Erin Schroeder
Erin Schroeder is a professional horsewoman with over 25 years of experience in the horse industry. Erin grew up in the southern part of Virginia riding Hunter Jumper horses. As her passion for horses grew, she decided to make horses her lifelong career. After her high school graduation, Erin moved to Tucson Arizona and completed the Al-Marah Arabians U.S. Department of Labor-Approved Apprentice Program where she became certified in horse training, instruction, management, and breeding. Since then, Erin has worked in many facets of the horse industry including showing both Arabians and Quarter horses in a variety of disciplines, teaching, judging and running her 20 acre horse boarding and training facility in Casper, Wyoming.
Teaching has always been a big part of Erin's training philosophy and program and continues to be her main focus today. Erin’s passion is to teach people how to build a strong relationship with their horse based on trust. In addition, Erin’s main objective is to bring a new awareness to the competitive performance horse industry— that you can train a successful show horse by using the principles of liberty and natural horsemanship without intimidation practices.
Erin accomplishes her goal through her Liberty for the Everyday Rider and Tools for the Anxious Rider programs and training practices. In these programs Erin teaches that liberty is more than teaching your horse tricks and letting then run around loose! Liberty can and does improve your relationship with your horse by learning to read your horse’s body language and teaching them to look to you as their leader. As a result, liberty improves your horse under saddle by making them softer, more willing and creates a relaxed partner.
As someone who knows firsthand what it is like to struggle with anxiety disorder and how it affects your riding, Erin has created Tools for the Anxious Rider. Tools for the Anxious Rider offers the skills and techniques that she has adapted into her own personal training program to ease the anxious mind and help the rider feel safe and in control. This program isn’t just for riders who struggle with anxiety disorder. Tools for the Anxious Rider help with common fears and regular anxiousness seen with horse and rider.
Teaching has always been a big part of Erin's training philosophy and program and continues to be her main focus today. Erin’s passion is to teach people how to build a strong relationship with their horse based on trust. In addition, Erin’s main objective is to bring a new awareness to the competitive performance horse industry— that you can train a successful show horse by using the principles of liberty and natural horsemanship without intimidation practices.
Erin accomplishes her goal through her Liberty for the Everyday Rider and Tools for the Anxious Rider programs and training practices. In these programs Erin teaches that liberty is more than teaching your horse tricks and letting then run around loose! Liberty can and does improve your relationship with your horse by learning to read your horse’s body language and teaching them to look to you as their leader. As a result, liberty improves your horse under saddle by making them softer, more willing and creates a relaxed partner.
As someone who knows firsthand what it is like to struggle with anxiety disorder and how it affects your riding, Erin has created Tools for the Anxious Rider. Tools for the Anxious Rider offers the skills and techniques that she has adapted into her own personal training program to ease the anxious mind and help the rider feel safe and in control. This program isn’t just for riders who struggle with anxiety disorder. Tools for the Anxious Rider help with common fears and regular anxiousness seen with horse and rider.
Shelley (Chaille) Groom Trevor
Shelley (Chaille) Groom Trevor was born in Chicago and raised in Charleston, South Carolina. She attended Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, the University of Colorado, and Arizona State University. From 1969 to 1984 Shelley was involved with Brusally Ranch, a prominent breeding ranch in Scottsdale, Arizona, founded by her grandfather, Ed Tweed. Here she worked up the ranks from groom to professional trainer and manager. These years offered intensive experience in breeding, the handling of stallions, the care and raising of youngsters, training and showing.
Accomplishments include U.S. National Top Tens in Formal Driving, Formal Combination, Stock Horse, English and Western Pleasure, and Sidesaddle, as well as National Top Five in Novice Cutting and U. S. National Championships in Sidesaddle and Third Level Dressage. She has also trained and shown horses in Working Cow Horse, jumping and eventing.
After the death of Ed Tweed and the sale of the 160 acre facility, Shelley began her own small training facility where she continues to train and teach and carry on her grandfather’s Polish bloodlines. She particularly enjoys bringing problem horses and their riders together in a harmonious relationship through classical principles.
Shelley’s writing background includes articles written and illustrated for The Arabian Horse Journal, The Arabian World, The Arabian Express, Horse Digest, Western Horseman, and The Arizona Horse Connection.
Non-horse related but relative to her writing is the Afterword written for the publication of Quiller Balalaika by her late husband, British author Elleston Trevor, and Bury Him Among Kings, a biography of Trevor to accompany his novels, which are available on Kindle.
Since 1975, Shelley (using her birth name Chaille) has been a professional illustrator and oil painter. Her work has appeared in various galleries such as Troy’s Western Gallery and Long Gallery in Scottsdale. Her paintings are currently presented at Wilde Meyer Galleries in Scottsdale and Tucson, Arizona.
Training, writing, and painting, all serve one love – horses. Art, pursuit of excellence in motion, word, and line are Shelley’s way of bringing horses and people together into a certain unity, a sensitive combination of feeling, knowledge, and joy.
Accomplishments include U.S. National Top Tens in Formal Driving, Formal Combination, Stock Horse, English and Western Pleasure, and Sidesaddle, as well as National Top Five in Novice Cutting and U. S. National Championships in Sidesaddle and Third Level Dressage. She has also trained and shown horses in Working Cow Horse, jumping and eventing.
After the death of Ed Tweed and the sale of the 160 acre facility, Shelley began her own small training facility where she continues to train and teach and carry on her grandfather’s Polish bloodlines. She particularly enjoys bringing problem horses and their riders together in a harmonious relationship through classical principles.
Shelley’s writing background includes articles written and illustrated for The Arabian Horse Journal, The Arabian World, The Arabian Express, Horse Digest, Western Horseman, and The Arizona Horse Connection.
Non-horse related but relative to her writing is the Afterword written for the publication of Quiller Balalaika by her late husband, British author Elleston Trevor, and Bury Him Among Kings, a biography of Trevor to accompany his novels, which are available on Kindle.
Since 1975, Shelley (using her birth name Chaille) has been a professional illustrator and oil painter. Her work has appeared in various galleries such as Troy’s Western Gallery and Long Gallery in Scottsdale. Her paintings are currently presented at Wilde Meyer Galleries in Scottsdale and Tucson, Arizona.
Training, writing, and painting, all serve one love – horses. Art, pursuit of excellence in motion, word, and line are Shelley’s way of bringing horses and people together into a certain unity, a sensitive combination of feeling, knowledge, and joy.
