Morelli Ranch

08/22/2024

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Sleeping Horse Flower Bed

07/09/2024

Good opportunity to thank the wonderful ferriers!

July 4-10, 2024 is National Farriers Week! We invite you to join us in our celebration of farriers! Without them, our horses wouldn't be able to perform at their best. Thank your farrier this week for all they do!

07/08/2024

Schleese will be returning to Morelli Ranch in August for an 80 point saddle fit inspection. For a fitting register at the link below and join the saddle fit for life revolution!

Find out exactly what you and your horse need from the comfort of your own home.   The online process allows for a fast solution without having to attend or wait for a Professional On-site evaluation near you.

04/19/2024

Fun night practicing horsemanship/groundwork skills. I love to see everyone put their skills to work. Definitely love seeing problem solving skills, patience’s and learning to regulate emotions through difficulties. This is some of my favorite teaching moments

04/11/2024

04/10/2024

Patience.

04/06/2024

Horse tip for the day

Write down three positive emotions that you want to feel when you are with your horse. Next time before you enter your horse's stall or paddock, take a moment to remind yourself of your positive emotions. As you are riding or interacting with your horse, keep reminding yourself of these emotions.

Did you know that horses can read your body language and your facial expressions? Horses are herd animals, they can read other horse's body language, and they can also read yours! They know when you're angry, or sad. And they sense when you love them and believe in them.

When I am with my horses, I focus on feeling happy, proud, and optimistic. What do you wish to feel the next time you are with your horse

03/30/2024

Happy Easter. Wishing you many blessings on this holiday

03/22/2024

Hi all! Schleese saddle fitters are coming in April. For those of you who are having saddle fit problems here is your chance! They are amazing! I will post the link to sign up below. You have to sign up by the end of march to get a saddle fit appointment

Find out exactly what you and your horse need from the comfort of your own home. The online process allows for a fast solution without having to attend or wait for a Professional On-site evaluation near you.

03/18/2024

I just read this and thought it was great! Most of our lessons are small (semi-private 1 to 4 riders). I also love to work in plenty of breaks for horse and rider. Turns out this is a great way to learn for both horse and rider!

An underrated use of time you should include in your riding lesson plans:

Brain breaks! 😴

These are frequent opportunities to stop and rest, which actually accelerates the speed at which a student learns a new skill.

We observed the power of brain breaks when we started teaching primarily group lessons - and noticed that students in our small groups often improved faster than they did in private lessons. Positive reinforcement training can also teach you a LOT about the importance and timing of breaks, since reward-based training with horses works best in very short chunks of time. ⏱️

Turns out there is actually some science behind this; there’s at least one study (2019, “A Rapid Form of Offline Consolidation in Skill Learning” 🤓) demonstrating that repetitive practice works best with frequent breaks.

If you teach group lessons, your students may naturally get these breathers when they take turns riding an exercise, pattern or course. It’s still a good idea to let the whole group share some downtime every now and then. If you’re teaching a private lesson, you will have to deliberately make space for break time.

It can be tempting to spend these periods reviewing unmounted HorseSense topics, and we’re all for working these discussions into mounted lessons, but brain breaks should truly feel like rest.

We are often still amazed at how much better both horse and rider perform after we press pause ⏸️ on the action!

03/15/2024

Photography of the day ❤️

10/27/2023

Our first Glow in the Dark Night was sooooo much fun! So much fun maybe we will do a Christmas Light Night

10/14/2023

Wow!!! What an amazing show we had. I’ve been on a high all week and my heart is full🥰 Thank you to all who participated! Every participant was beyond kind and pitched in to help each other. Thank you to so many who volunteered to help! Special thanks to Gina dirks for creating flyers and getting the word out and arranging Mona Lisa food truck. The food was amazing . Brittany Clark, thank you for putting our logo onto all of the bags. Joyce grycle thank you for shopping and grabbing all of my last minute requests.
Suzanne Cabral and Devon wochele for helping coordinate horses and students the day of the show. To our wonderful judges Mary and Ellen who were objective, kind and gave wonderful feedback . To all of the parents who helped with tacking and untacking and moving saddles from horse to horse. To all of the families and friends who came to support our wonderful students! I prayed for safety , fun and many blessings and that was exactly how I would describe the day❤️🐴. Everyone had so much fun! Wish I would have gotten more pictures but the day was super busy. Here are a few. Please feel free to post or send me more pictures and I will post

10/11/2023

KIDS NIGHT OUT
Glow in the dark horse ride night

09/29/2023

Fun lesson playing chutes and ladders, for the young and young, lol

09/23/2023

It was a perfect night of Horses, Yoga, wine and cheese. We all had so much fun! Thank you ladies for a great evening ❤️🐴

09/15/2023

Every horse and every ride teaches us something ❤️

I hope one day you meet a difficult horse.

A horse that frustrates you and sometimes says no.

A horse that shatters your dreams and makes you feel hopeless because you cannot solve their problem with what you know.

Why would I wish this upon you?

Because this horse will show you the limitations of your understanding and challenge you to step up and learn.

Sometimes the lessons you will need to learn is to improve your knowledge, skills and self awareness and how you directly impact the horse and make the feel.

You will work hard spending hours in the dust, sun, wind and rain making yourself better to help this horse - and you will do it.

Sometimes the lesson will be one of acceptance that the horse you love and have poured so much time and money into is not sound.

Your heart will break as you now see your difficult horse was just telling you it was struggling.

This horse will teach you to see and know things about horses that you will never be able to un-see or un-know. You will see horses struggling and people (no different than you past self) blind to that struggle.

But this horse will make you a better horsewoman or man, and you will be grateful they came into your life and what they taught you.

The story of you and this horse will always be a hard story to tell. Sometimes when you tell it, you will get tears in your eyes. But it will be one of the most meaningful stories of your life.

You will share this story with others with the hope that it will help them with their horse. So that your horse, can help their horse too.

This is my difficult horse. His name was Skuda and I am grateful what this horse taught me...and if I have helped you with your horse.....well you can be grateful for him too ❤

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09/09/2023

Fun night with Morelli Ranch student volunteers! Thank you for your hard work this summer, girls!

09/02/2023

Save the date

Yoga, horses, wine and cheese evening, September 16th

Morelli Ranch vaccination clinic, September 23rd

Morelli Ranch fall on the farm show , October 8th

Kids night out of fun and glow in the dark horses, October 20th

Detailed information to come shortly

08/26/2023

Develop an attitude of gratitude 😊

08/20/2023

Love this. It explains so much!

Recent studies conducted by the Institute of Heart-Math provide a clue to explain the two-way ′′healing′′ that occurs when we're close to horses.
According to researchers, the heart has an electromagnetic field larger than the brain: a magnetometer can measure the energy field of the heart that radiates from 2.4 meters to 3 meters around the human body.
While this is certainly significant, perhaps more impressive than the electromagnetic field projected by the heart of a horse is five times larger than that of a human being (imagine an electromagnetic sphere around the horse) and it can influence straight into our own heart rate.
Horses are also likely to have what science has identified as a "coherent′′ heart rate (heart rate pattern) that explains why we can feel better when we're close to them. Studies have found a coherent heart pattern or HRV to be a solid measure of well-being and consistent with emotional states of calm and joy-that is, we exhibit such patterns when we feel positive emotions.
A coherent heart pattern is indicative of a system that can recover and adapt to stressful situations very efficiently. Many times, we just need to be in the presence of horses to feel a sense of well-being and peace.
In fact, research shows that people experience many physiological benefits by interacting with horses, including lower blood pressure and heart rate, higher beta-endorphins (neurotransmitters acting as pain suppressors), decreased stress levels, decreased feelings of anger, hostility, tension and anxiety, better social working; and greater feelings of empowerment, confidence, patience and self-efficacy.

07/09/2023

Congratulations Jane on a great show with Doc! Look at all those ribbons!

07/08/2023

Look at our beautiful “champions”!!! Way to go Darcy and Rain look at all those first place ribbons! We are so proud of you. Credits to Payton Morelli for great training, Darcy for persistence and hard work and Heidi French for believing and encouragement!

06/30/2023

Come join us for a saddle fit lecture and demo with schleese saddles. Contact Sheila Morelli

06/08/2023

Schleese saddle fitters will be back in July. If you missed out the first time around or need to have a saddle checked, please use the link below to register before Monday. They require registrations before they can pin down a date.

Register on our Events page here: https://events.schleese.com/event?fws=2 Choose the CO/NM event, then click on the green "Book a Fitting" button to register.

Apr Saddle Fittings Ontario (SPRING) Saddle Fitting Sessions - General Registrations Organizer: Schleese Saddlery Service Ltd. April 1, 2023 - 9:00 AM

06/07/2023

Fun horse camp days!