Deanna Preis Horsemanship at Shade Tree Stables

Deanna Preis Horsemanship at Shade Tree Stables Using compassion to work with horses and their people to create healthier movement and longevity.

The pitfalls of learning from books and videos, is that you don't have a trained eye on you to support your understandin...
09/17/2025

The pitfalls of learning from books and videos, is that you don't have a trained eye on you to support your understanding of concepts.

Doing exercises incorrectly for too long, can deeply engrain incorrect movement. It's always a good idea to get an experienced eye on you sooner, rather than later. This support can help you steer clear of teaching poor movement patterns that are later hard to redirect because they are so deeply engrained in the nervous system.

Time and money are always in short supply, so make sure you are spending both wisely!

I speak regularly about how horses need to learn to learn, but the reality is, so do the people. That often involves sh...
09/17/2025

I speak regularly about how horses need to learn to learn, but the reality is, so do the people. That often involves shutting one's mouth 🤭

We have 2 ears and 1 mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak ❤

09/12/2025

Truth 😘😘😘

Hug Your Horse : Hidalgo Leather Tree Consultant Tiffani, and I were invited back for the second time to the beautiful P...
09/09/2025

Hug Your Horse : Hidalgo Leather Tree Consultant Tiffani, and I were invited back for the second time to the beautiful Pacific Northwest for another collaboration clinic with Happy Hearts Horsemanship .

The recurring theme for each horse and human pair seemed to be peeling back the layers to expose the true foundational holes, and providing tools and exercises specific to each horse's conformation, physical compensation or balance struggles. These were often the same exercise with a specific tweak for each horse to allow them to fully benefit from the exercise and not to just do the name of the exercise without seeing any long term benefits. As we know, the horse will always take the path of least resistance, and if we're not aware, they will "cheat" the exercise in order to make it easier for them to continue with their preferred way of moving.

It's always about going back to the basics and reconfirming a solid foundation each time we move forward to a new exercise, or at a faster gait.

2026 is already filling. If you are interested in booking an in person date, reach out now for availability, or to be added to the wait-list for my Members+ program if you would like personalized training online.

A lovely day 1 with such variety of horses in ages, breeds, and stages of development.
09/07/2025

A lovely day 1 with such variety of horses in ages, breeds, and stages of development.

Of course if our horse is hurting, or telling us they can't, we should listen, and hopefully we don't want to ride throu...
09/05/2025

Of course if our horse is hurting, or telling us they can't, we should listen, and hopefully we don't want to ride through that.

But, all ethics aside, some horses just aren't safe to ride, and it's not fair to them or us, to try to do so.

There are plenty of good horses out there. There is no point trying to ride one that you have a greater risk of getting hurt on. I don't care how much you love it, or how much you paid for it, what your expectations were, YOU ARE PRECIOUS CARGO.

Not every person has the body to be an athlete, and not every horse has the ability to be ridden. It is 100% ok to cut your losses. I don't care what other people at the barn say, what your husband says, or what other people's expectations are of what you should be doing with your horse!

Does your dog pull a sled? Do search and rescue? Work for the police K9 unit? Oh, it's just a dog, and you care for it, and enjoy that? It's ok for that to be the case with horses too ;)

On today's episode of, "Is he dead, or is he napping?", Gustavo finds that he can't work under these conditions. He jus...
09/05/2025

On today's episode of, "Is he dead, or is he napping?", Gustavo finds that he can't work under these conditions. He just has to know, is he dead? ...... or is he napping? 🤣🤣🤣

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