A Driving Force Sport Horse Development

10/08/2025

Tuesday Tip — lunging to advance your horse!

When you send your horse out on a circle, there are many ways to make this time effective as opposed to simply expending energy running laps.

✨Shape — guide your horse to find a shape to work in on the line that compliments the way of going they require under saddle

✨Responsiveness — be aware and intentional of when and how you apply an aid or ask for a change (and going to neutral when they’re doing it)

✨Relationship — to self, to handler, to environment. Can they engage with your ask? Can they move their feet thoughtfully? Can they tune in regardless of the external stimuli?

✨Information — a time to see how your horse is moving, if there are any patterns, improvement or regression

✨Understanding — of an aid, learning a new one, clarifying one

What would you add to this list? This is certainly not a complete list but more a spark to the deeper thought on how to approach lunging.

10/07/2025

A Driving Force Sport Horse Development LLC goes beyond lessons and training.

✨ Empowering horses and their humans through horsemanship ✨

❤️‍🔥 Here to help you realize what you and your horse are capable of from the ground to the saddle

Ready to embark on a deeper partnership and develop a new connection to yourself and your horse?

📧 [email protected]
🔗 adrivingforcesporthorsedevelopment.com

Can’t wait to meet you and your equine partner! 🐴

10/05/2025

10/03/2025

This lovely 3 yr old did his first few liberty exercise reps! 💛

I love using liberty work as a part of their development process. It forces us to find ways to communicate and respond without pulling a rope and I find it so fun to dance together.

Do you blend liberty into your training?

10/02/2025

We are headed to Harrisburg next week with the big trailer- if you want any ponies to come from SWF on trial to the East Coast for you to arrange pick-up from Pennsylvania, now is the time to book!
Text Emily Elek- 920-889-0028.
The spreadsheet is updated daily! Smalls, Mediums, and Larges available of all levels and youngstock available.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14ITVMW-KjPCyGzxmOlVL578GUnUFcejL1oKKDVBAKJA

10/02/2025

⬅️ Transformations take time ➡️

They take attention to what the body is telling us,
How the mind is processing,
How emotions are coming up when certain things are requested or invited,
How energy gets held in the body and causes all kinds of things.

I am grateful to have some wickedly smart and talented mentors who I work with in person, talk things out with, and learn from regularly, blending methods, techniques for each individual equine in my program from groundwork to hands-on to posture work to under-saddle work.

My focus is and will be, on the horse and learning for the horse.

Keep learning,
Keep listening,
Keep meeting them where they’re at,
Guiding them to what they’re capable of,
On repeat.

If you’d like to experience this kind of whole horse transformation with your horse and feel yourself growing in understanding and skills, I’d love to connect. ❤️‍🔥

Reach out today at [email protected] or message the page. Learn more at adrivingforcesporthorsedevelopment.com.

10/01/2025

What would we hear from our horses if we slowed down a little bit more and zoomed out on the picture a little bit?

What might change in what we’re hearing from our horses? What we’re feeling? What we’re connecting?

They do say, no
I don’t understand
I can’t
I’m scared
I hurt
That’s hard

They also will say yes,
I trust you,
I’ll try,
I’m scared but you’re here,
It’s hard
but I will do, or at least try, it
For ✨you✨

When they feel as though they’re part of the team
With a voice
Honoring their brain and brilliance
They’ll show up even stronger
Than coerced through,
Shutdown, dissociated ones

They’ll question, thoughtfully
Instead of panic
And trust your guidance,
Instead of saving themself blindly.

When we honor their voice,
when we are willing to listen
not just speak,
The partnerships we’re developing are that much stronger. ❤️‍🔥