The Farm at Caim Knoll

06/10/2025

Are you in a balanced position when you ride? Grab a friend and have them sna a picture Shoulder, hip and heel should be in a vertical line

06/08/2025

When you stock up on off the field bales and you run out of room in your hay shed! 😬

06/06/2025

Great article!! Using your seat and stepping into your stirrup

06/06/2025

Super great article about using your seat and stepping into your stirrup for movement of your horse

05/26/2025

Body clip for Miss Sadie who has Cushings. She started grooming me 1/2 way thru

05/25/2025

05/24/2025

Why do riding instructors tell students that what other instructors taught them was wrong? My approach- tell students there are many ways to do something, not all work with each horse, so put everything you learn into your training box The more you learn the better you can handle different situations

05/23/2025

Bit informational

05/13/2025

I’ve been having inner ear issues and constantly dizzy but I needed my horse time so I got on my big guy and just walked. Straightness was at a premium but you can’t have everything. We saw two Pilated woodpeckers creating a ruckus and he didn’t bat an eye. Startled the crap out of me but not Maserati He has come so far.

05/12/2025

My students present to herself- a Mother’s Day lesson!! Working on keeping hands steady, even and over the horses shoulders; steering with our seat and legs and not dropping a shoulder at the turn.

05/11/2025

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY from The Farm at Caim Knoll

05/11/2025

Relax, nothing is under control-

One thing I have learned as an extremely important life skill, is to let go and trust that my gut will guide me.
As a teacher who regularly gets ten snorty horses in the same space, as a caretaker of 14 horses with many behavioral issues, as a mother to two spicy daredevil children, as a human being on the planet, I have rarely found worrying and trying to control to be effective or helpful at all.

Finding the calm in the chaos- to learn to find the pause in the noise. There is something inside you that knows what to do. Your intellect can only take you so far. Your mind can be a liar and lead you astray like a siren to a ship, crashing into the rocks. The something inside will guide you through, if you let go, and wake up.

Practice, learn theory, develop skill- these things can’t be neglected. Do your due diligence, and then breathe into the chaos. I don’t mean to get in over your head on purpose, or livr a purposely chaotic life- i mean when things get hairy, as they often do, worry steals your precious energy from being able to see - breathe to quiet the worry, open your eyes, and follow the inside voice.