CLINICS
Great Heights Stable provides clinics on the weekdays or weekends for all ages, backgrounds, and levels of riding. You can bring your own horse or work with ours.
These clinics will focus on specific skills for either the trainer or the horse to develop to enhance the partnership for any discipline. Clinics can range from helping the very beginner develop knowledge and confidence, to the advanced rider looking to resolve a specific problem or work on refining a skill.
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Clinics can run from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm during spring, summer,
and autumn.
Winter is from 10:00-2:30 weather permitting.
Light snacks and refreshments will be provided for groups of
5 or more.
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SAMPLE AGENDA:
Clinics start with an all group meeting to go over key concepts, goals, and provide opportunities for introductions. Coffee/tea will be provided.
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Morning work will be a combination of whole group and individualized focus work.
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Break for lunch and de-briefing
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Afternoon session will focus on refinement, independence and application or extension of skills.
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Participation:
Work with your own horse $100
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Work with one of our horses $150
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Audit $10
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SAMPLE CLINIC TOPICS:
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-Introduction to A New Natural Horsemanship: Learn how to use basic natural horsemanship techniques that enable you to work with the horse with ease, confidence, and respect. This clinic will focus on creating lightness in the response to your aids, helping you do less and the horse do more as a result of influencing where their mind is. Learn how to move the horse on the ground, establishing a clear communication that translates to the saddle and helps any level of rider reduce their effort in getting responses from their horse.
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-Liberty Work Introduction: for those that are seeking to enhance their relationship with their horses and create a deeper partnership, this clinic focuses on techniques, methods, and equestrian mindset that enables horse and rider to perform at liberty. This clinic will cover the basic concepts central to this goal, and then start building towards basic liberty work.
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-Trick Training Introduction: a fun clinic that covers the methods behind teaching a horse tricks. You're imagination drives this clinic and we will focus on how to break a skill down into steps that a horse can understand, master, and achieve a level of independence that then enables you to do any trick you can think of. We can look at the foundations for the lay-down, the Spanish Walk, grabbing a drink from a cooler, etc.
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-Dressage I: this clinic focuses on bio-metrics and the influence our aids has on our horses performance. We will explore how to change our aids, balance, and mindset to influence our horses correctly, taking their personality, and manner of going into account to best achieve our goals. This clinic is for both English and Western disciplines, as it focuses on those fundamental elements that bridge both disciplines. Riders will learn how bend and target exercises free up the body and mind of the horse, enabling those higher end movements to become simple.
-Problem Solving I: this unique clinic is client driven and a blast to audit! We will look at common ways to solve problems, exploring how to make the wrong thing hard and the right thing easy for both the horse and rider.
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-Trailering 101: let's face it- traveling with our horses is an expected part of our relationship, but is also one of the hardest things to master. We've all heard horror stories, or experienced difficult situations ourselves. It is not a good feeling and can limit what we do with our horses. Don't get stuck! We can fix this! This clinic explores what goes wrong for the horse and rider in regards to trailering and then works on ways we can start fixing it. Using our horses or yours, learn how to approach all sorts of trailering issues that crop up with our equine friends, and how we can help.
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-Introduction to Owning a Horse Naturally: Natural horsemanship is starting to become more widely popularized, understood, and accepted. As equestrians, it is our responsibility to provide the best care we can for our equine friends. But what does that mean or look like? Geared for new riders or horse owners, this clinic will look at all basic aspects of horse ownership- covering health, daily care, conditioning, and cost options for our area. Hands on work will help riders understand how things like equine teeth connect with ridability, how hoof balance leads to better rides, and how simple pasture management can be.
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