A Driving Force Equestrian LLC

06/20/2026

Equestrian Essentials Summer Session July 13-August 31

✨1 opening remaining✨

Come learn how to ride, groom, tack, ground handling, and so much more with the best ponies at Stonewall Ponies- Emily Elek in Ixonia, WI 🦄

Riding and Unmounted Skills
Ages 8+ are welcome

Email Meg at [email protected] to get signed up or if you have any questions!

06/19/2026

Hear what some students have said about their favorite parts about working with A Driving Force Equestrian LLC 💕

"Meghan is calm, knowledgeable, and meets riders and horses where they are at that day."

"Meghan possesses a patient, direct, caring and persistent approach that lends itself to high quality instruction."

"Meghan is dedicated. She does not just go through the motions in a lesson. She combines more traditional English skills with horsemanship techniques and is patient in her instruction."

“Meghan is easy to communicate with and allows me to watch her while she trains. She explains the "why" in lessons and training sessions and that has left me feeling confident in her abilities."

If you've worked with me and wish to, share your feedback here as I'm always looking to grow and offer the best I can to the equestrian community: https://form.jotform.com/250726531725052

06/18/2026

Yes!!

I’ve sometimes feel paralyzed while posting from the middle of the spectrum of equine wellness.

Just like fitness, politics, holistic living, and everything else it seems like it just keeps getting more polarizing in the echo chamber of social media. You’re all or nothing.

But I’m not.

There are people that never use bits or shoes, only clicker train, and never get on a horse’s back.

There are also people that compete 7 days a week with too much equipment and no nutrition.

I just want to ride my horse in the equipment that works for them, enjoy the fun of competition, feed them a species appropriate diet that they flourish on, and enjoy them.

I love that kids get to grow up competing in the arena learning how to win and how to lose. I just want to teach them more about caring for their horse between shows.

I love that a mom can go compete for a weekend and feel accomplished and enjoy sometime for herself and her animal. I just want them to have some more tools to use for their horse.

I love that some horses get relief from needed injections, I just want to show you how to support them after that to decrease the need in the future and rehab their body.

I don’t like the competitors vs therapists sentiment.

I know abrasive posts do wayyy better on social media, maybe that’s why there’s SO much of it. As a general statement, most competitors do need to be doing more for their horses.

But from a business perspective, more traction on social media while pi***ng off people that actually need your services serves no one.

I actually enjoy competing more than I enjoy rehab. I just want to compete on sound horses and I want to help everyone else do the same thing.

06/18/2026

IN THE WORK, LESSONS FROM THE HORSES — 16 ❤️‍🔥

Asking another being to grow, transform, be a curious and willing learner, to work hard on developing skills and understanding of their bodies, the sport, and the human, requires that of the requester as well.

Whenever I feel stuck, lost, confused, mistrusting of my own body or mind, or unfulfilled, the answer isn't doing more during the day -- that has taken a long time for me to grasp.
It's at night or in the morning. In the stillness, the reconnection to my intuition and heart, reconnection to my body through journaling, doing yoga, working out, or reading or listening to some inspirational work, or writing, perhaps sitting with the rain or sunset without distraction.

I witness this benefit the horses in my life in real time. When I lose my rhythm and I turn to the things I've learned over the years helps me, I show up with more presence, intention, grace, confidence, and curiosity. I slow down more with each horse or between horses, setting myself up to be a better version of myself at the end of the rope or reins.

06/17/2026

Only a couple spots left in the Summer Equestrian Essentials Session!

Beginner Friendly English Riding and Unmounted Lessons
Ages 8+

July 13-Aug 31

1 spot in the 4:45pm group that meets Mon & Wed
1 spot in the 6pm group that meets on Mon only

Email Meg at [email protected] with questions and to get signed up.

06/16/2026

Over the weekend, at the Stonewall Ponies- Emily Elek open house, Emily gave me the opportunity to teach some groundwork to the kids on Friday.

One of the things that stood out to me, was how fast the kids picked things up. They didn't have a ton of experience, a few had lunged a horse.

When I was a kid, basic groundwork was a part of my lessons. It became less of a thing in college, then became a deeper focus after I worked with Tik and Sinead Maynard in Florida, and came back to Wisconsin, began working with Nick Rivera.

I then embarked on a postural training, in-hand posture work, biomechanics, bodywork journey as well.

I bring all of these experiences into the arena alongside the riding as a trainer.

But back to the kids. While they were unsure at first, in just a few minutes, were getting the hang of it.

Teaching kids groundwork skills alongside the riding skills is incredibly important. It translates to how we can explain things to them under-saddle and help them learn to redirect undesired behaviors early on in their career in and out of the saddle so they can learn to respond rather than react.

They pick it up quickly and then they can apply it the rest of their career moving forward.

The earlier we teach these skills, the more natural they become.

Groundwork shouldn't be something riders discover years later — it's something they should grow up with.

06/15/2026

We were out of Small Ponies for about one second... but this is Stonewall Farm, so more always appear before you know it!

The spreadsheet is update daily:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14ITVMW-KjPCyGzxmOlVL578GUnUFcejL1oKKDVBAKJA

Text Emily Elek- 920-889-0028.
Beginner ponies through Pony Finals ribbon winners and pointed up to for Indoors 2026.

06/14/2026

Getting rolling for Day 3 with jumping at the SWF Open House & Clinic 🌟