Schleese Livestreams – October 2025

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Schleese Marketing Lead at Madison@schleese.com.

• Michaela Magan – mickiemaganequineherbalist
  October 6, 2025 @ 6:00 pm EDT
  Michaela is an equine herbalist and bodyworker specializing in Equine Myofascial Therapy. She uses a lot of red light and pressure points. Michaela sees many horses with sore backs and locked-up pelvises and believes it has a lot to do with saddle fit.

• Emmalee Thompson – emmaleeawake.eq
  October 14, 2025 @ 9:00 am EDT
  Emmalee is a returning adult amateur rider, equestrian content creator, and advocate for holistic horse care. After an 8-year break due to a severe jumping accident, she’s now rebuilding her partnership with her Thoroughbred mare, Vela, with a focus on connection-based training and biologically appropriate care. Emmalee shares her journey educating and inspiring other riders to prioritize the physical and emotional well-being of their horses while challenging outdated industry norms.

• Alice Ross – bodyworkbyalice
  October 16, 2025 @ 2:30 pm EST
  Alice is an Equine and Canine bodyworker (soon to add humans to the list!), currently based in Cheshire (North West England). She focuses on fascia and trauma release, the impact that both physical and emotional tension has on the body. After leaving school, Alice spent six years living and working in South Africa as a trail guide and rider before returning to the UK in 2019 to focus on building her bodywork business there.

• Heidi Kucera – knabstrupperstallion
  October 16, 2025 @ 4:30 pm EDT
  Heidi describes herself as an extreme horse hobbyist and has owned and ridden horses her entire life. Horses have always been her greatest passion. Heidi is a former division one athlete (swimmer and water polo player) and has a PhD in Pharmacology and Toxicology from UC Davis. Even though Heidi has owned and ridden horses her whole life, she never understood how to check if a saddle truly fit her horses. A YouTube video that Jochen made on the basics of saddle fit that changed Heidi’s understanding. This video was the first time Heidi was introduced to the saddle support area, and why her horse needs a saddle. This was groundbreaking and provided her with knowledge to help her horses feel better in their saddles. Heidi and her family are forever grateful for this knowledge, and their horses are even more so.

• Carmi Reimer – https://www.instagram.com/300.dollar.dancer/
  October 17, 2025 @ 3:00 pm EST
  Carmi lives near Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada, and has one horse, a sweet, extroverted rescue mare whom she saved from slaughter, and has been training entirely on her own in low-level dressage, using Positive Reinforcement training approaches. Carmi originally grew up riding her brothers’ western project horses, but has always dreamt of riding English. Now she finally gets to live all her wildest English rider dreams, and is super lucky to get to make this journey with the best mare by her side!

• Lizelle van Tonder – equine.symmetry
  October 20, 2025 @ 9:00 am EDT
  With over 27 years of experience in the equestrian world, Lizelle van Tonder has dedicated her life to a single mission: helping horses love their jobs. Her work profoundly shaped her journey to becoming a Master Saddle Fitting Consultant at a special needs riding school, where she prepared ex-racehorses and endurance horses for new careers. It was here that she witnessed firsthand the powerful and often painful impact of poor saddle fit and management on an animal’s body and spirit. Lizelle’s passion for equine welfare led her to study under Dr. Gerry van Oossanen in France, where she obtained her Saddle Fitting Qualification. She continues her education with additional courses in bit fitting, equine behaviour, and saddle making, ensuring a comprehensive, holistic approach to equine well-being. Today, as the founder of Equine Symmetry, Lizelle aims to empower horse owners with the knowledge to make informed, ethical choices. Her mission is to help others understand the deep connection between proper tack, management, and a horse’s long-term health and happiness.

• Dr. Robyn Kopala & Dr. Hannah Morrison – meadow_lane_equine
  October 20, 2025 @ 10:00 am EST
  Meadow Lane Equine Clinic is based outside of Vancouver, Canada. It is a 3-veterinarian general equine practice with a strong focus on sports horse medicine. Its veterinarians are certified by ISELP (in advanced musculoskeletal ultrasound), acupuncture and chiropractic,  as well as the FEI as a treating veterinarian.

• Steffi Spielhaupter – scienceforsoundness
  October 20, 2025 @ 3:30 pm EST
  Steffi is an Equine Scientist (MSc) and Equine Therapist (ESMT). She provides support with individual journeys of conscious horse-human connection and personal growth by working with the nuances of equine soundness, always considering the health of the horse’s nervous system in the process. To Steffi, soundness is not just a word to describe a healthy and balanced horse; it is a way of living and interacting. Steffi has three horses that live in a herd environment. She loves how the environment and training help them become more expressive and connected. She knows how easily the balance of physical soundness can be thrown off by ill-fitting equipment. Steffi has struggled to find the right saddle fit for herself and her horses, and the Schleese philosophy has stood out to her.

• Lady Saddlers Club – https://www.instagram.com/ladysaddlersclub/
  October 20, 2025 @ 6:00 pm EST
  Bio TBD

• Kate Ford – painted__dressage
  October 23, 2025 @ 2:00 pm EDT
  Kate is a young professional based in Brooksville, Florida, specializing in training ponies, small horses, and rescues in dressage. Most of her clients’ horses are paints and stock crosses, so she has run into her fair share of complications fitting horses that have very wide shoulders in comparison to the size of their bodies.

• Dayna – apha.desi
  October 27, 2025 @ 3:15 pm EST
  Bio TBD

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