X Factor Equine Performance

12/21/2025

These are the days that make a person's heart, mind, and skills grow exponentially.

Through connection, collaboration, and kindness we get to experience the magic and privilege of helping not just animals, but each other, heal, grow, and get stronger at everything we do as a team ❤️ a truly wonderful, heartwarming, and fun Christmas gift🎄✨️🎁🦄

I have so many incredible people in my life and beyond lucky to know these fabulous women in this picture!

This afternoon great minds came together to work on our beloved equines literally from head to tail! I will call them the dream team for sure.

Huge shoutout to X Factor Equine Performance, Erin Bergold, for driving through insane weather from NY to my door to yield her equine osteopathy skills. We met last year and I treasure all I have learned from her thus far and all the incredible changes she has made in my horses.
Thank you Dr. Aly and Canon Hill Veterinary Clinic from the bottom of my heart for always sharing your knowledge, skills and time with us. Your work is absolutely incredible and we value you greatly.
Lastly thank you Taylor Gebhart for your amazing dentistry skills. Your patience and attention to detail along with your knowledge are very appreciated. It was so wonderful to see three professionals coming together and making lasting changes with our horses. A year ago these same three lovely ladies came together at this farm for a very similar experience. Now a year later we are seeing even better results and it makes my heart so happy to see the progress!

12/14/2025

10/21/2025

📢 Vote for last official 2025 Ohio trip dates! 📢

🍁🍂Oct 31-Nov 2 (Halloween weekend)
--Or--
🍁🍂Nov 14-16

Comment your preference and tag friends!

09/29/2025

HAPPY NATIONAL COFFEE DAY!!! 😍☕ -- Also, stay tuned for October and November trip announcements in the coming week! 🍂🍁

09/24/2025

Everyone, we'd like you to give "Magic" a warm welcome to the -Family as our very own, very first case study horse. Stay tuned for intriguing developments on our boy!

09/24/2025

Everyone, we like you to give "Magic" a warm welcome to the -Family as our very own, very first formal case study horse. Stay tuned for intriguing developments on our boy!

08/23/2025

In this episode of Echoes & Embers, we sit down with internationally recognized osteopath Janek Vluggen to explore the deep science, philosophy, and practice...

08/22/2025

📢 Possible Labor Day trip? Y/N?✨️UPDATE✨️

Sat - East Liberty, OH (1 slot possibly open)
Sun - West Farmington, OH (2 slots open)
Mon - Marietta, OH (full)

Just putting feelers out for Labor day. I've got 3 days for whoever can fill 7 slots a day!

Drop a DM or comment with your location and number of horses, or what dates work in the next month if Labor day absolutely can't work.

☆☆ Important: will need to eliminate extraneous travel and work out of centrally located barns to be efficient with the limited time. Ideally, staying in one barn a day that would be ok with haul-ins is great. So feel free to tag and share with friends and barn mates to coordinate as many horses in one place as possible. Thanks everyone!

Hopefully see you all soon!

07/10/2025

🎉📢 Attention Ohio! 📢🎉

A trip to Ohio from the 14th to the 19th is in the works!

🎉 UPDATE! Dr Natalie Simmons will be offering pelvic room mobilizations the 16th or 17th at a set location in NW OH! Message asap as slots are very limited!

🎉 In order to get to as many animals in a short time span as possible, utilizing centralized barns per region for folks to haul into

🎉 Dog sessions now offered! Dogs must be UTD on rabies, be able to lie on side and back for long stretches of time and be muzzled for liability purposes. (Can bring muzzle or use ours).

🎉 Be sure to state the number of animals, location, whether you can haul or host, and what days/times you're available and we'll try to get as many folks on the schedule as we can!

14th - *dogs only - (full)
15th - *dogs only - 4 slots open
16th - NW OH (1 slot open) *Pelvic room day!
17th - NW OH (Full)
18th - NE OH (Full) *Pelvic Room Day!
19th - (Full)

See you all soon! 😊🎉🙌

06/29/2025

🐕 📢 Calling all dog owners! 📢 🐕

🐕‍🦺 Does your good old boy/girl seem to run out of steam playing fetch these days? Or struggle with aches, pains, or digestive inconsistency?

🐕‍🦺 Does your fluff not mind (or even enjoy) being handled in all kinds of ways?

🐕‍🦺 Is your pup a seasoned pro at laying on its side and back?

🐕‍🦺 Or do you happen to be a showman or sportsman looking to increase performance for your next competition?

If so, you're in luck!

X Factor, your trusted equine osteopath, EDO, now offers fully certified canine osteopathy to aid in your dogs performance and soundness!

PM for session details and appointment requests. See you and your pup soon! 🥰

06/13/2025

"There are big days and there are small days, which will it be?" - Ted Narracott in Warhorse (2011).

Today was meant to be a big day. I couldn't be prouder of the journey, the education, the animals, family, or the best friends that saw this accomplishment through to the end.

Bring on all the new adventures, world. I, along with all the other talented ladies in the Canine Class of 2025, are ready for it 😁🎉👏🐕

A special, heartfelt thanks to Kate and Chloe 🥰

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04/28/2025

Late post, but what a great Canine Osteopathy course we had at the new Vluggen Institute Headquarters in Florida! Looking forward to going back in June!