Brandi Lyons | Southern Equine Expo

Since I was young and on the road with my dad, John Lyons, I would dream about one day being able to help riders feel confident in their skills and help horses feel at peace with their owners. The two combined is so important to me. My family and I had always done this through clinics, traveling across the country doing 3-5 day riding clinics. From 1998-2013 I did this through taking horses in on monthly training and lessons. Since 2013 my kids were grown enough that I could go back on the road and help those through clinics.

With the help of a pandemic, I finally got the courage to try a new way of teaching. During 2020 I had to change my thought and wanted to help riders from the comforts of their own home. I did not know exactly how to do that, so I ran some trial classes. I knew I did not want to do the normal online school where there wasn’t a step by step guide to a goal. I wanted the classes to be goal oriented so the rider had individual attention for what they were personally wanting to achieve in their journey. And honestly I was so surprised by the results! I am so excited to now offer another way to work with me but from your own home and on your own time line.

Now I use my experiences online through virtual programs to help others start and grow their own successful relationships with their horses and some of you, a new career!! I still do offer clinics throughout the country and I do my immersion programs, where you spend a month with me working on specific goals.

Helping riders feel like they are worthy is a huge part of the rider/horse experience. Riders need to know that they are worthy of having expectations from their horse. The best part is that when the rider has good expectations then the horse feels cared for and safe with knowing what those expectations are. They do not have to guess and hope that they won’t get into trouble. Teaching riders what to expect, how to communicate those expectations, and to get those expectations is the focus on all her programs.

Brandi uses her experiences to help riders through clinics throughout the country, virtual programs that you can do from home, and month long intensive riding programs at her facility in Arizona.

Brandi has been published in Horse and Rider, Western Horseman, Perfect Horse, Horse Illustrated, The Trail Rider, blogs, and much more.

She competed in the 2022 Road to the Horse and is now proud to be apart of such a great organization as the Southern Equine Expo.