Cargill Equestrian

Cargill Equestrian FEI Dressage & Eventing Rider Amber available for schooling horses, sale prep, lessons, campaigning horses, clinics, rallies, retraining. Located in Nyora VIC

30/08/2026

Funny what can be waiting around the corner.

Last night I went out at sunset intending to film for the little course I’m creating.

Instead, Cabo and I started playing. 🤭

Every time I suggested something, he’d offer something back — usually something more. I’d respond. I’d offer again. He’d respond. And somewhere in this very simple exercise, I found myself belly laughing like a little girl 🥹
We were connecting like two old friends remembering a soul language we used to speak except this time, the conversation flowed more freely.

Riding horses on camera was once a huge part of my life. After the heartache and changes of the last few years, I genuinely believed I’d never post current riding footage again.

It felt finished. And in a way, it was. Just not in the way I thought.

That version of it was finished.

I think I needed to go the long way around (and boy is that a story for another day 😂) before I could come back without needing it to mean what it used to mean.

Somewhere along that long way around, I fell in love with learning all over again — movement, Pilates, yoga, psychology, the body, the mind, connection. Things that seemed like completely different paths at the time.

And now, somehow, they’re all finding their way home with me.

Anyway — here I am. Free to love horses and dressage perhaps more than I ever have.

I just don’t want the same things from it anymore.

Winning looks different now.

Less proving. More playing.
Less restriction. More creation.
More collaboration. More listening.
Less about scoreboards. More about the curious conversation.
Less about controlling the life underneath me, and more about meeting it with all the life within me.

Maybe that’s the funny thing about corners.

You can’t know what’s waiting on the other side before you turn them.

Sometimes winning isn’t finding what you expected there.

Sometimes it’s having the courage to keep turning corners - and finding a version of yourself you never could have planned for 🩷

I encourage you to turn every corner with the awareness that this very corner could be the one that changes the entire trajectory of your riding, your life

30/08/2026

I’ve been quietly building something that feels like the beginning of a much bigger idea… and world 🐴🤍

Before I open my brand new online course “Creating A Back You Can Sit On” properly, I want to take a tiny group of riders through it with me first…. 🙏

I’m looking for just 8–10 riders who are curious, open-minded and genuinely willing to experiment with their horse, and with me 🐴

You’ll get the entire experience completely free, plus much more hands-on mentoring from me as you work through it as I learn from you guys too!

In return, I want your participation. Your questions. Your observations. The moments something suddenly clicks - and the moments where you think Amber, I have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about 😂

You don’t need to be an advanced rider
You don’t need a fancy horse
You don’t need to have sitting trot figured out

I’m much more interested in riders who want to feel more, understand more and force less - or helping you achieve steps towards that if you feel like you and your horse are aren’t connecting properly right now 💕☀️

If you’d genuinely like to be part of my first little Rider Lab group, comment LAB below and I’ll message you with a few questions about you + your horse. 🤍

8–10 places only for this first little Reign Experiment - 1 spot already filled, I want this to be a really collaborative experience, and I’m very passionate, and excited about this next chapter ☀️

There’s a moment in riding where you stop doing and start feeling.Less thinking. More listening.Subtle communication bec...
25/08/2026

There’s a moment in riding where you stop doing and start feeling.

Less thinking. More listening.
Subtle communication becomes shared rhythm — until it feels like two bodies moving as one.

That’s dressage flow state and I think somewhere along the way I had forgotten it’s my favourite thing in the world. ✨🐴

Have you ever felt this with a horse - that moment where you stopped riding from your head and just knew? 🙏

21/08/2026

We tell riders to “use your seat” all the time. Riders hear things like that all the time 😅

But sometimes I think we skip a step… do you even actually know how your pelvis moves? 😂

This is such a simple little exercise, but it gives you a chance to explore that movement without also trying to coordinate your legs, hands, balance AND the 600kg animal underneath you 🎪

Rock it. Feel it. Make it smaller. Draw the belly in - Find the control! Find your core…

Then take that freedom and awareness back to the saddle. 🐴 I promise your horse will love you for it 🙏

19/08/2026

I spent 20+ years learning to communicate with horses through tiny changes in my body.

Turns out that gave me a pretty weird head start when I started teaching Pilates 😂🐴

Because there’s a BIG difference between getting through a movement and actually having control over how you got there.

And honestly, dressage and Pilates are both terrible for throwing around cues that make complete sense in theory…

“Engage your core.”
“Sit deeper.”
“Use your seat.”
“Stabilise your pelvis.”
“Carry your hands.”

Like… cool. 😂

BUT HOW? What am I actually meant to FEEL?

The more I teach movement, the more fascinated I am by how much crossover there is with everything I learned riding and coaching horses, and also how that works in reverse 💫💫💫

So I want to play with this.

Give me a cue you’ve heard 1000 times but your body still doesn’t quite understand…. 👇🏼 the more tricky the better!

🐴 Horse people — riding/dressage cues.

🤸🏼‍♀️ Pilates/yoga/movement people — give me yours too.

Literally just comment the phrase.

I’m going to pick as many as I can and see if I can find a way to make them actually make sense in your body, not just in your head using everything I’ve learned from every movement chapter on my journey 👀

17/08/2026

I spent years trying to work out which version of me I was supposed to be.

The rider 🐴
The athlete
The psych grad
The Pilates girl.
The yoga teacher. 🧘🏼‍♀️
The strong one. The soft one. The beginner. The expert.

And somewhere along the way, I realised…

I don’t have to choose 🤷‍♀️

Maybe the point isn’t finding the perfect label…

Maybe it’s taking every weird, wonderful, heartbreaking, brilliant chapter with you - and letting it shape what you have to give.

Because underneath all of my different “things”, the thread has actually honestly never changed.

I really love learning.
And I really really love creating.
And I really really really love sharing

The method changes sometimes

But I hope the mission never does 🤍

25/12/2025

For anyone healing or navigating challenges this Christmas 🤍

You are not behind.
You are not broken.
You are still here — and that matters 💪

Sometimes the quiet moments become the beginning of something miraculous ✨🫶

18/12/2025

This is a longer video than I’d usually share - but it comes from a very sincere place.

This Christmas has felt different for me after loss, tragedy, and great love.
So on Christmas Eve, I’m opening a gentle, healing space for anyone who needs a safe space to rest, to breathe, to move mindfully or who doesn’t want to feel alone.

✨ 90 minutes
✨ Christmas-spirit themed yoga, breathwork & reflection
✨ Everything optional — movement, journaling, breath work, rest, gentle Christmas spirit through story telling and embodied practice
✨ Optional donation to Vision Australia 🙏

You don’t need to be flexible.
You don’t need yoga experience.
You don’t need to be joyful or “okay.”

As long as you’re breathing with us, you belong.

I’ll be there even if I’m the only one on the mat — but if you’re feeling a little alone this Christmas, or you’d like a softer way to arrive at Christmas Day, I would truly love to see you there 🙏 It would be my honour to share this practice with as many friends, new and old, as possible.

📍 Christmas Eve
🕯️ Starting around 4:30pm (final time to be confirmed)
📩 DM me for details

Everyone is welcome 🤍 share with friends that might need a little extra love this Christmas 🎄
DM me on any of these accounts to secure a mat 🙏

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