The Balanced Horse Project

09/05/2026

A moment of delight.

09/05/2026

Many training problems begin before training.

They begin when the horse organizes its body around imbalance.

The horse isn't necessarily resisting the training.

It may be trying not to fall.

What if it's using the rider's hands to create balance?

If that's true, what happens when we improve the horse's balance before correcting the behavior?

That's the question behind The Balanced Horse Project.

The horse is the evidence.

09/04/2026

“Hello Patricia.

This is a call from Edmonton, Alberta.
Can you read my mare?”

I settled into a comfortable chair and shared information about a young horse I may never meet.

Roughly 2,800 miles apart, her owner validated what came through.

Don’t ask me how animal communication works.

Maybe it connects to what military research explored through remote viewing. Or what native people continue to practice today.

Or
Maybe not.

I love doing this.

Now her owner has information to work with as she shapes this young mare’s career.

There’s something exciting about being able to help a horse I may never meet.

It feels good to help.

09/04/2026

Socrates pointed out that ignorance is preferable to false certainty.

His student Xenophon carried that questioning mind into horsemanship.

More than 2,000 years later, false certainty keeps us repeating the same methods—even when the horse shows us they aren't working.

What if what we think we know isn't so?

Look at the results.

Why not take a different approach?

Ask the uncomfortable questions.

That is what drives The Balanced Horse Project.

What question about your horse have you never found a satisfactory answer to?

09/04/2026

My roots begin here.
I use the horse's power to reset straightness.
I modified the exercises to help owners succeed.

http://www.Marc-Lubetzki.comBent Branderup bei der täglichen Morge...

09/02/2026

BHP RESET — CRESTVIEW AREA

This Friday, September 4th, we’re making a day trip through the Crestview area.

We start at 10 AM in the Reeves Williams area and can add a few stops along the way.

If you’d like to book a STEP RESET session for your horse, send me a DM.

Please include your barn address or location. Distance determines the travel cost, so I’ll need that before I can give you an accurate price.

If you’ve been curious about RESET and want an opportunity while we’re in the area, Friday may be the day.

DM me for details or to reserve a stop.

09/02/2026

Conformation Is a Physical Language

When we stop looking at conformation as simply how a horse is built and begin reading it as a physical language, we start seeing information that can change how we train.

This is a young gaited mustang.
Look carefully at the first photo.

He's downhill, narrow through the chest and strung out behind. His front and hindquarters don't appear to be working as one connected frame.

Now imagine riding that posture.
Much of modern riding attempts to organize the front end by shortening the neck and controlling the head.

If the horse is already struggling to lift the chest and shoulders, where does the weight go?

Forward.

Try putting your palms on the floor, lifting your hips and looking ahead. Then try stepping your feet underneath yourself.

Awkward, isn't it?

That gives you a crude illustration of the problem.

A high, extended hip position makes it harder to bring the hind legs underneath the body. The horse can move forward, but carrying and propelling are not the same thing.

Now look at Day 3.
The YY RESET hasn't built muscle in three days.That's what makes this interesting. The frame shaping his posture changed first.

The chest appears broader and more elevated. The abdominal line has changed. The shoulders appear freer. And suddenly the weakness through the back and hindquarters becomes much easier to see.

Good.
Now we know what region needs to reset in the next training.

Over the coming weeks I'll use movement and balance to see whether this new organization allows him to strengthen through the back, abdomen and hindquarters.

This is where conformation becomes a language.
The body tells us where the horse has been compensating.

Balance tells us what might change.

Movement tells us whether we were right.

Study the two photographs.
Can you see where the first horse appears divided between front and hindquarters?
Can you see the beginning of a different connection in the second?

This is why I believe resetting posture toward a more efficient state deserves a place in horsemanship.

Before we train the horse to carry the rider perhaps we should ask whether he can carry himself.

09/01/2026

The fundamentals of riding begin with agreements that create balance.

Balance is a universal language.

The primary directive of the body is simple: don’t fall.

When balance is threatened, both horse and human instinctively change posture, shape and movement to remain upright.

This is where Conformation Integrity matters.

A horse with high Conformation Integrity carries its balance closer to core center. That makes it easier to accept the weight of a rider without having to compensate.

A crooked, downhill or uneven horse is already making compromises to stay balanced. Add a rider, and those compromises can become resistance, leaning, rushing or other training problems.

When trainers understand balance as a language, we can begin to read reactions differently.

Instead of asking only, “How do I correct the dropped shoulder forming a collapsed circle?”

We can ask, “What does this horse need to improve it's balanced?”

08/31/2026

Every horse takes us one step further toward identifying the source of weak conformation and training limitations.

Meet Echo.

This mustang arrived August 25 unable to comfortably hold a lope. He has now completed STEP 1 of his body makeover, the YY RESET.

Here are some of his early results.

I apologize for the inconsistent photos. When Echo arrived, he couldn't reliably stand square. He struggled simply to organize his feet underneath himself, which, in itself, tells part of his story.

I hope the changes are easy to see.

The horses participating in the STEP RESET Fall Tour will have the opportunity to reorganize their form through this same process.

With Echo, I'm working slowly and making sure he remains in agreement with what we're asking.

Interestingly, the one horse I thought might become highly expressive through the process simply volunteers.

His biggest expression?

After today's session, Echo needed to suck on my fingers.

And I mean suck, like a foal.

I'm not going to tell you what that means. I'm simply documenting what he chose to do.

I'll have more photos showing today's changes.

I never get tired of watching these horses reorganize themselves. The physical change is fascinating, but what matters to me is what happens afterward:

How does the horse move?
How does he behave?
And how does he train?

Let me know what you see in Echo's results from STEP's YY RESET.

08/31/2026

BHP FALL RESET TOUR — UPDATE

Hey folks!

Thank you for the response to our Fall RESET Tour.

We now have a head count and locations, which means we can start putting the pieces together—the route, dates and final budget.

Tomorrow, I’ll begin contacting interested horse owners with proposed dates, fees and answers to your questions.

Once appointments are confirmed, I’ll build the final route and publish the tour schedule by next weekend.

We’re getting closer to putting this road trip on the road!

Watch for updates.