Desert Horse Equestrian Services - Horse Rehabilitation, Training, Rider Education

Build a Better Relationship with your horse
while you Improve Your Riding Skills

Knowledge of anatomy and movement, consideration for the physical and mental challenges of horse and human and a dedication to the comfort and safety of both combine in a unique teaching and learning atmosphere. Join us in exploration and innovation, finding new ways that mounted and unmounted interactions can interest, educate and delight you and your horse.

Equestrian Education
Workshops, Clinics, Lessons

Lessons and clinics that combine traditional and non-traditional riding and groundwork techniques in a variety of interesting and innovative formats. Learn better balance and stability in the saddle, improve your relationship with your horse on the ground and explore rewarding alternatives to riding.

Riding instructor, clinician and bodyworker Stacey Kollman works with dedicated professionals to bring you innovative educational opportunities.

Riders and horses learn balance in a non-threatening atmosphere

Equine bodywork and horse ground exercises are an important part of rehabilitating or reschooling a horse.

Rehabilitating and reschooling horses are ridden for suppleness, balance and self-carriage.

Horse Rehab/Re-education

Trainer and rehabber Stacey Kollman works to prepare equine athletes physically and mentally to return to their jobs - show ring, work or pleasure - and reschool "second-career horses" to meet new challenges and expectations.

Rehab is a holistic process, often involving a variety of professional equine-care specialists working to return a horse to physical and emotional health. The process includes a custom-tailored balance of work, combining various kinds of bodywork, a type of groundwork specifically geared to physical therapy, longe work on a line and at liberty, and mounted work. Attention is also given to a variety of other health areas, including nutrition, feet and teeth. Rehab horses might be recovering from physical injuries or be returning to a more constructive life after some kind of abuse or neglect.

Reschooling involves a blend of the same techniques to help address physical and mental challenges that may be preventing horses from performing as well as they might. Horses who are candidates include individuals who have proven unsuitable for a particular "job," those who have become overstressed, physically and mentally, in a specific discipline, and older horses or broodmares returning to work after a layoff.

What's New?

Doc's Life or Death Decision, the day-to-day account of a rehab horse facing an important deadline. Will this 20-year-old horse regain enough soundness to keep doing some version of the job he loves or will his owner decide he's too debilitated and choose a humane end to his life and work?

Read the newest installments in the series on Longing in Balance and learn to Access the Elements of Self-Carriage or teach your horse the Pendulum and rock back to go forward.

Save these dates ...
RideAware Rider Body Awareness unmounted intensive body biomechanics workshops June 20 and July 18 at Yoga House at Civano.

Sunday morning mounted yoga classes June 21 and July 12 at River Valley Ranch. Just email Jenny Kendall to sign up!

Deep Core Intensive mat yoga for riders and other athletes July 11 and August 1 at Yoga House at Civano. These are filling fast!