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Sarah Zeman Horsemanship, LLC

We offer clinics, lessons on your horse, monthly training, and the tools you need to keep progressing

06/28/2025

Today was a wrap for my 2025 training season! I’m making some changes to my program and will be taking a break from bringing in training horses for the foreseeable future.

I try to constantly improve and gain knowledge in this industry and the more that I learn the harder it is for me to take in horses for a month or more at a time. The reason is because 95% of the time horses aren’t sound. They are either in need of bodywork thats more than a one time visit, or a saddle doesn’t fit well or their teeth are not good, so many examples I could give, and those things create pain and discomfort or at the least an inability to move like I want them to be able to move. It is against everything in me to try and push them through discomfort or pain to try and get a behavior that is desired. My whole desire for training is getting to the mind of the horse and getting a calm and willing riding partner.

It saddens me because I love what I do in regards to being able to teach horses new things. But I love teaching people how to teach their horses more. Which is why that will be my main focus until I can figure out how to make sure a horse is coming in sound and stays sound through the training cycles.

Clinics will still be offered, I’m happy to come help work with your horse at your facility as well as my own. Need help trailer loading? I’ll be there for you. It’s just taking in horses for months at a time is what I will be stepping back from.

Thank you to everyone who has trusted me with their horses over the last 14 years. It’s crazy for me to think about it being that long. I might revisit this at another point in time. This is just where I am in my journey of horsemanship.

I have a few people that I can recommend if you are looking to send your horse somewhere. But please don’t wait until one or two months before you want them sent. Good people are busy and often require several months if not a year in advance to book! 😊

I am off on vacation with my family for the next couple weeks. Happy trails everyone!

06/25/2025

Talia practicing ground driving this morning! She went all the way around the property like a champ, first time out of the arena. It’s the next best thing to riding them around the property. They need to lead the way and so they start gaining confidence in themselves and their abilities while knowing you’re still there.

06/22/2025

Personal and training horses got baths today. The wind certainly helps but I think everyone thoroughly enjoyed bath day today!

06/13/2025

Talia came in beginning of May. She had slowly progressed to getting more and more anxious when being tied before she came here. So many horses are anxious while tied. We’ve all seen it, pawing, pacing, looking all over, on alert… I’ve had the privilege to work at a therapy barn where they do a lot of focus on kids with different attachment styles. In turn, they use a program to help horses through their attachment styles as well! Some horses, like Talia, need you right by them. If you get two feet away, or when you go behind them to switch sides, they react by being alert, pawing, or quickly moving so they can see you on their other side. This video shows the progression of how to work with a horse that doesn’t want to stand calmly while being tied using the “detachment while still connected” method. The first video my hands are all over Talia at all times as I go from side to side. I put a standstill cue on her by lifting my finger up and telling her to “whoa”. And then I continue on moving from side to side.The first video of her in the barn was actually a progress video from what she was like when she first came. But you can see she still wants to be on alert and she thinks about pawing even though she can see me, and I am only a little ways away.Then I work through the same thing in the arena, except I work my way up to keeping my hands off of her and walking in complete circles around her while she stands completely still and hopefully relaxed. Then I do the same work in the barn. I keep her untied while I do everything and tell her to stand still just like I do in the arena. Once I feel she has that understood, then I tie her up and do the same thing when she’s tied. The last video shows you how you can go from having an alert, on guard, restless horse when being tied, to nice and relaxed with soft eyes and not much worry at all.Thanks to Laurabeth and Bien Aime Farm, I have learned a whole different way for teaching a horse to stand still when tied, and I prefer this method above all other methods because it really gets to the root of working with the mind of the horse and builds trust between horse and human.
Bien Aimé Farm MN

06/01/2025

Have you ever seen so many beautiful horses in the same place?! What a great day yesterday. Sammi came out to teach us more about Working Equitation. Her passion for the sport and great teaching skills made for a sucessful clinic. I can’t think of a much better way to spend the day with horses and friends.

05/12/2025

CLINICS
I am so late to the game! This year has been a little different than most and I have a couple clinics on the books already but here are some available weekends that I would like to put on clinics at my place in Corcoran.
These are tentativeve and dates are flexible. I’d love to hear what peaks the most interest. I’d also be open to a round pen clinic and a trailer loading clinic if those were of interest to people. Please comment with thoughts/preferences!

Aug 9 - Softness/Body Control L1 (shoulder control, rib control, no pulling on bit, start of hip control, responsive stops, pivots, backing) 9am-3pm $175 lunch included

Aug 23- Obstacle Clinic
9am-2pm $175 lunch included

Sept 13 - Softness/Body Control L2 - *only open to those that have completed a L1 in the past* how to engage the hips, haunches in, side passing, half passing, straight lines, pivots, correct leads, starting the flying changes
9am-3pm $175 lunch included

Sept 27 - Connection Work - this will be lots of ground work and emotion work like if your horse gets anxious, wont stand tied, doesn’t look to you for the next move (if you didn’t have a lead on, they would leave) and possibly some riding work building on the ground work
9am-3pm $175 lunch included

05/02/2025

Say “hi” to El! El is an off the track sulky racer and his owner has been riding him for a couple years but he’s fast! So we are going to work on some confidence, balance, speed control, and relaxation this coming month.

04/29/2025

Look at this pretty lady! This is Talia and I’m very excited to work with her for the next two months. If you followed me last year, you remember her pasture mate Amari. Amari was so much fun and super smart. Talia seems to be following suit! We got a lot accomplished on our first day of getting to know each other. We played around a lot and worked a lot on working with relaxation and calmness. She’s a smart horse and picked things up so fast, I’m excited to see what we get to do together!

04/27/2025

Hopefully we don’t need these and the weather forecast simmers down a bit, but it’s not a bad idea to be prepared for some severe storms if you’re in the MN/WI areas. We used cattle ear tags to put our information on with zip ties as loops and braided them in the horses manes. Stay safe!

04/26/2025

14 years ago today I started a life changing journey by attending John and Josh Lyons Certificaton program Josh Lyons/Lyons Legacy The chances I’ve had and the knowledge gained over the years would not have been possible if not for the Lyons family. I’ve had the joy of getting to watch friends like Brendan Wise and Michael Lyons Horsemanship and Max Morin Performance Horses go on to do amazing things and am reminded of the fun and the relationships these amazing animals can bring us.

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