Author Archives: Tonya Johnston

Visualization is a tool that is often recommended to riders in order to improve their performance. Let's make sure you're doing it correctly, shall we? 1. Focus on effectiveness by generating...

Your trainer helps you with your horse in special, invaluable ways. They teach, demonstrate, encourage, cajole, enlighten, cheerlead, remind, remind again, motivate, facilitate, remind yet again, and generally provide you...

Lesson canceled? Rained out of riding? Relegated to the bench by injury? When life throws a curve ball at your riding plans, you have a choice: You can binge watch...

Going to horse shows with your friends can be a fantastic, fun experience. Who will get more attention from the trainers? You get to root for each other, be silly...