by Ashley Forlie | Oct 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
What do you feel like to your horse? When you’re grooming them? When you’re at the end of the lead rope? When you’re on their back? When you’re holding the reins? Years ago, my otherwise agreeable mare started lifting her back leg and threatening to kick when I would...
by Ashley Forlie | Aug 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
As I swung my leg over her back she started backing up and threatening to buck. Her back was humped up and her mind was thinking backward and up. She was not accepting and softly standing to be mounted. Even though she had pulled up easily to the mounting block her...
by Ashley Forlie | Aug 17, 2021 | Uncategorized
Taking a riding lesson or being in any sort of learning environment with a horse can be exciting, fun, progressive, boring, difficult, stressful, scary, and frustrating. I’ve seen all of those emotions and have felt some of them myself in a learning situation. The...
by Ashley Forlie | Aug 5, 2021 | Uncategorized
I walk fast. Everywhere I go, I walk fast. Guess what? My horses walk fast too. Did I create that or am I drawn to it? Do my horses like to walk fast, or are they reluctantly keeping up with me all of the time? Recently, I was leading one of my student’s horses from...
by Ashley Forlie | Jul 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
Her picture caught my attention immediately. She was a lean, yet powerful, light bay with two hind socks, and a thick white stripe down her face. Her eye looked soft and kind. Her ears were alert and her expression was curious. The video of her being ridden at the...
