Precision Saddlery & Bodywork

10/19/2025

PDS is proud to work with the very best in the sport, supporting champion horses and riders 🫶🏽

10/17/2025

Thank you Allison! I’m so glad that you love your saddle!

10/15/2025

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10/12/2025

10/08/2025

Isn't life funny sometimes....

I was asked about my qualifications this morning by a new client, and I found myself being pensive about responding. I simply told her to visit my website to see my training and experience. About 10 minutes later, I got a call back from that lovely rider, and she let me have it.

She explained to me that she never knew the difference between saddle fitters and saddle reps, or how to tell who is knowledgeable as an equine bodyworker, and who isn't. She told me that it is frustrating for horse owners to sift through the ads and posts and determine who to trust. She said that we need to be better about self promotion and "boast a bit" to help our clients find us.

So after listening intently, and becoming very uncomfortable with the thought of self promotion, I agreed to give it a go. I apologize in advance if this seems arrogant. I don’t mean for it to be.

Here is my story, and I sincerely hope that my other colleagues "boast a bit" too!

I am currently one of only 25 Certified Q.S.F. Saddle Fitters in the United States with the Society of Master Saddlers. I hold a saddle fitting certification from the Mike Scott Saddlery School, and completed the three year program at I.V.A.T that included saddle fitting as well. I have also trained at the North American Saddlery School.

I have completed extensive training in equine physiotherapy modalities including Traditional Chinese Medicine, Acupuncture, Osteopathy, Myofascial Release, Trigger Point Therapy, Equine Sports Massage Therapy, T-Touch, Equine Touch, Homeopathy, Therapeutic Laser Technology, and Chinese Herbs.

I've attended 5 full body dissection courses with 3 different experts including Dr. Deb Bennett, Dr. Ivana Ruddock, and Dr. Sharon May Davis. These ladies are AMAZING.

I completed an amateur level farrier course along with a 2 day dissection course of feet and legs with that training.

While we are name dropping, I’ve had the pleasure of learning from Dr. Peggy Fleming for 30 years. She deserves her own line in this post. If you dont know her, you should.

I am certified by the I.V.C.A. and the A.V.C.A. as a saddle fit educator.

I am a saddle development consultant for one of the largest, and most well known saddle makers in the world.

I may be biased, but I work with some of the most talented, and respected trainers in the world.

I have been featured in two magazine articles for my work in equine bodywork and saddle fitting.

I have been working on horses professionally for over 20 years, following many years of career specific schooling and training after college.

I am also a certified Intuitive Life Coach, which enables me to really hear my clients concerns and needs.

I am a member in good standing with the International Association of Animal Bodyworkers, the Society of Master Saddlers, and the Intuitive Life Coaching Academy.

I am currently enrolled in an Osteopathy program, and am studying to continue on to get my Master Saddle Fitting Certification, and more education in bit and bridle fitting.
I am also enrolled in a PHD program in metaphysics.

I'm sure that I am forgetting something, but that is enough to get started.

Thank you for reading my bit of boasting.

https://precisionsaddlery.com/

https://www.sarasotamagazine.com/arts-and-entertainment/2019/12/it-takes-a-team-to-help-a-horse-perform-at-its-best

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09/30/2025

Catch me on Horse Radio Network, I'm featured in this week's episode on Gelding scars

https://player.captivate.fm/episode/1193996d-afa3-43e9-85db-6b8881a551f3/

09/30/2025

The Horse’s Body: The Mothership of All the Sh*t You’re Missing

Some people are obsessed with whether their horse “respects” them, like an electric fence in the supposed dominance hierarchy life.

Others whip out the dressage protractor, arguing over millimetres behind the vertical, like equine geometry teachers with an axe to grind.

Then there are the emotional detectives, squinting at micro-gestures and “calming signals” like amateur FBI agents, waiting for a horse to sign a verbal contract of consent - or better yet, “release.”

Me? I don’t worship at any of those altars.

It’s like diagnosing appendicitis by debating whether the patient’s eyebrow twitched or their sigh was passive-aggressive… while the actual gut is about to burst.

I care about what the horse understands.

I care about how they feel.

I care about how the move or more correctly - can move.

But all of it comes back to patterns: the history etched into their muscles, the present sketched in how they move today, and the future written in what their body will allow.

That’s where the real story is - not in respect points, emotional tarot cards, or geometry wars.

So if you want to get past symptoms and into sense-making? Start looking at the horse’s patterns. That’s the textbook they’ve been writing on themselves all along.

This is Collectable Advice 38/365 from my notebook challenge—save it, share it, tattoo it on your arm if you must… just don’t copy-paste.

IMAGE 📸: This horse struggled with "respect", "contact" and had moments of "emotional dysregulation"....can you SEE why? 😎

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