Equine Performance Solutions

It’s finally live! 🥳
What started as an idea to upload a few videos for clients, to help them remember what we worked on after movement sessions, evolved into something much bigger.

What I realized was that so many horse owners, especially those with kissing spine horses or horses struggling with performance, felt overwhelmed because they were trying to figure everything out at once:

How to control their horse, what to look for, what was happening in the body, what needed to change, and how to create that change.

It was overwhelming!

So in this class, I break it all down.
🤓 I walk you through the way I see horses and teach the anatomy in a way that applies to the everyday horse owner. Not just professionals.

From there we start with the movement patterns.
I show you:

✅ The tools I like to use and how I use them
✅ How to introduce the in-hand patterns
✅ What each pattern is designed to improve
✅ How to combine them into work in hand at a distance
✅ How to influence movement, balance, stability, posture, and spinal alignment
✅ How to use your own property, like hills, uneven ground and terrain, to improve proprioception and strength

Then we take that work back under saddle and apply the same principles in the ridden work.

🦄 One of my favorite parts of the course follows Wilma and her horse Kyon.
When they first came to me, Kyon had started refusing to move forward under saddle. Wilma had lost her confidence after several falls and was considering selling him and even quitting horses altogether.

✨ In this section, you’ll follow their journey from the beginning as Wilma learns the in-hand work and starts rebuilding Kyon’s movement and confidence. You’ll see how we worked through his stickiness, got him to unlock, and helped him move forward willingly again.

The course also includes several complex case studies where I break down the challenges, the process, what I learned, and what I would do differently now.

This course comes with lifetime access, and I’ll continue adding to it as I grow and work with more horses.

Because I still have a few pieces left to add, I’m offering it at a Founding Member price of $349 until July 15.
After that, the price will increase to $449.

So if you’d like to try something different... Come join me in this class!

https://vicke-s-site.thinkific.com/

When Max gets nervous his go to is to frantically start circling, push into my space, and if he hits the end of the line the energy often goes up into a rear. It’s sometimes hard to know what to do in the moment and how to handle it when you’re in the middle of it, and with Max things tend to escalate quickly😅
My goal for this clinic was to gain more insight and tools of how to bring his energy back down and his attention back on me when in stressful situations. I’m so grateful to have someone kind, calm, patient and so effective guiding me through the process and giving me some tools of how I can help him become more regulated🙏🏻

I’m so gateful to my experience at the clinic yesterday🙏🏻 To have Max at a place where we can finally go and do stuff like this and he staying in a mindset where he actually remains trainable feels amazing! 🙌🥳💃 It wouldn’t have been possible a couple of years ago…
One of the big challenges for me with Max is how quickly he goes from one mode to another and knowing when to push through and ask for more and when to back off, when to reward with a break but also recognizing when that break looses its value and becomes a distraction etc… it’s easy to look at a horse like Max and judge the handler😅 Lord knows I’m still working on trying to become quicker and more effective… but this clip shows how emotional he gets and how small the margin is between him ignoring me and stepping into my space, to becoming very insulted and animated because I touched him to reinforce the request that he was contunualy ignoring😆

I just started doing this the last few years and even once I started I didn’t take enough time to pause/soak/dwell but would go back to work too quickly…. It is the most powerful tool and the more time I allow for it in the beginning stages the quicker the horses respond to what I’m trying to teach them.