Carpe Diem Training

04/14/2025

Yup....pretty much!

😁 Yep!!

04/10/2025

Have you had the opportunity to ride in a Fun with Ground Poles Clinic? This fun and challenging clinic helps each rider and horse team learn how ground poles can benefit riding goals. These 90-minute small group lessons focus on different exercises and the benefits of each while learning how the body mechanics and alignment help both horse and rider advance their skills and connection. This is a great clinic to host at your barn, Pony Club event or 4H groups!
But maybe you are looking for something a bit smaller?? Why not offer a "Mini" Pole Clinic at your farm. This clinic focuses on each individual horse and rider's needs. These 60-minute private sessions cater to the individual's goal through a customize pole exercise. Want to work on stride length? I have a Ground Pole Exercise for that! What about bending and shoulder control? I have a Ground Pole Exercise for that! This is a great clinic for those who need a more specific focus and want to learn how ground poles can help them and their equine partner.
Check out my website for more details or contact me via Facebook Messager or at [email protected]
https://www.carpediemeqtraining.com/ground-poles
Happy Riding!!

03/30/2025

Today's giggle...🤣

03/12/2025

They do♥️

03/07/2025

Truth!

This!

02/24/2025

Excellent visual!

🐴DRESSAGE SOLUTIONS🐴 Understand How Crooked Riding Affects Your Horse ...

Load a wheelbarrow heavily to one side as in the center illustration. Now push the wheelbarrow, and feel how it pulls to the weighted side and how you are forced to lean in that direction to compensate. That’s how your horse feels when you sit unevenly in the saddle, as shown in the left image. When you sit evenly, the horse will be centered and balanced as shown in the illustration on the right.
— Sharon Sweet

02/23/2025

And again....♥️

02/15/2025

I hate the word "head set" for this reason...

01/12/2025

Happy New Year from Carpe Diem Training! Looking for a fun and challenging clinic for riders of all levels and disciplines? How about hosting a Fun with Ground Poles clinic at your facility? Learn how ground pole work benefits both horse and rider in a clinic that welcomes all types of equestrians. From competition horses to young horses to riders that just want to learn new skills, this is the clinic for you! Currently putting together the 2025 schedule so grab a spot for your farm! Not enough riders to host a full clinic? Check out Carpe Diem Training's "Mini" Ground Pole Sessions for the small farms. For more information go to:
https://www.carpediemeqtraining.com/ground-poles
or email me at [email protected]

01/02/2025

Please read....

The use of horses historically should be a clear sign that we can, in fact, force horses to do our bidding and that the creation of the society we live in today was largely reliant on that.

People like to claim that you cannot force a horse to do something they don’t want to do.

This implies that if we can get them to do something, I means they wanted to.

This is a dangerous connotation because it justifies any means to an end, provided the horse complies.

Horses didn’t “want” to go to war.

They didn’t “want” to work in mines.

They haven’t “wanted” to work through injuries and illnesses, which you can bet they absolutely had to back in the day as work horses and still do today even in their use as animals for leisure.

They are animals that want to choose the path of least resistance and try to seek harmony.

They often initially do try to communicate their lack of desire to do certain tasks by balking, bolting, bucking, rearing, refusing, trying to avoid being caught etc…

But, if the response to this by the human involves the horse being more scared, more forced or more uncomfortable in the absence of compliance, they pretty quickly realize that complying is the more comfortable route.

Aka the path of least resistance.

This isn’t to say horses cannot give a willing yes to certain tasks.

But we need to be honest about the fact that you can absolutely force them to do things they don’t want to do and that this has been proven again and again historically.

For hundreds and hundreds of years.

Humans have capitalized off of the docile nature of horses and how easy it actually is to force them to do our bidding, oftentimes without severe injury on the part of the human.

There are a lot of animals that would respond to the level of force imposed on horses with aggression if we attempted to handle them that way.

Horses seldom opt for aggression and this has been of major benefit for people because it makes them easier to exploit.

So, yes, you can absolutely force horses to do things they don’t want to do.

And, if anything, that just further exemplifies the gentle nature of the horse.

Let’s not take that for granted.

And let’s most certainly not let ourselves off the hook by taking the easy way out and pretending that any time a horse does something for us, it means they wanted to do it.

This mindset can and is used to justify a lot of abuse, whether you personally handle your horse in an abusive manner or not.

Perpetuating this sentiment can be used to push the logic that if the horse ends up complying, the pressure to get that compliance cannot be abusive because if the horse didn’t want to they wouldn’t.

Horses have done a lot for humans against their will.

We can show our appreciation for this by acknowledging that sacrifice and appreciating the nature of the horse, while being more cognizant of our horsemanship

12/12/2024

❤️❤️❤️❤️

12/07/2024

♥️Yes♥️

11/19/2024

A new Fun with Ground Poles exercise! How many different lines do you see??

11/02/2024

Fantastic lesson under the lights with the amazing ladies of Sun Fire Stables! So much fun to watch the lovely Clydesdales in such harmony. It is lessons like this that make me love my job.♥️

10/31/2024

Happy Halloween from Carpe Diem Training!🎃🐴🎃🐴

10/31/2024

Love it when my clients dress up for their lessons around Halloween!!🎃 Pirate Sarah and Ember!☠️