Lasting Strides Equine

When life gives you puddles - remind yourself this life is supposed to be fun! 🥳

Mounted Water-shooting, mounted fishing challenge (not pictured), and horse painting! Beautiful way to spend a hot afternoon 🥰

The Young Riders have been taking advantage of the long, warm evenings and spending so much time out at the barn lately. The sight of young horse people enjoying quality time out here is my favorite 🖤

Want to join our crew? Come get certified through our EAL Canada wrangler certification course! Learn how to assist our coaches with Equine Assisted Wellness programs, what your role as a wrangler is in a professional setting, and earn your certificate to gain access to our exclusive group of wranglers to keep up with volunteer and paid opportunities around the farm! This course goes over a brief history of EAL, codes of conduct/ethics, and our barn's philosophy and mission. You'll also get some practical hands-on work with the horses to prepare you for working with our clients and your role as a wrangler in each type of session we offer. The certification then opens you up to be able to work for our barn in a paid or volunteer capacity.

May 31st, 2026
1pm-3pm
15 mins NE of Calgary
Ages 16+
Cost for certification is $150+gst

Day one of our Mother's Day Weekend Retreat was so wonderful! Filled with peaceful moments, beautiful memories - and chats with our pregnant mare, Tori... trying to convince her to have her foal tomorrow and make this retreat even more unforgettable 😂💜

Amazing what a beautiful evening with a colorful sunset and a good horse can do for the soul 💜

❄️ If you refuse to find joy in the snow, you'll have the same amount of snow, but less joy ❄️

My favorite saying sure is getting harder to live by as this endless winter drags on - but we continue working at it! Our spring horsemanship campers were definitely not expecting a blizzard to be part of their curriculum at the end of April... but we approached the day with a great attitude and had a beautiful morning learning about skijor, cuddling baby goats and chickens, and playing barnyard bingo to challenge our problem solving skills (and earn some crisp high-fives 😎).

April so far - baby goats, chick hatches, and lots of horse hugs 💜