Great Heights Stable

08/21/2025

It is so quiet here this week without all our Girls from Camps.

Ladies, we all miss you! The horses are lonely and we miss all the energy you bring here.

What a wonderful summer with all of you though. Despite unbelievable heat (110 in the arena consistently!! What!!), I can’t imagine another way to have spent it than with you all. I am so proud of everyone’s grit at facing heat and bugs while stilll being open to learning as much as we could about our horses.

All of us truly loved having everyone here and wish you all a happy end of summer and luck for fall!

Enjoy this Spectacular video Bri made:

08/13/2025

You can see horses working hard to compensate for riders that aren’t fit or balanced on top.
If we ask athleticism from them, I feel we owe them ours.💪🏻

07/29/2025

Brilliantly Stated, as always.

Neuroscientists have discovered that repeated stress actually changes the brain's structure.

Like kindling makes a fire easier to start, repeated reactive episodes make the amygdala increasingly sensitive.

It begins to react faster to perceived threats and see danger in previously neutral stimuli.

This culmination means that the amygdala is able to override the thinking brain more easily and create stronger stress hormone releases.

This is why reactivity tends to worsen over time without intervention.

It's not failure of yours but of the approach trying to train reactive behaviour away and repeated failure of the method, because we can't control the environment.

Increasing reactivity is the brain protecting itself by becoming more hypervigilant!

When reactivity seems to get worse it’s because they are caught in a biochemical cycle that makes every small stress exponentially more overwhelming.

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07/17/2025

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07/17/2025

This is very important I think. It’s like every behavior we can observe- there is a whole layer of other considerations that need to factor in to our interpretation of it. The energetic feel is always a good starting place to find out what emotion is attached.
With releases, the thing that still blows my mind is that I can offer oils that facilitate long term tension release and the horse start stretching, wiggling, and yawning cathartically all while I sit on a stool never having touched them once.
It’s like real life Magic🪄

07/16/2025

This is what people experience and explore when they ride here.

Admission: I LOVE my adult lessons for this very reason because these concepts can be so deeply investigated.

Knowing these things- having the body awareness of yourself, your horse and your relation to the environment is what can make horses feel safe and become easy to talk to. It’s a new language!

Calling all adults- Come ride with us and learn about this not just for your horsemanship, but all your relationships.
💕💕💕

07/16/2025

This girl! From itchy and worried to cuddly and relaxed! Such a good pup!

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07/15/2025

This is fantastic!