Equine Performance Solutions

Anyone who has talked to me about posture and movement has most likely heard me talk about poll flexion and the difference between longitudinal and lateral flexion of the poll.

Poll flexion is one of those things many riders don’t fully understand, yet it has a huge impact on a horse’s ability to align their spine and lift the base of the neck.

In an attempt to create a “round frame” and lift the back, riders often focus on lowering the head and bringing the nose in toward the chest (don't get me started on draw reins, neck stretchers etc... ) To the untrained eye, the frame may look correct… but what often happens is the base of the neck gets pushed down and the cervicothoracic junction becomes jammed up, preventing the horse from lifting through the withers and back and flexing the lumbosacral joint.

The result is a horse that is unable to soften and balance, which over time tends to create chronic body soreness, compensatory patterns, recurring hind-end discomfort, and all kinds of issues in thoracic inlet.

If, on the other hand, you can teach a horse how to align themselves and how to stabilize and lift the base of the neck, they can achieve both vertical and horizontal balance. The brace along the topline starts to disappear, and that constant body soreness often improves or even resolves!

And yes, this absolutely applies to tight-backed OTTBs and kissing spine horses as well.

Without proper spinal alignment, every junction along the axial skeleton is put under stress!

This clip is a small glimpse into how I play with lateral poll flexion inside my Equine Posture & Movement Training course.

It’s finally live! 🥳
What started as an idea to upload a few videos for clients, to help them remember what we worked on after movement sessions, evolved into something much bigger.

What I realized was that so many horse owners, especially those with kissing spine horses or horses struggling with performance, felt overwhelmed because they were trying to figure everything out at once:

How to control their horse, what to look for, what was happening in the body, what needed to change, and how to create that change.

It was overwhelming!

So in this class, I break it all down.
🤓 I walk you through the way I see horses and teach the anatomy in a way that applies to the everyday horse owner. Not just professionals.

From there we start with the movement patterns.
I show you:

✅ The tools I like to use and how I use them
✅ How to introduce the in-hand patterns
✅ What each pattern is designed to improve
✅ How to combine them into work in hand at a distance
✅ How to influence movement, balance, stability, posture, and spinal alignment
✅ How to use your own property, like hills, uneven ground and terrain, to improve proprioception and strength

Then we take that work back under saddle and apply the same principles in the ridden work.

🦄 One of my favorite parts of the course follows Wilma and her horse Kyon.
When they first came to me, Kyon had started refusing to move forward under saddle. Wilma had lost her confidence after several falls and was considering selling him and even quitting horses altogether.

✨ In this section, you’ll follow their journey from the beginning as Wilma learns the in-hand work and starts rebuilding Kyon’s movement and confidence. You’ll see how we worked through his stickiness, got him to unlock, and helped him move forward willingly again.

The course also includes several complex case studies where I break down the challenges, the process, what I learned, and what I would do differently now.

This course comes with lifetime access, and I’ll continue adding to it as I grow and work with more horses.

Because I still have a few pieces left to add, I’m offering it at a Founding Member price of $349 until July 15.
After that, the price will increase to $449.

So if you’d like to try something different... Come join me in this class!

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