FAQs
- What should the customer know about your pricing (e.g., discounts, fees)?
Riding and Horsemanship Lessons - 45.00 per hour at Wishing Welz Ranch. Trailer-in your horse, or sweet, gentle, well-trained lesson horses are available. Mobile Riding and Horsemanship Lessons - 55.00 per hour at your location with your own horse, in the local Queen Creek or San Tan Valley, Arizona area. (Other locations possible with extra travel fee.)
- What is your typical process for working with a new customer?
Lessons are created individually, according the to the student's experience and interests.
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
Yvonne Welz is a professional horsewoman with over 30 years of equine management and training experience. Formerly a competitive dressage rider, she schooled many horses up to an advanced level and achieved national awards with them. Always focused on learning, she has studied the art of classical horsemanship for over 25 years, including the French classical methods. She has trained many horses from scratch, acquiring them as yearlings or untrained, starting them out under saddle and schooling them to higher levels. She has enjoyed giving riding lessons to children and adults since the 1990's. In the 2000's, she studied several different methods of natural horsemanship, and also trained in equine nutrition, saddle fitting, and barefoot hoof trimming. She was instrumental in helping to introduce the methods of natural barefoot horse care to the USA in 2000. In 2013, she embraced collected high school riding without the use of bits or spurs, and has not looked back. Enjoy her holistic approach and absolute love for the horse!