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Equine Behaviour & Movement Specialist
BSc/MSc Equine Science

Helping horses feel good & move well 🐎
Quirky horse?

You’re in the right place 🧡

Onsite Training 🇦🇺 I Clinics 🌎 𝒞𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓉𝒾𝓃𝑔, 𝓇𝑒𝓈𝓉𝑜𝓇𝒾𝓃𝑔 & 𝓇𝑒-𝒷𝒶𝓁𝒶𝓃𝒸𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒽𝑜𝓇𝓈𝑒/𝒽𝓊𝓂𝒶𝓃 𝓅𝒶𝓇𝓉𝓃𝑒𝓇𝓈𝒽𝒾𝓅𝓈. Professional and compassionate, at Cadence Horse Training we are committed to providing the very best in customer (and equine!) service. We invest the time needed into each horse and carefully monitor progress while also providing valuable human interaction through grooming, massage and handling. Our unique Engage™ Training Program is a fusion of horsemanship, science based theory, biomechanics, straightness and classical training with a strong focus on regulation, balance and body control, this builds security and self confidence and equips the horse to achieve tasks asked of them, reduces the incidence of vices on the ground and under saddle and harbours a relationship based on trust between human and horse. All training programs begin on the ground and encourage body confidence and awareness, balance and straightness, while improving and correcting muscle tone to enable self-carriage. This promote willingness, soundness and longevity, aids a fluid transition to ridden training and consistently produces mentally and physically engaged equine partners, across a variety of ages, breeds and participating in a variety of disciplines.

02/11/2026

Most “bad” behaviour comes down to two things.
Neither of them are your horse being naughty.

🧠 A mind that can’t settle
⚖️ A body that can’t balance

Sometimes it’s one, often it’s both.

A horse who’s worried and dysregulated can’t think clearly, so they react instead. A horse who’s out of balance doesn’t feel safe in their own body, so they brace, rush or shut down.

Mind and body feed into each other, worry makes the body tight, a tight body makes a horse feel more worried and the cycle goes round and round.

That’s why working on only one side often gets you stuck:

❌ calm when there’s low intensity and little movement, but still explodes on the lunge

❌ strength exercises, but he’s still spooky and on edge

❌ progress that keeps sliding backwards

When you work on the mind and the body together, they can start to break that negative cycle and start to support each other positively.

If this sounds like your horse, I’d love to help 🐴

Join me at my BALANCE & BEHAVIOUR MASTERCLASS, NOV 15th NAR NAR GOON.

✅ Discussion
✅ LIVE demos
✅ Bubbles & Nibbles

DM me for the booking link!

horsemanship equestrian

28/10/2026

It settles in their muscles. 💪

A stiff, choppy horse isn’t always a body problem first.

When a horse feels worried or defensive, they hold it in their body, they brace and a braced horse can’t swing through, can’t engage, and can’t move freely, even when nothing is physically ‘wrong’.

In the same way, a horse who’s out of balance feels unsafe, and that shows up as spooking, pushing, pulling or that ‘on edge’ feeling.

Balance affects behaviour. Feelings affect movement. You can’t really fix one without looking at the other.

That’s what we’ll be digging into at my Balance & Behaviour Masterclass November 15th, Nar Nar Goon VIC.

A discussion, live demos & plenty of room for questions.

Message me if you’d like to come along 🐴

27/10/2026

You can’t scare a horse into being confident 🐴

This might come as a surprise, but the best moments from last weekend’s Calm Confidence Clinic weren’t the big, dramatic ones.

They were the quiet ones, a big sigh, a soft touch to their human or a horse on high alert finally slowing down enough to think and go back to being ‘the horse the person bought’.

We dug into why throwing a horse in the deep end so often backfires, and what actually builds confidence instead:

🐴 knowing how far is enough, and when to ease off
🐴 giving the brain time to process, not just pushing through
🐴 building consistency and predictability without losing your horse’s spark
🐴 plenty of theory, then hands-on practice so it actually sticks

We took this into every day scenarios like saddling or introducing new, challenging or scary things and went through the processes I use daily to keep my horses able to learn, able to progress and motivated to try.

Huge thank you to everyone who came along and brought such open minds (and lovely horses). Watching the “aha” moments land, for horses AND humans, never gets old 🧡

If your horse finds the world a bit much and you’re not sure where to start, drop a ‘CALM’ in the comments if you’re interested in some new dates for this clinic.

21/10/2026

There’s nothing wrong with a slow burn 🌱

If you’re starting over or feeling the need to do things a bit differently - you’re in the right place.

19/10/2026

It’s probably not what you’d expect…

… and your reminder that you’re more capable than you’ve been told.

18/10/2026

Repetition isn’t the key to building true confidence… but I can show you what is this weekend!

Sometimes it looks like it's working… right up until it doesn't.

But a horse who stops reacting hasn't necessarily become confident, often they've just learned there's no point saying anything. Quiet on the outside, still worried on the inside.

That doesn’t build consistency or predictability and it doesn’t truly help you or your horse.

Instead of piling on more pressure, we’ll look at what's going on in your horse's mind first.
Can they think?
Can they process a new thing and let the tension go?
Do they trust that you'll ease off when it's enough?

When that's in place, confidence isn't something you have to drill in, it grows, because your horse feels safe enough to think and relax and motivated enough to try and problem solve.

Over two days you'll get:

🧡 the ‘why’ behind your horse's worries, explained simply

🧡 hands-on time putting it into practice with your own horse

🧡 how to recognise when to push forward and when to stop - this is one of the most underrated skills!

This one's for you if your horse is a bit of a nervous wreck, if you've got a green youngster you really don't want to get wrong, or if things have gone sideways between you and you'd love a gentle reset.

There's 1 spot left for this weekend 🐴

Message me if you'd like it, or if you've got questions first. Happy to chat it through.

15/10/2026

🧡 If you've lost the connection you used to have, it's not too late, and you haven't ruined anything.

I don’t train like I used to, and I wish I’d known then what I know now for my first horse as a teenager, and the ‘quirky’ horses I often got assigned to ride.

I wasn’t trying to be unkind but I also didn’t understand what they were trying to tell me, so I did the best I could with what I knew. Sometimes I took recommendations that didn’t feel right but it was ‘just how we did it’.

If this resonates with you, you’re not alone.
Follow the socials and let’s work it out together at one of my upcoming events.

Comment CALM for the events page.

⭐️ 𝗕𝗔𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘 & 𝗕𝗘𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗜𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗠𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗖𝗟𝗔𝗦𝗦 𝟯 𝗡𝗢𝗩 𝟭𝟱𝘁𝗵 𝗡𝗔𝗥 𝗡𝗔𝗥 𝗚𝗢𝗢𝗡

⭐️ 𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗜𝗡 𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗬 𝗠𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗖𝗟𝗔𝗦𝗦 𝟰 𝗗𝗘𝗖 𝟭𝟯𝘁𝗵 𝗡𝗔𝗥 𝗡𝗔𝗥 𝗚𝗢𝗢𝗡

⭐️ 𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗠 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗙𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝟮-𝗗𝗔𝗬 𝗖𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗜𝗖,
𝗢𝗖𝗧𝗢𝗕𝗘𝗥 𝟮𝟰-𝟮𝟱𝘁𝗵, 𝗡𝗔𝗥 𝗡𝗔𝗥 𝗚𝗢𝗢𝗡 𝗩𝗜𝗖

⭐️ 𝗠𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧 & 𝗠𝗨𝗦𝗖𝗟𝗘 𝟭-𝗗𝗔𝗬 𝗖𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗜𝗖 𝗗𝗘𝗖 𝟱𝘁𝗵 𝗡𝗔𝗥 𝗡𝗔𝗥 𝗚𝗢𝗢𝗡

13/10/2026

When a horse behaves like this, it’s easy to assume they’re being naughty, stubborn or disrespectful.
Most of us have been told to just be firmer, or to keep at it until they give in.

But the behaviour is only half the story, a horse who constantly spooks, pushes or pulls is a horse who doesn’t feel steady in their own body.

Learning how to process pressure and regulate their emotions is the start but not the end, without the strength, balance and coordination to easily stop, turn or stand still, they’ll find their own way to cope, and that coping is what we end up calling bad behaviour.

If you want to know the whole story and why each piece is so important join me at my upcoming Balance & Behaviour Masterclass or 1-Day Posture, Muscle & Movement Clinic.

Once you can see it the behaviours start to make a lot more sense, and you can work on the root causes that driving them.

DM TO BOOK!

⭐️ 𝗕𝗔𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘 & 𝗕𝗘𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗜𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗠𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗖𝗟𝗔𝗦𝗦 𝟯 𝗡𝗢𝗩 𝟭𝟱𝘁𝗵 𝗡𝗔𝗥 𝗡𝗔𝗥 𝗚𝗢𝗢𝗡

⭐️ 𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗜𝗡 𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗬 𝗠𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗖𝗟𝗔𝗦𝗦 𝟰 𝗗𝗘𝗖 𝟭𝟯𝘁𝗵 𝗡𝗔𝗥 𝗡𝗔𝗥 𝗚𝗢𝗢𝗡

⭐️ 𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗠 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗙𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝟮-𝗗𝗔𝗬 𝗖𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗜𝗖,
𝗢𝗖𝗧𝗢𝗕𝗘𝗥 𝟮𝟰-𝟮𝟱𝘁𝗵, 𝗡𝗔𝗥 𝗡𝗔𝗥 𝗚𝗢𝗢𝗡 𝗩𝗜𝗖

⭐️ 𝗠𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧 & 𝗠𝗨𝗦𝗖𝗟𝗘 𝟭-𝗗𝗔𝗬 𝗖𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗜𝗖 𝗗𝗘𝗖 𝟱𝘁𝗵 𝗡𝗔𝗥 𝗡𝗔𝗥 𝗚𝗢𝗢𝗡

Address

145 Eight Mile Road
Nar Nar Goon, VIC
3812

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 4pm
Tuesday	8am - 4pm
Wednesday	8am - 4pm
Thursday	8am - 4pm
Friday	8am - 4pm
Saturday	9am - 2pm

Telephone

+61468390675

Website

https://vet.ed.ac.uk/, http://horsetraininginharmony.com/

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