Academie Middle Ground

10/08/2025

🐴✨ Therapeutic Horsemanship @ Back2Basiks ✨🐴
We accept:
✅ AFU
✅ DL Funding
✅ ISPARK Grants
✅ MCFD & Respite Funding
💛 30% off for Foster/Adoptive Homes
💛 Sliding Scale / “Pay What You Can” options available for families without funding

Does your child:
🌿 Love animals and need a positive outlet?
🌿 Thrive with outdoor, hands-on experiences?
🌿 Benefit from extra social, emotional, or sensory support?
Our Therapeutic Horsemanship Programs offer more than just “ride and get off.” Kids learn horsemanship, teamwork, life skills, and confidence—while connecting deeply with our horses, mentors, and peers.

Programs Available:
1️⃣ Pro-D Day Camps / Full-Day Adventure Programs
2️⃣ 1:1–1:3 Small Group Sessions (weekends)
3️⃣ Riding with KJ! (ages 8+) – focused on confidence, connection, and skill-building
4️⃣ Daytime Sessions (Thurs. mornings) – perfect for Alternative or Home Learners

🌟 Visit: https://www.back2basiks.me for full program details
📞 Book a free Zoom chat with KJ to learn more

09/26/2025

LOCATED IN ALDERGROVE BUT CAN DO SOME TRAVELLING FOR 1/2 day and Full-Day Programs 🙌🏽

Winter 2025 is coming and we have spaces for 1:2/ sibling group sessions and Pro-D Day camps coming up soon! PM us to find out more info!
Get your child into some riding spots before they were all gone 💗🐴

07/31/2025

All of this! Some of the kiddos have the best days just starting their days off at the horses 🙂

🧠 “Did you know your gut has more neurons than your spinal cord? Maybe your stomach isn’t anxious… maybe it’s wise.”

Your body knows.
Long before you can explain it.
Long before your mouth finds the words.

That flutter in your belly? That twist in your gut?
It’s not irrational.
It’s your internal warning system.
Your second brain.

The enteric nervous system (ENS)—your gut—contains over 100 million neurons. That’s more than the spinal cord.
It plays a key role in emotional regulation, memory, and the production of neurotransmitters like serotonin and dopamine.
Scientists now refer to it as the gut-brain axis, a powerful two-way street between emotion and digestion. ([Gershon, 1998], [Mayer et al., 2015])

At Equimotional, we teach young people that their body isn’t the problem.
Their body is the map.

✨ We honour interoception—the felt sense of internal states.
✨ We listen to what tension, heartbeats, and posture can teach us.
✨ We hold space for the truth that lives below language.

We don’t rush them to talk.
We help them learn to listen—
To their breath, their instincts, their embodied wisdom.

Healing isn’t just cognitive.
It’s somatic.

And when a horse stands beside you…
calmly, curiously…
your gut finally exhales.

🧬 Scientific Sources

Gershon, M. D. (1998). The Second Brain. Harper.

Mayer, E. A., et al. (2015). Gut–brain axis: “A link between gut microbiota and mental health.” Clinical Psychopharmacology and Neuroscience, 13(2), 103–112.

Tsakiris, M., et al. (2011). “Interoception: A key to understanding emotional experience.” Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 15(6), 265–273.

07/27/2025

**SUMMER BLAST CAMPS ARE NOW SCHEDULED! & INTERIM FALL 2025! 3-4 SPACES AVAILABLE IN MOST CAMPS. FIRST COME FIRST SERVE. Deposits Required.**

🌟 SURREY-LANGLEY-ALDERGROVE- FRASER SOUTH REGION 🌟 TOWNSHIP OF LANGLEY FOCUSED PROGRAMS

We’re offering:
☑️15% off (Early Bird Sign Up/Commitment FOR FALL 2025)
☀️Sliding Scale/ Pay what you can Afford
👓2 week introduction RATES to our programs!
Neuro-Inclusive/ 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 Friendly! AGES 4-9 & 10-13
**30% FOSTER & ADOPTIVE PARENTS DISCOUNT**

We have:
🌟 SWIM CLUB- POKEMON/ BOARD GAMES
🌟 FLEX-OUTDOOR ADVENTURES: CITY EDITION
🌟 EQUINE EXPERIENCE-HORSE N' AROUND CAMPS

PM US TO SIGN UP TODAY! OR

Check out our Website: https://www.back2basiks.me/

07/19/2025

This 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 this is what we’re all about over here !! I am not perfect at it but this is where my values are.

06/01/2025

Are you wanting SUMMER 2025 programming? SIGN UP IS ENDING JUNE 2!
Happening in the next 24-48 hours? LOTS! ☺️🥸
1. Early Bird for NEW SUMMER 2025 Clients ends midnight tonight! SEE Booking link to waitlist and sign up. We are moving onto fall and will be done with SUMMER 2025 bookings until end of JULY!
2. INTERIM SUMMER 2025 posted for JUNE ONLY. SIGN your kids up for the classes they will be attending before JUNE 5th as we will be cancelling classes we don't have a minimum of 3 kiddo's attending or changing it to 1:2 support sessions for those parents interested.
3. KJ will be offering Parent Consultations, Coffee Chats, TUTORING ON ACADEMICS. 1:1 Mini Lessons with the horses in Small groups as well as gearing down for SUMMER BLAS 2025 and some well deserved ADULTING time. 🤪
4. KJ will send out NEWSLETTERS, CONSTANT CONTACT, as well as social media updates and emails for communication. Please include subject headings when sending Emails so that his team can assist him with what they can for now.
Thank you all so much! Enjoy the nice weather, and we look forward to SUMMER BLAST 2025! Welcome to JUNE where everyone falls apart, routines are gone, we're all burnt out from the School year and we don't always know what day it is.

05/21/2025

Yes 🙌🏼 This, I see it first hand. The ones that go inward and wear the cloak and people don’t experience their pain those kiddos don’t always get the attention and support they need.

05/07/2025

This is why Academie Middle Ground we see beyond the behaviours and look for the “why” the communications and what skills may be lacking that we can teach to these kids!

Because just like horses, most of us just want to be seen, loved and supported even if we fight all of those very things because they feel unsafe 💗

“When a horse gets in trouble, if you'll listen, he's saying, “I wasn't sure what I was supposed to do, and besides that, I was scared.” ✍️Buster McLaury

05/03/2025

There are sooo many ways to support Foster/ Adoptive & Permanency Families as well as preventing Children & Youth going into care in the first place. We do 5/9 of these things here at A Middle Ground.

It’s been my lifelong dream to be where I am today and the System is Broken, it needs reform, but also? We can help those in the system, we can support people trying to support families, kiddos, caregivers ect.

We can be someone that shows these young ones that the world is not as savage & wild as their little brains and bodies think they are.

How did I get where I am today? Because of a village of people in my life who saw me for me, who encouraged me to be myself, who loved me wholeheartedly even though my behaviour was “unloveable”..

Children deserve love because they are children, not because they can meet our needs 💗💗