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Rim Rider show #1 and #2 May 30th and 31st - ENTRIES are OPEN!💫🤩🦄Shows #3 and #4 are scheduled for Sept 26th and 27t...
05/09/2026

Rim Rider show #1 and #2 May 30th and 31st - ENTRIES are OPEN!💫🤩🦄
Shows #3 and #4 are scheduled for Sept 26th and 27th

Please contact Tessa ([email protected]) if you are interested in Volunteering!

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Our Honorable Judge is: Rebecca Algar USAWE Senior Judge
Technical Delegate is: Ashley Bowers
Show Managers are: Vicki Clayton and Tessa Nicolet

Facility Address is: Patterson Training LLC - 272 S. Sprague Dr, Star Valley AZ
Overnight UNCOVERED PANEL pens are available for $20 a night
Overnight DRY camping is available for $20 a night

Show Fees are:
Level 1 entry - $165
Level 2 -7 entries - $200
If you enter both shows with the same equine at the same level - fees for the second show are:
Level 1 entry - $150
Level 2 -7 entry - $185

We don't build trust by offering help. We build trust by asking for it.I'll be honest - when I first heard Simon Sinek s...
04/18/2026

We don't build trust by offering help. We build trust by asking for it.

I'll be honest - when I first heard Simon Sinek say that, my reaction was "that can't be right." Everything I'd been taught pointed the other direction. Be capable. Be reliable. Don't burden people. Figure it out yourself.

And then Brene Brown said it too! - Crap, I better think about this!

But the more I sat with it - and the more I brought it into the barn - the more I realized how much my ‘be self reliant’ operating system was costing me. In my relationships. In my community. And in the saddle.

Episode 8 of The Balance Point is out now. And I think it might change how you look at some of your most frustrating moments in the barn.

"Don't Be Selfish: Stop Helping, Start Asking."
find The Balance Point wherever you listen to podcasts.
https://www.cohesivehorsemanship.com/podcasts/cohesive-horsemanship-balance-point

04/11/2026

Gambel turns 6 days old today!!!

Andalusian Dam - Mariposa PBH (thank you Amy Star!)
Morgan Sire - RG Gus McCrae

This one I plan to keep! :)

Every time you ride, you are speaking a language.Your seat, your leg, your hand, your breath - they are words. And like ...
04/09/2026

Every time you ride, you are speaking a language.
Your seat, your leg, your hand, your breath - they are words. And like any language, they only make sense when they are consistent. When the grammar holds.
When we change the structure - when the same aid means something different on Tuesday than it did on Saturday - we are not speaking a language anymore. We are making noise. And our horses, as brilliant as they are, cannot learn from noise. They can only guess at it.

Episode 7 of The Balance Point is all about what it really takes to build clarity in your communication - with your horse and with the people in your life.
Come take a listen.
https://www.cohesivehorsemanship.com/podcasts/cohesive-horsemanship-balance-point

Does this resonate with you? Where do you find it hardest to stay consistent in your communication?

We talk a lot about being soft. Being patient. Giving our horses time and space.But there is a version of that - a cou...
04/07/2026

We talk a lot about being soft. Being patient. Giving our horses time and space.
But there is a version of that - a counterfeit version - that is not actually kindness at all.

It is ambiguity dressed up as gentleness.

And our horses pay the price for it every single time.

This is one of the ideas at the heart of Episode 7 of The Balance Point. True softness is not the absence of clarity. It requires it.

Have a listen. https://www.cohesivehorsemanship.com/podcasts/cohesive-horsemanship-balance-point

What comes up for you when you read this? I would love to hear your thoughts in the comments.

We have been celebrating the wrong thingEpisode 6 of The Balance Point is live. And it is about the boring truth we have...
03/27/2026

We have been celebrating the wrong thing

Episode 6 of The Balance Point is live. And it is about the boring truth we have been overlooking. https://www.cohesivehorsemanship.com/podcasts/cohesive-horsemanship-balance-point

In this episode I bring Martin Gutmann's insight into the arena and sit with what it actually means to choose the Amundsen path in our horsemanship. I talk about the classical principle of preparation before action, rooted in the tradition of French master Baucher. I share the story of a deeply braced horse - a jaw that would not release, and the quiet, incremental work that opened it. And I share something personal about three words my best friend's father once said to us wild teenage girls that have taken me a lifetime of small moments to begin to understand.

I also spend time with Nuno Oliveira's wisdom from Reflections on Equestrian Art - the idea that resistance in horses is never defiance but always information, and that the good rider is not the one who pushes through but the one who knows how to go back.

And building on what we explored in Episode 3, I draw the distinction between a productive struggle and an unproductive one. Struggle is only unproductive when the pieces are not yet there. When they are, a little reaching is exactly right. Reading the difference between those two things is the art of good horsemanship. And good living.

Putting the pieces together for that preparation is exactly what I teach in the Cohesive Foundations course. Look for an awesome opportunity to dive into that soon! 🙂

The real breakthrough never looks like a breakthrough. It looks like nothing. And that nothing is everything.

Listen to Episode 6 here! https://www.cohesivehorsemanship.com/podcasts/cohesive-horsemanship-balance-point

Management historian Martin Gutmann calls this the action fallacy - our tendency to confuse a good story with genuine ex...
03/27/2026

Management historian Martin Gutmann calls this the action fallacy - our tendency to confuse a good story with genuine excellence. He tells the story of two polar explorers: Roald Amundsen, the most successful polar explorer in history, largely forgotten. Ernest Shackleton, disaster-prone, celebrated in twenty-six books. We keep choosing the wrong one.

Episode 6 of The Balance Point is live. And it is about the boring truth we have been overlooking - in the arena and in our lives. https://www.cohesivehorsemanship.com/podcasts/cohesive-horsemanship-balance-point

Amundsen. Baucher. A braced jaw that softened. Three words a friend's father once said to a group of wild teenage girls. And why preparation before action is the most profound thing I know.

Something is also building quietly at Cohesive Horsemanship this spring. More soon.

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