LK HorseSense

Sensible horsemanship starting with ground work and working up to the saddle.

10/27/2025

Couldn’t have asked for more perfect weather or people and horses to spend the weekend with. Hours of groundwork, tons of questions, lots of laughs and encouragement. This is what horsemanship is about!

10/16/2025

When you haven’t been able to ride for months on end, the feeling when your butt hits that saddle for the first time is special. “I feel so tall.” That’s the first thing I said. It felt like home.

I didn’t do much other than walk around with some trot steps, even skipped my groundwork hoping for more time in the saddle before my baby woke up from his stroller nap. Much to my surprise my Big Mare, Jade, didn’t miss a beat. She was right where I left her, power walk and all. She felt happy to be doing something and looked at peace after our ride and teaching a lesson together.

09/25/2025

In this season of life, lessons look a little different, and no doubt harder. But it will be short lived and then I’ll look back on this picture and miss it. Thank you to my clients for their never ending patience and understanding, and to my coworkers for their unwavering support and help with both my kids and my horses.
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09/21/2025

“Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, one will have to accept that one’s life will be radically changed.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
A photo series me, pregnant and teaching. Then very pregnant and teaching (with Cinch the barn cat) and my swivel stool. And last week, two weeks postpartum teaching a lesson with Wilder.

09/14/2025

We welcomed our beautiful baby boy September 2nd. Wilder Andrew is the perfect addition to our family. We are soaking in newborn snuggles and getting into our routine and looking forward to teaching lessons together soon.

08/29/2025

So happy to be able to help Phoebe Moll with this lovely young horse raised by Katherine Elizabeth Michels ❤️

08/24/2025

I’ve been a bit neglectful of my business page, here is my 39 week pregnant teaching uniform. 😂 People are surprised I’m still at it, but I would be so bored if I couldn’t teach lessons! I’m more than happy to still be able to share my knowledge and I think when I can’t ride it makes my teaching more creative. Hoping to be sharing baby news soon. Thanks for the picture Michelle!

07/17/2025

Alice’s second time getting trimmed with the grinder, stood like an old pro. So impressed with her, especially since she’s basically just sitting around for a second pregnancy break.

07/03/2025

My favorite duo! Mother Amy and daughter Lauren. I have known these two for 17 years. Which is wild to say out loud. Lauren learned to ride on Rose all of those years ago at Bay Harbor, her mom Amy has forever been one of my barn mothers, more than just a client. Amy is now Rose’s main caregiver, and I love when Lauren comes home from Utah she always wants a lesson.

Today so many things connected for her. “Wow! I’m so much more aware of my body than when I was six! Seat bones make way more sense now!” It was such a fun lesson with lots of laughs and “ah ha!” Moments. And so many happy feels as Amy cantered 32 year old Rose around the arena. These are the days that bring me absolute joy and remind me how much I love my career.

06/25/2025

Pretty neat to hand a horse over to my six year old that used to be a “problem horse” and watch her shrink to her level. Whenever horses come in that are a little too tiptoed around, I always say they need to have Willa mess with them. Because when we are too particular, too quiet or too careful it can make the horse more edgy than they need to be. Kids just flap around and are loud and imperfect and horses need that more sometimes than the ladder. Loud people make quiet horses, and vice versa.

06/22/2025

My long time client was wearing this shirt during her lesson the other day and I love it. Seems so fitting to have on while at the barn or spending anytime around horses. Because it’s so true, there (shouldn’t be) any bad days at the barn. That’s a mind set we learn to live by because with horses we must be present and forget about whatever noise is going on in the world. No bad days!

06/11/2025

Sitting on the sidelines watching everyone after organizing and getting this clinic together was equally hard for me as it was satisfying to be a part of. I’ve known Kip for a while, and after riding with him in a Buck clinic last year I was excited to ask him to come to Rising Hope.

Shortly after we got the dates set I found out I was pregnant with my fourth baby. I was elated, and then instantly sad because I knew I would be too pregnant to ride in it. This is not the first time I have hosted a clinic while pregnant, which presents a host of difficulties in and of itself…But this clinic felt different, I had slew of students in it and a good bunch of our school horses too. I was more than happy to share my host spot with my incredible working student who more than earned it.

I also never mind sitting on the other side of the fence, listening, watching, taking notes and soaking in every moment that I could. And there is always another clinic.

Also, didn’t realize I’d been MIA from my page for almost two months until I went to post this…

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2787 Quick Road
Harbor Springs, MI
49740

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+12318388498

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https://www.lkhorsesense.com/

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