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2025 Dressage Symposium Speakers

Sam Maclean

Red Dog Ranch

Over the arc of Sam’s career, she has worked as: a fitness professional, public speaker, university lecturer on the mind-body-spirit connection, nonprofit fundraiser, and integrated marketing communications specialist. It took a mid-life trifecta of divorce, unemployment and a fall at the top of a mountain for Sam to finally re-orient her life toward her passion: horses.

Sam’s mission is to be of service to horses and their guardians by creating heart-centered connections that support their return to harmony. Through her business, Red Dog Ranch Equine LLC, she provides whole horse bodywork focusing on animal acupressure, myofascial release, massage (tui na, shiatsu, trigger point), and reiki (animal and human). Sam is an associate instructor at Elemental Acupressure, where she shares her love of East-Asian Medicine with guardians and professionals wanting to help animals.

As a certified HeartMath® mentor and coach, Sam helps people improve their sense of well-being by learning how to activate heart-brain coherence.

Finally, as an end-of-life doula for animals, she provides compassionate comfort-care to horses and dogs, their guardians and herd-mates during the death or euthanasia process, offering harmony in both life and in death.

You can find Sam on Facebook and Instagram: @rdrequine Sam has many free videos on YouTube: @reddogranch8705 You can learn more about Sam’s work by visiting her website where she has blog-posts and links to several podcast interviews: www.rdrequine.com For more information, please email: sam@rdrequine.com

Linda Sorensen

Sorensen Equestrian Park

Linda Sorensen is a USEF/WDDA Western Dressage “R” judge and a USDF “L”. Her studies in physical therapy and psychology give her unusual success in the diagnosis and correction of problems that frustrate riders and can block their progress for years. She is an excellent teacher who can adapt her teaching to the learning style of each student. Her unique skills and abilities have enabled her to help both professional and amateur riders to increased success.
Linda loves people and believes strongly in the value of each individual. She is as delighted to help beginning riders as she is to help F.E.I. level professionals. She is patient, communicates well, and does not give up when riders struggle to learn. She cares deeply for each of her students and truly desires to help each student attain their dreams and experience joy and success in the process.
Linda has earned international acclaim for her teaching and training abilities. She has trained many award winning national and international riders as well as helping riders to become professionals.
Her equestrian education includes studying with such greats as Olympic competitor and coach from Sweden, Major Anders Lindgren, and Olympic judge Col. Auge Sommer from Denmark. She studied with the legendary and exceptional teachers Violet Hopkins and Sally Swift, as well as Olympic coaches, trainers, and riders.

Dr. Allie Baier, PT, DPT, CMT

EquiPT

Allie Baier is a Doctor of Physical Therapy who treats equestrians of all ages and abilities.  Physical therapists are best described as movement specialists; trained to watch all types of movement, identify asymmetries or poor movement strategies, and coach individuals to move properly again. She believes that the therapy experience, much like that of a horse and rider pair, should be a partnership between the therapist and patient to reach the patient's goals.

Allie Baier combines two passions into one experience for equestrians looking to gain a new perspective on their own athleticism. Long before becoming a Physical Therapist, Allie was developing partnerships with horses as a rider herself. She has worked as a horseback riding instructor, clinician, and United States Pony Club Examiner. 

Her EquiPT sessions blend unmounted assessment and hands-on care to the rider prior to further watching the movement of the rider and horse together. With photo and video riding analysis she further supports the partnership- aiding the rider to better move and experience the horse, just as much as she helps the rider provide fine-tuned and more clear aides for the horse. Her growing awareness of the somatic experience of our nervous system also brings a new perspective to why our bodies move freely with ease or hold long term pain or trauma that blocks enjoyable riding experiences. 

To Allie, education and clear communication are the foundation of both riding instruction and physical therapy. Her calm, positive, and open-minded approach helps horses and riders who struggle with fear, frustration, and lack of body-awareness. Allie is here to help you every step and stride of the way!

Bethany Tuskey

Tuskey Dressage

Bethany is Tuskey Dressage’s head trainer. Bethany’s love of horses began at an early age, and she has dedicated her life to learning the art of horsemanship from master horse trainers. She has studied classical dressage, liberty work, work in hand, and long reining. She has been influenced by trainers such as Jillian Kreinbring, Patrick King, Dominique Barbier, Frederic Pignon, Magali Delgado, and Laura Amandis. Bethany has taken what she has learned from other trainers as well the horses and combined in with her spiritual beliefs to create a unique style of training based on love for the horse, the desire to help her horses to become better versions of themselves, and the desire to build partnerships with her horses based on mutual trust and understanding.

In addition to dressage work, Bethany can take her partnership with her horses to a whole new level by working with them at liberty, where there is nothing connecting her to the horse and the horse has the freedom to do as he wants. Working with horses at liberty creates a relationship with your horse that will transcend anything you have experienced before.
Bethany enjoys performing with her Andalusian at various shows and exhibitions. It is her goal to share her unique training style and show people how they too can take their relationship with their horse to a whole new level.