Equine Connection Freelance Training

10/08/2026

My third presentation at the Liberty Festival will be on Mindfulness with Horses.

When I teach my students how to do the postural work, what inevitably comes up is that even if they do all the physical actions "perfectly", if they are not grounded and congruent inside themselves, it's very challenging for the horse to feel safe inside the questions, and respond to us accordingly.

Our ability to be present in our own bodies and in shared moments with our horses is the key to anything and everything we might want to do with our horses.

We see again and again that horsemanship is really a cultivation of our truest nature so that we can show up for the horses, and has very little do about any skills that are unique and specific to interacting with the horses themselves.

It's asking ourselves if we come to the horses to escape our lives, or to live in wholeness. The later is where the healing is, for our horses and for ourselves.

10/07/2026

My second presentation at the Liberty Festival this weekend will be an arena demonstration on The Art of Classical In-Hand Work!

I considered bringing a horse that I have been training/rehabbing, but I decided it would be most valuable to present my process with a horse I have never worked with before, as I often do at my clinics. I'll be showing how I connect with and evaluate each horse, and let them guide me through the postural work and classical gymnastics as is nourishing for their unique minds, bodies, and spirits.

My work is not about perfecting and performing exercises and movements; it's about finding the version of each movement that is healing for the horse in front of me, and having a conversation through that movement. This conversation is the art.

Big thanks to Alaina Alderman for offering me your horse Griffin! I can't wait to meet him and see what I can offer him on Saturday!

10/06/2026

The first seminar I'll be teaching at the Liberty Festival is all about how the nervous system, posture, and biomechanics are inextricably linked. You'll come out of this lecture understanding why we cannot have tunnel vision and look at physical posture; we cannot ignore the emotional and mental characteristics that come with it. And also, that our horse's emotional and mental wellbeing are indeed necessary for healthy posture and movement. The focus of my work these days is postural rehabilitation-- helping the horse find emotional regulation, mental understanding of us and their domestic world, and a physical posture that promotes health, comfort, and longevity and opens up infinite possibilities for what we can do with our horses in partnership. Hope to see you there!

10/04/2026

I am so excited to host the amazing Anna Lewis of Embraced Soul at Sage Knoll Farm next month! This clinic program was truly transformative in it's debut in Aiken, and I'm thrilled to get to share this collaboration with my Kentucky community!

Facebook is now limiting the number of links a business can share per month to 2, and I've reached my limit, so you'll have to contact me to get the registration link!

10/04/2026

Here's the lineup of my presentations at the Liberty Festival next weekend! 2 are classroom seminars and one is an arena demonstration.

Check out the full schedule for other amazing presentations, including by some of my friends/collegues Anna Arunski of Howlin’ Revival Horsemanship, Cal Bulmash of Horse Massage by Cal, and JennyMarie Greenough of Rowdy Cowgirl Coaching and Raja Wellness!

Get your tickets here: https://www.libertyfestival.com/tickets

10/03/2026

Lizzy Keefauver of Engaging Equine NBD was generous enough to educate me on the findings in Tuffy’s skull and dental occlusion.

You can follow this whole case study on my Patreon for free!

Susan and I have completed the exhumation and are busy cleaning bones and organizing findings into a presentable form. I am so eager to get this work out there!

https://www.patreon.com/EquineConnectionFreelanceTraining/posts/171338664?utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=ios_share_custom

P.S., you can see Tuffy’s skull for yourself at the Liberty Festival next weekend 😉

Despite having had her teeth done by a veterinarian just a few months before her euthanasia, Tuffy’s teeth had countless pathologies going o

09/20/2026

What a fabulous group this is!! Finishing my lunch break, then back for the last few sessions of the clinic 🥰

09/18/2026

Packing up for my clinic in Cincinnati this weekend! I’m so excited— sounds like the horses and humans joining me will benefit from a deep dive into castration scars and hypermobility rehab in addition to the usual program of how the nervous system impacts how horses stand and move. I’ve really gone down the rabbit hole into both of those in recent years. Thanks Walnut Creek Acres LLC for hosting me! See you soon 🥰

09/11/2026

Check out the findings in Tuffy's right hind below the fetlock. Honestly, this was not a limb of particular concern to us. Tuffy was fairly stiff and tenderfooted all around, but this was the last place we expected to find major pathology. We found considerable bone loss, bruising all through the tissue and the coffin bone, a fractured P2, and high ringbone.

It's amazing what horses can cope with. They are so generous.

Check out my full write up in Patreon at the link below. You can follow her whole case study for free. Be sure and go back to read her history and see the front hoof dissections that I've posted.

So much more to come, Susan Miller and I are swimming in all the information her bones are giving us.

My posts on Tuffy are long overdue, as we've been so engrossed in exhuming and processing bones and researching what the findings all are! W