Education & Support
Equine Functional Movement Training
Casey’s approach begins with observing the horse as a whole. Posture, movement, balance, behavior, and expression all offer useful information about how a horse is using its body and responding to its environment.
Her work is educational and training-based, helping owners better understand movement patterns, improve handling awareness, and create a more comfortable learning environment for the horse.
Casey also helps owners think through daily management choices that can support healthy movement habits outside of formal training sessions. This may include ideas such as track systems, enrichment, mental stimulation, educational play, stall setup, feeding routines, and ways to encourage more natural daily movement.
The goal is to connect what happens in the horse’s everyday environment with what we ask of the horse in the arena, on the trail, and during regular handling. Small changes in daily movement, posture, focus, and confidence can help support better training experiences over time.
Training Focus Areas
• Whole-horse observation
• Posture and balance awareness
• Functional movement education
• Relaxation and trust during handling
• Owner education and practical training support
• Track systems and daily movement planning
• Mental stimulation and enrichment ideas
• Educational play and thoughtful stall setup
• Feeding routines that encourage movement
• Connections between posture, movement, and hoof balance
Casey does not diagnose, treat, prescribe, or replace veterinary care. Her work is educational and training-based, focused on helping owners recognize movement patterns, improve handling awareness, and support the horse’s comfort during everyday training and care.
If a horse shows signs of pain, illness, injury, lameness, or a medical concern, owners should consult a licensed veterinarian.
Canine Enrichment & Movement Education
Casey helps dog owners create practical, everyday routines that support confidence, focus, and healthy movement habits through education, enrichment, and training-based activities.
This may include ideas for play yards, safe play environments, lick mats, puzzle feeders, scent games, mealtime enrichment, daily movement routines, and confidence-building activities.
The goal is to help owners create a more engaging environment that encourages curiosity, relaxation, problem-solving, and appropriate movement throughout the day.
Casey’s work is educational and training-based. She does not diagnose, treat, prescribe diets, recommend medical nutrition plans, adjust, manipulate, or replace veterinary care. For medical concerns, pain, illness, injury, lameness, allergies, weight concerns, or special dietary needs, please consult a licensed veterinarian.
“So often we horse owners have to rely on several individuals to make up our horse’s “team.” With Casey, you get a team of specialists in one person! She is so unique in that she combines her background as a vet tech, an osteopath, and a farrier along with her extensive knowledge of nutrition and even homeopathy. Casey is also one of those rare experts who is able to explain her methods in a way that any layman can understand. It is wonderful to spend time soaking up wisdom from Casey and Jillian together - they make a very powerful team!
For each of my horses, Casey has made a difference, not only in their movement but in their mental and physical wellbeing. The improvements that I’ve witnessed often start with the hoof, but since the hoof is completely affected by nutrition and posture, it is so helpful that Casey can create a protocol to address the whole horse. We need more people like Casey in the world who want to dedicate themselves to this logical and essential way of looking at the horse.”
- Hazel Clinton
Breeder
Education and Experience
What Is Equine Functional Movement Education?
Equine Functional Movement Education is a whole-horse, training-based approach that helps owners better understand how posture, balance, movement, behavior, and environment work together.
Casey has worked alongside Jillian Kreinbring for 14 years, studying functional movement, posture principles, and whole-horse observation. Through this ongoing education and hands-on experience, Casey has developed a practical approach to helping owners recognize how their horses use their bodies in daily life, groundwork, arena work, trail riding, and routine care.
Rather than looking at one part of the horse in isolation, Casey observes how the horse functions as a connected system. The focus is on recognizing movement patterns, improving owner awareness, and supporting training choices that encourage confidence, relaxation, and better body organization.
Focus areas may include:
• Whole-horse observation
• Functional movement education
• Posture and balance awareness
• Groundwork and handling support
• Track systems and daily movement planning
• Enrichment and mental stimulation
• Feeding routines that encourage movement
• Educational play and stall setup ideas
• Connections between posture, movement, and hoof balance
• Owner education for arena, trail, and everyday care
Casey’s work is educational and training-based. She does not diagnose, treat, prescribe, adjust, manipulate, rehabilitate, or replace veterinary care. If a horse shows signs of pain, illness, injury, lameness, or a medical concern, owners should consult a licensed veterinarian.
How Movement Happens
Movement happens where parts of the body meet, connect, and work together.
In functional movement education, Casey observes how the horse uses their body as a whole — including posture, balance, timing, confidence, feet, soft tissues, and daily habits.
The goal is to help owners better understand movement patterns and make thoughtful training choices that support the horse in everyday handling, arena work, and on the trail.
Fascia, Tissue & Movement Awareness
The body is connected from the surface to the deeper layers. Muscles, soft tissues, posture, balance, feet, and daily habits all influence how a horse moves and learns.
Casey uses whole-horse observation and functional movement education to help owners better understand these connections in training, handling, and everyday care.
Barefoot Trim
Barefoot trims are a natural hoof care approach to high-performance hooves reducing the need for shoes.
Dr. Glen Anderson speaks about how the farrier really doesn’t affect the blood flow through the digital vessels coming down the limb but trimming and shoeing can certainly impact the circumflex artery at the toe.
– Glen “Andy” Anderson DVM member of the International Equine Veterinarian Hall of Fame – American Farriers Journal
Deep Dive
If you would like to dive deeper into the world of posture from a hoof care read “The Horse’s Foot as a Neurosensory Organ”
by Dr. R.M. Bowker
at Michigan State University
Flowtrition-Inspired Feel & Movement
Casey has studied Flowtrition through the work of Dr. Lance Wright and appreciates its emphasis on light touch, non-judgment, awareness, and allowing the individual to respond in their own way.
In Casey’s training work, these ideas are applied through the feel of the bridle reins, the timing of a rope, the softness of a hand, and the way the horse is invited into movement.
Rather than forcing a shape or demanding a response, Casey teaches owners to notice what the horse is communicating through posture, rhythm, breathing, expression, balance, and movement choices.
The goal is to help the handler become more aware of pressure, release, timing, and intention so the horse has a clearer opportunity to understand, respond, and organize during groundwork, arena work, and on the trail.
Dr. Lance Wright
is a wonderful vast bank of knowledge. His touch and abilities go beyond as a doctor and teacher. I encourage everyone to attend Flowtrition classes & events for their own personal health and wellness and for loved ones. Dr. Wright’s practice also includes Food and Chemical Sensitivity and Genetic Nutrition.