Equine Performance Solutions

09/06/2026

Wrapping up a great weekend at Iron Sharpens Iron Farrier School. Mark put on a great informative event for us and I was excited to get to present both days.
It was the first time for me presenting my posture and movement and painted horse presentation in front of a live audience and I was so excited about how interested and involved everyone was! I really appreciated that🥰 I’m never sure if I’m the only one interested in this stuff😅
As always I’m so grateful to Maria Fegan for once again helping me bring a beautiful painted horse to life!
Great weekend, and it sounds like we can look forward to Mark Male organizing more events like it in the future!

09/05/2026

This is a fantastic opportunity! Susan Waite Tenney is amazing in the insight she can give on the different elements and how to approach them🥰

FREE EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT - link to join in comments
You're not the problem. Your lens is.
You've got good results. Solid training. Real skill. In bodywork, training, animal care…

But there's that handful of cases — you know the ones — where you hit a wall. The animal doesn't respond the way the textbook says it should. Progress stalls. And somewhere in the back of your mind, a quiet thought creeps in: maybe I'm just not good enough. Maybe I need more training. Maybe I'm missing something.

Here's what I want you to consider: you might be right that something's missing.
But it's not your skill.

Every method you've ever learned - whatever your discipline in animal care - was built to be the answer. They told you: One approach, applied consistently, works for all animals most of the time.
That's exactly why it got served to you as "the solution."

But it was never meant to work for ALL of them.

The ultra-sensitive ones. The complex, layered cases. The ones even the vets have quietly given up on and chalked up to "just how that animal is." Those are the cases where a one-size-fits-all lens goes myopic — it simply doesn't have the resolution to see what's actually driving the pattern.

If you're trained to see every case through a single method, every case looks like it needs that method. That's not a flaw in you. That's the nature of a hammer — it makes everything look like a nail.

What if instead you had a lens built to see in layers — like a graduated lens that adjusts for what's actually in front of it? One that could show you why this particular animal isn't responding the way "normal" cases do - and from there, help you build a truly customized approach.

Maybe the best method would be our Five Element Acupressure and EnergyWork™ techniques. Maybe it's a blend with the expertise you already have. Either way — that's the piece that breaks the logjam.

And you can solve the case while others are still scratching their heads.

I'm opening this theme up in a free 7-day Online event: The In Your Element Experience (Sept 28–Oct 4).

🔹 Free 30-min live sessions M/W/F
🔹 Optional VIP deep-dive Sundays ($27)
🔹 Including a full session on building a practice that fits YOUR Element — not a generic template

If you've ever looked at a stalled case and quietly wondered if it was you — come see what you might have actually been missing. Register at link in comments.

09/05/2026

Please make it stop… Horses and pretty much all mammals have 7 cervical vertebrae and they look nothing like what the ones in this picture. Like nothing!!! 🙈
This page has 15k followers and all I see as I look through their posts are things that are incorrect… we have access to so much information, which should help us get more educated, but then we have stuff like this….

09/04/2026

Click the link for a piece of advice from yours truly🥰

This week's Connection Corner features Vicke McCall of Equine Performance Solutions on activation exercises and stretches for your horse. Small movements that make a real difference in how they carry themselves under saddle. https://connectionsaddlefit.com/equestrian-advice

09/03/2026

Looking forward to attending this clinic. I’m signed up for the first one that’s already sold out, but I think the second clinic still has some spots available. Don’t miss out on a great opportunity, so grab a spot! Stay curious and keep learning! 😘🤓📖👩🏻‍🎓

In the Equine industry, it’s easy to assume everyone knows Yogi Sharp.
If you don’t… let us show you what you’ve been missing.

Because understanding the why behind movement, balance, and loading isn’t optional anymore!
It’s the difference between guessing and actually helping the whole horse.

That’s the kind of thinking we need more of in this industry.

https://www.theequinedocumentalist.com/

If you haven’t registered for the 2nd clinic on September 14th & 15th, you are going to miss out!

09/01/2026

🥰The range of emotions that movement training horses go through during the first time back under saddle can be quite powerful.

This video shows my first ride on a horse with grade 4 kissing spine horse that was with me for movement training for 30 days.

Although she didn’t behave badly under saddle before she came to me, she was constantly rushing, leaning heavily on the bit, was very unbalanced, and difficult to steer. In downward transitions and on curved tracks she would fishtail and drift, and coming to a halt was a challenging for her as was standing still.

The focus of this ride was to clarify the aids as I took her through some of the items on my riding checklist. Checking for holes in her understanding and breaking it down for her where she was confused.

Once they understand what to do and how to do it, the brace and anxiety melts away and they develop a new relationship to contact.

This mare was only with me for 30 days but she made some enormous improvements and I'm happy to get to visit with her every few months to continue the work❤️

⭐This is the next horse to be featured in the case studies of my Equine Posture & Movement Training Masterclass.

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

08/31/2026

When Max arrived, he was severely underweight and completely shut down😔
He had no interest in interacting with people, and when people saw him for the first time, the most common comment was, *“Well… he’s got a cute face.”*
I like spicy, cheeky horses, and I remember making the comment that I didn’t know if he had enough fire in him...😆
Turns out… he had plenty😳
One medical disaster after another got in the way of us bonding, but once he got some groceries in him, he started coming back to life.
But the horse that came out wasn’t easy.
He wasn’t cheeky—he was defensive, easily triggered, and angry.
Frustration or even the slightest aggression toward him only fueled him, and he made it very clear that if I was going to fight him into submission, he was going to fight back—no matter the cost.
Other horses being ridden around him would send him into a frenzy.
And I don’t mean what you see in these videos.
I mean completely checked out.
No awareness of his surroundings.
Rearing.
Striking at me.
Leaping around me—and sometimes it felt like over me.
Hooves flying way too close for comfort.
Slipping. Falling. Over and over.
With absolutely no concern for my safety or his own.
And in those moments, there was no reaching him. No training through it. He was gone.
There were days I wore my helmet and crash vest just trying to wrestle him to the round pen or arena in hopes of accomplishing something.
He was on a different level—like nothing I had ever experienced before, and I have always been drawn to complicated and difficult horses...
And for the first time in my life, I thought - I don’t know if I can do this.
My plans to reshape his body, posture, and movement came to a screeching halt because every attempt I made to help him was perceived as an attack he needed to defend himself against.
That’s what sent me down a completely different path—one I never had any interest in before.
I started learning from people like Tik Maynard, Warwick Schiller, Josh Nichol, Buck Brannaman, Ray Hunt, Tom Dorrance, and Jonathan Field. Listening to any podcast or interview I could find to better undersand their philosophy.
Their approaches gave me a new way to understand Max—and new tools to meet him where he was.
Through all of that, along with the wisdom from more classical riders and my background in functional anatomy, I began to discover a new way to create better posture, spinal alignment, and movement.
The results of that journey are what became this class.
This course wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for the challenges Max brought me.
And while our journey is far from over, it has been one of the most rewarding ones yet.
Click Link to join me in the Equine Posture & Movement Training Masterclass
https://vicke-s-site.thinkific.com

08/31/2026

A couple of weeks ago I sat down and had a great conversation with April Schaefer on her Equine Advocate Podcast. We had a great chat about everything horses, bodywork, movement training, posture, nutrition etc.
Have a listen and please pardon my slight nasally, horse voice. I was recovering from being sick😷🤒

EP 76 THE EQUINE ADVOCATE PODCAST
Join Vicke McCall and I for a fabulous conversation about equine posture and movement-and how emotional, mental and physical components impact this!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/76EBbQBhtLiumQ9f3NAiBF?si=nez3yOrFQ4K0wYwBZgF3CQ

Vicke is an equine bodyworker, movement specialist, and educator dedicated to helping horses move, perform, and feel their best. With a lifelong passion for horses and years of hands-on experience, she specializes in identifying the underlying causes of movement dysfunction rather than simply addressing the symptoms.

As a certified bodyworker, Vicke integrates sports massage, myofascial release (MFR), acupressure, craniosacral therapy, PEMF, and laser therapy into her bodywork practice. Her work is complemented by an in-depth understanding of equine functional anatomy, posture, and movement, allowing her to help horses develop healthier posture and more efficient movement patterns.

Known for her success in rehabilitating horses with complex movement and behavioral challenges, Vicke focuses on developing stability, balance, and spinal alignment to improve function while supporting long-term soundness and performance. Through her educational approach, she combines the emotional, mental, and physical aspects of the horse to develop calmer, more engaged, and willing equine athletes.

Vicke has also developed the Equine Posture and Movement Training Master Class, an online educational program designed to make functional anatomy understandable for everyday horse owners. She gives owners the knowledge and confidence to recognize what is happening with their horse's posture, visualize what is possible, and apply a practical framework that helps horses develop healthier posture, movement, and long-term performance.

Website: www.equinemovementretraining.com
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Movement Training Course: Equine Posture & Movement Training Masterclass