Hoofbeat Attunement

03/13/2025

Howdy! My name is Matney Cook and I teach Hoofbeat Attunement, a blend of ethical and effective horsemanship and training techniques I've learned and practiced for nearly 20 years professionally. I have experience and success working with all breeds, disciplines, and ages of horse and rider to create harmony between species as well as achievement of goals. Last fall I relocated my business to the Snohomish area and come April I will have a few, rare openings in my schedule to offer my services to more clientele!

Services available:

🐎 Remote Lessons- whether you're early on in your partnership development or many years into enjoying your horse, I can solidify and progress you and your horses skills on line, at liberty, in the saddle in an arena and on the trail. I can share how to customize your techniques to best suit your horses unique needs as well as adapt your leadership style to suit any horse you work with.

🐎 Remote Training - from getting started under saddle and tune ups to problem solving and filling holes in a horses understanding of their role in partnership, this immersive learning for your horse can enhance their progress and bring them into comprehension on line, at liberty, and in the saddle on a loose rein and on a finesse rein.

🐎 Consultation- I can offer advisement and education on a wide range of equine related subjects including but not limited to horse property and boarding facility development and management, starting up and growing a business as an instructor and trainer, preparing to lease or purchase a new horse, and more!

For more information about my credentials, philosophy and rates visit my website www.hoofbeatattunement.com

To get on my schedule before it fills up again, email me at [email protected]

In the meantime, happy trails to you!

Hoofbeat Attunement congruous horsemanship that’s mutually beneficial and effective Greetings and welcome! My name is Matney Cook and I offer partnership based horse training, lessons and coaching that blend a variety of natural horsemanship techniques with Equine Facilitated Learning exercises. T...

10/07/2024

Hello and happy fall to you and your herd ❤️🎃🐴

Chassis, Redi and I hope to see you around sometime soon 🤩

05/25/2024

This looks like an amazing opportunity to commune with horses and all of nature. Check it out!

Please join us for this amazing workshop. Contact Eagles Rising for more information.

Email presenter at: [email protected]

Register for: https://mailchi.mp/05179ca46305/horsecirclejune24

05/17/2024

I have been part of the amazing team working with this lovely mare for years now and I think the world of her as a partner. Please share this ad with anyone you know who may be interested so she can find her next partner!

08/14/2023

Summertime greetings and keep cool wishes to you all! It's been a fun and full season for us and I'm pleased to get a minute to share some photos by Sister and Sister Photography and Events of our Partnership Strengthening Clinic at Westside Stables earlier this year. It was a lovely weekend of connection, communication and community! How much better can it get?

I'll be teaching one more Partnership Strengthening Clinic this year in Washington at Dayton Arena in Bow on September 23&24. Message me here or email me at [email protected] for more details and to sign up to participate or get information on coming to audit.

04/11/2023

Here's another one of the new educational events Caitlin and I will be facilitating this year. We're so grateful to be partnering with Little Bit Therapeutic Riding Center and offering our work to one of the populations they serve.

Little Bit is excited to announce an upcoming unmounted workshop in partnership with Hoofbeat Attunement. This two hour interactive workshop is open to riders in the Adaptive Program who wish to develop communication skills through learning to understand and communicate with horses. The clinic will

03/23/2023

Here's another fantastic first in my work this year- partnering with Bridgid Roney, Parenting Support for an awareness deepening parenting workshop! See details below for cost, dates, and sign up information.

Exploring Fear, Trust and Partnership with the Unknown.

03/16/2023

Are you interested in participating in our upcoming Partnership Strengthening Clinic but having difficulty with funding? Check out this exciting opportunity to win a scholarship!

Find date, time and meeting information for our regular Board of Directors' meetings, along with details about other SAIN events.

01/31/2023

The new year sure is off to an exciting and fruitful start for Caitlin and I, how about for you?

If you're still looking for an enriching experience to add to your schedule for the year there is still room in our upcoming 3 part series and weekend workshop. Come join us!

Here is what a couple of our previous participants had to share about their experiences.

12/19/2022

Merry Holidays to you and yours! May this time of reflection, connection and quiet bring you much inspiration and clarity to step into the upcoming year with confidence and grace!

Caitlin and I are very excited to announce the dates for a couple of our workshop offerings in 2023, including:

1) Our 3 part series on Connection, Communication and Partnership with horses begins with Part 1 March 25-26. This experience of work as a group will span 6 months in which we will meet for 3 weekends and three different locations to fully immerse ourselves in horse time and teachings.

2) Our Introduction to Connection and Communication with Horses workshop at Fay Ranch in Duvall, WA April 15-16. This workshop offers a blend of classroom and hands on time with horses in an experiential learning format and benefits the feel and awareness of any level of horseperson.

Take a look at these two fliers for more details about each offering and send us an email at [email protected] with any questions or to sign up! In addition, we have more workshops in the making so stay tuned for dates to our Continuing Mastery workshop for those who have come to learn with us before!

11/12/2022

Wow, what a year it has been! As the season turns to the last of 2022 I find myself filled with gratitude and hope in response to reflecting on all that came to pass this year. Caitlin and I tried a couple new formats and locations and of course it didn't all go quite as planned, but the journey to discovering what the moments had to teach was very rich indeed!

One of the new formats we tried out was a 3 part series of workshops taking participants all the way from skills to begin an interaction with an equine to developing and experiencing a partnership with a horse in hand and under saddle. Here's our first group of participants on the last day of the final workshop. I think those smiles say it all! It was an amazing and empowering experience for me as a teacher to say the least and I took away a renewed sense of curiosity and awe at all that horses inspire and offer to us through connection, communication and partnership.

Caitlin and I have begun planning our workshop offerings for 2023 and will announce more about our plans very soon so those of you feeling called to join us can get signed up! What I can share at this time is that our offerings will include:

*a 3 part series
*an intro to connection and communication with horses
*a continuing mastery workshop for those who have already attended one or more with us before
*a monthly group lesson for youth
*online educational offerings

Stay tuned for more Hoofbeat Attunement opportunities in 2023 and beyond! May the turn of the seasons and year bring you all much clarity, inspiration, warmth, and alignment to step into the new year with grace and strength!

With love, Matney

08/31/2022

I am honored to take part in some incredible and inspiring horsemanship journeys in my 15+ years of working as an instructor and trainer. This year I'll be sharing some stories about the wide range of students of the horse I work with to celebrate the unique ways horses influence and encourage connection and learning.

Client Spotlight #3🌟 Devon Stone, PATH CTRI and ESMHL 🌟

Devon is a long time equestrian as well as equine professional working as a PATH Certified Therapeutic Riding Instructor and Equine Specialist in Mental Health and Learning.

We first met at her place of employment, Little Bit Therapeutic Riding Center, when I attended a PATH ESMHL workshop there back in 2017. In my time as an intern then full time instructor at Little Bit she was a powerful supporter of my learning and a fantastic co worker! She is an incredibly talented instructor and mentor as well as fun person to be around in general.

As time went on of course we talked all about horses and life and especially ground handling and training techniques, methodologies and ideas. We worked together while I was employed at Little Bit to help support members of their herd better understand and enjoy their jobs and found we had much in common as far as our basic values when being and working with horses. Her interest in adding to and refining her communication abilities with horses on the ground led her into coming to take lessons with me a couple times a month starting back in 2020 and continues to this day.

It's a real delight for me to support fellow equine professionals in continuing their education and refining their techniques as there is always more to learn in a field as rich and diverse as working with horses! Devon, your enthusiasm and curiosity as a learner is an inspiration to many, especially me!

06/25/2022

I'm incredibly grateful to Ken McNabb Horsemanship for how they helped me develop a solid foundation to achieve the level of partnership and connection with any horse I work with today 💕 here's an example!

06/23/2022

How much better can it get? I'm proud to have studied under Ken McNabb Horsemanship and I look forward to riding with him again any chance I get! 🙏❤️🙏

Many thanks to my amazing mama Terri Cook for getting me started on this empowering journey with horses so many years ago.

05/19/2022

On a blustery day back in late April my amazingly talented and fun friend Meagan Spitler of Sister and Sister Photography and Events came down to Fay Ranch and distilled some of the moments I had working with Chassis and Redi into these images. I'm so pleased with how they all turned out and I highly recommend her photography services to immortalize your magical memories! Thank you Meagan!