Welcome all ages, abilities, and capabilities. Complete beginners, novice and intermediate riders, advanced riders, fearful riders, as well as children, special needs, and disabled welcome. Therapeutic program is available through our sister non-profit program.
Develop knowledgeable riders, happy horses, and providing instruction on all aspects of horse care, handling, riding, and training.
Provide innovative lessons to create Awareness of self, position, movement, feel, and also awareness with the horse.
Establish true Balance, a solid foundation, and a classically correct seat
(Natural and Balanced-seat riding, Classical Dressage).
Learn Natural horsemanship--the language of equis-- both on the ground and under saddle to develop partnership, respect, trust, and Communication between horse and rider.
Demand safety. Michelle is a Nationally certified instructor with ARIA, trained with NARHA and Centered Riding, has an outstanding safety record, and was an US Army-trained medic.
Training, retraining, and problem solving. Specializing in resettling off the track race horses into riding partners and working with agressive behavioral and fear issues.
Development and Conditioning the equine body and mind for fitness, the work ahead, to maintain soundness, and enhance performance.
Trailer in for Lessons and or Training sessions for distance riding at Del Valle Regional Park on your horse. Boarding possible next to the park with Michelle's endurance horse.
This is a riding school and program that is designed to develop Awareness, true Balance, and Communication (the ABC's of Riding) to achieve harmony and lightness, enhance performance and safety, for pleasure or competition. Learn how to become the horse's partner, learn the language of the horse and how to "whisper", heighten the experience and joy of horseback riding, and maybe earn the heart of the horse. Enhance your knowledge of horsemanship and learn training techniques. Allow the gentle equine to help quiet your mind and find some peace for the soul... discover how holistic working in harmony with the majestic and sensitive equine can be for your spirit, mind, and body.
Goals
The program seeks to:
Lessons
Students being accepted for:
Lunge and line lessons for seat and aid development
In Depth riding Lessons complete with practical theory, application, always horse centric
Horsemanship skills using Natural Horsemanship, learning training techniques
Body (bio) mechanics for the rider through ground body work and movement awareness
Dressage, English, low hunters/jumpers, pleasure/trail, distance riding/endurance, Western/stock seat, and preparation to own or lease your first horse or get back into horses correctly.
Classes and clinics on equine movement and developing the equine athlete
Classes and clinics on Equine Body Awareness® and body work
Reliable, responsive, aware, well-trained, barefoot lesson horses and pony available, all in bit-less bridles (bitted for advanced riders only).
Training
Horses being accepted for:
Trims
The instructor and trainer is also a hoof care practitioner/trimmer and supporter of the Barefoot Movement.
Therapy
ABC's Riding fully believes in the power of horses to help humans mentally and physically. That is why we support and run the Circle E Theurepeutic Riding Academy for the mentally and physically disabled.
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