look up the word “hobby” in the dictionary, it says: a pursuit outside one's regular occupation engaged in especially for relaxation. An activity or interest pursued for pleasure or relaxation...
Time Really Does Fly When You’re Having Fun
When was the last time you said “time flies” or “I don’t have enough time” or “time’s running out” or even “I’m too old to do that”? I recently conducted a poll of riders over the age of 50 and asked them what were their biggest challenges. One of their top answers...
7 Safety Tips When Riding Your Horse
This post may contain affiliate links. Please read our disclosure for more info. While horseback riding is a wonderful sport, there are some inherent dangers associated with it. After all, you are sitting on a 1000 pound super sensitive prey animal that can be...
6 Barriers to Confidence in Your Riding
Do you find that you lack confidence with your horse or your riding? Would you like to ride with more confidence, but for some reason find yourself questioning your abilities? Does it seem like you are stuck and having a difficult time improving? What's going on may...
3 Powerful Questions to Accomplish Your Goals
I love the idea of the New Year. Getting a clean slate, setting new goals, starting over. But for some of us, the New Year represents disappointment. Disappointment with goals unfulfilled, dreams never started, everything we hoped to accomplish during the year and...
5 Skills You Need to Improve You’re Riding
Are you feeling stuck with the progress of your riding? Maybe you are feeling unmotivated or frustrated with your riding and unsure of how to move it forward. Maybe you’d like to take it up a level, to set some big goals and accomplish big things. The following five...