DESERT HORSE STAFF MEMBERS

Stacey Kollman
Trainer,,Horse Rehabber and Clinician

Stacey's involvement with horses over the past 30-plus years has ranged from ranch work to the show ring and spanned disciplines from western pleasure to dressage and gymkhana to jumping. She has learned from top competitors in events such as reining, hunters/jumpers and eventing and studied Connected Riding and Connected Groundwork with clinician Peggy Cummings for a decade. In addition, she is certified in equine sports massage therapy and acutherapy and is a Usui reiki master. She has 15 years experience in equine rehab, working with horses from a variety of disciplines, including hunters and jumpers, dressage and eventing competitors, barrel and rope horses, and pleasure mounts.

Her recent work with horses has focused on rehabilitating equine athletes and teaching riders to apply basic biomechanics to improve balance and suppleness. She teaches a variety of innovative clinics and workshops and offers lessons and workshops at several locations in and around Tucson.

Stacey teaches a series of ground and mounted exercises that help humans and horses interact in a way that maximizes the balance and movement of each to create a good partnership in motion. The groundwork starts with leading exercises that get horse and handler in touch with their bodies and progresses to helping horses work on a longe line or free longe in a correct posture to minimize physical stress. Mounted work begins with rebalancing exercises that help each rider find the most stable position in the saddle, then puts that position in motion in a way that invites and allows the horse to work in balance and self-carriage. This work is suitable for all levels of riders and all disciplines.

Stacey's overriding philosophy of training horses and riders is based on the premise that every horse and every person should feel better physically and mentally after a practice or training session.

JENNY Kendall
CERTIFIED YOGA TEACHER

Jenny has practiced yoga for 15 years and has been teaching hatha yoga for about 8 years. She is certified by the Providence Institute in Tucson and teaches "Peaceful Yoga" at Sunstone Healing Center and Yoga House at Civano. She also teaches a specialized Yoga for Equestrians class weekly at Grand Adventures Ranch in Sonoita.

She was called to complete her yoga certification by a horse named Ichobod, whom she salutes in the photo at left. She shares the gift of yoga with people and their animal companions that their lives may be happier, more peaceful and more balanced.

A horsewoman since childhood, she trained and showed horses for many years and partnered with her Arabian mare, Jasmine, in competitive trail.

Jenny has a master's degree in animal science from Purdue University and studied equine exercise physiology at the doctoral level at Kansas State University.

Check out Desert Horse Yoga or email Jenny for more information.