Northern Maine Riding Adventures
is a four season Christian Equestrian Facility that offers programs in Therapeutic Riding to adolescents with learning disabilities, emotional and behavioral challenges, substance abuse issues, and mental health diagnoses. In addition, we work with youth with cognitive and neurological challenges with a special interest in those on the Autism Spectrum.

We are also an equine business that offers riding lessons to the general public, offers wilderness trail rides to tourists into the Maine managed forest lands, coach the Inter collegiate Equestrian Team at the University of Maine at Orono and teach the riding program for the University of Maine Certificate in Equine Studies.

To Book A Centered Riding® Clinic:


Judy is available to teach Centered Riding® clinics at your stable or riding club. Please call for rates... A special rate is available to instructors of physically challenged riders. Feel free to call Judy if you have any questions...

Judy's Mobil: 207 564-3451


Northern Maine Riding Adventures

Judith L. Cross-Strehlke
Level IV Centered Riding® Clinician
2014 Centered Riding® Clinic Schedule


Arnhem, Netherlands

Clinic Dates:    May 15, 16, 17, 18, 2014

Clinic Type:     Open/Update Centered Riding® Clinic

Instructor:        Judith Cross-Strehlke - Level IV Centered Riding® Clinician

Clinic Location:

Stable:         :: de Paardenmaat     (Keijo and Tina - Owners)
Translated:   :: Horse Home
Address:       :: Rijkerswoerdse straat 21
Address:       :: 6836 AG Arnhem, The Netherlands

Contact:

Name:          Piet Nibbelink
Address:       Rijkerswoerdse straat 21
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Address:       6836 AG Arnhem, The Netherlands
Phone:         
Mobil:           +(31) 6 22993418
Email            depaardenmaat@hetnet.nl
Website        www.depaardenmaat.com/


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Koskenkorva, Finland

Clinic Dates:    May 29 to May 31, 2014

Clinic Type:     Open/Update Centered Riding® Clinic

Instructor:        Judith Cross-Strehlke - Level IV Centered Riding® Clinician

Clinic Location:

Stable:         :: Toiskan Talli     (Keijo and Tina - Owners)
Translated:   :: Toiskan Stable
Address:       :: 10 Palonkuja
Address:       :: Koskenkorva, Finland 61330

Contact:

Name:          Teea Ekola
Address:       
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Mobil:           Mobile: 0505875857
Email            teea.ekola@ilonkopse.fi


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Voiluoto, Finland

Clinic Dates:    June 7 to June 8, 2014

Clinic Type:     Open Centered Riding® Clinic

Instructor:        Judith Cross-Strehlke - Level IV Centered Riding® Clinician

Clinic Location:

Stable:         :: Voiluodon Terapiahevoset    
Translated:   :: Voiluodon Therapy Horses
Address:       :: 130 Hanhistentie
Address:       :: Voiluoto, Finland 26590

Contact:

Name:          Jenni Salomaa-Ravi
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Mobil:           Mobile: 0405192251
Email            talli@terapiahevoset.fi


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Tuuri, Finland

Clinic Dates:    June 11 to June 12, 2014

Clinic Type:     Mini Clinic/Privates + Little Theory around Lunchtime

Instructor:        Judith Cross-Strehlke - Level IV Centered Riding® Clinician

Clinic Location:

Stable:         :: Tuurin Hevospuisto Oy:n maneesi    
Translated:   :: Tuuri Horse Park Ltd manage
Address:       :: 71 Holkonkylantie
Address:       :: Tuurin, Finland 63610

Contact:

Name:          Hannamarie Aho
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Address:       Tuurin, Finland
Phone:         
Mobil:           Mobile: 0405108746
Email            teea.ekola@ilonkopse.fi


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Rautalampi, Finland

Clinic Dates:    June 16 to June 19, 2014

Clinic Type:     Update Centered Riding® Clinic

Instructor:        Judith Cross-Strehlke - Level IV Centered Riding® Clinician

Clinic Location:

Stable:         :: Rautalammin Ratsupalvelut Oy    
Translated:   :: Rautalampi Knight Services Ltd
Address:       :: 25 Palolahdentie
Address:       :: Rautalampi, Finland 77700

Contact:

Name:          Eerika Hakkinen
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Mobil:           Mobile: 0400507179
Email            info@rautalamminratsastuskeskus.fi


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Koskenkorva, Finland

Clinic Dates:    June 28 to July 3, 2014

Clinic Type:     Introduction to the Journey

Instructor:        Judith Cross-Strehlke - Level IV Centered Riding® Clinician

Clinic Location:

Stable:         :: Toiskan Talli     (Keijo and Tina - Owners)
Translated:   :: Toiskan Stable
Address:       :: 10 Palonkuja
Address:       :: Koskenkorva, Finland 61330

Contact:

Name:          Teea Ekola
Address:       
Address:       
Address:       
Phone:         
Mobil:           Mobile: 0505875857
Email            teea.ekola@ilonkopse.fi


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Registered Maine Guides and Outfitters Since 1979
 

Northern Maine Riding Adventures is Owned and Operated By:

Judy Louise Cross Strehlke Robert "Bob" Flury-Strehlke


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Judys' Interactive Book

Various international photos of Judy teaching.  To view photos:    click here

Biography of Judy

Judy Cross has been teaching riding for over thirty years. Her early training was in Western and trail riding. She was introduced to Dressage and Combined Training thru Pony Club in Maine as a teenager. During college in Equine Science, she started competing in Combined Training Events. As a young professional rider and instructor, she was coached by members of the US Olympic Three Day Team. She continued to compete herself and coach young riders for over 25 years.

In 1979 after riding and teaching professionally, Judy returned to Maine for surgery to correct congenital bone defects in her feet. As she was returning to riding, she had the opportunity to take a clinic with well known author and instructor Sally Swift. This was a life changing experience for Judy and she began to pursue the Centered Riding path by studying extensively with Sally. She became an Advanced level IV instructor in 1999, one of only 17 in the US and Europe. Judy's own struggle with chronic back pain and incorrect habitual posture gives her a unique perspective in helping others over come physical challenges that prevent them from achieving their riding goals.

This path led her to Therapeutic Riding. In 1980 she started one of the first Therapeutic Riding Programs in Maine after attending the Cheff Center. She became a NARHA member in 1984 and is currently the co-chair for the State of Maine. She is an EFMHA member and offers Adventure Based Learning programs out of her facility in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine. She and her husband Bob Strehlke run an active boarding stable, offer wilderness trail rides, and teach children with learning disabilities and mental health challenges. Judy's special interest is on children on the autism spectrum.

The personal growth workshops for women at Northern Maine Riding Adventures incorporates a synergistic new form that blends riding with reflective round pen work assisted by a therapist. This unique combination releases the power of the Mind/Body connection to access emotional and physical issues using much of the Epona methods. She incorporates Brain Gym and Centered Riding body work in all her lessons.

Judy's studies on the bio mechanics of riding and habitual holding patterns in the body include Ti Chi, Alexander Techniques, Neuro pathway work through Feldenkris and TEAM, Centered Riding and Brain Gym. She is an advanced NARHA instructor and an Advanced Level IV Centered Riding Clinician. She currently teaches Centered Riding to instructors throughout the US and Europe and Integrated Riding Techniques the physio- therapists all over Europe and The US.

Centered Riding®

Centered Riding® is a method of riding that can improve the balance and Relaxation of every rider regardless of what discipline they ride. This method has been taught to western, to saddle seat, for dressage and combined training, for hunters, and for the disabled and for jumping.

Judith Cross-Strehlke has been teaching and following the discipline of "Centered Riding® Since 1980 when Sally Swift first started teaching in Maine. Judy has had the good fortune to have been trained by Sally Swift extensively over the last 20 years and is currently certified as a Level IV Instructor and clinician.

For more information about Centered Riding®, click here .

Integrated Riding™

Integrated Riding™ is a unique blend of Movement Based Learning activities used to increase the neruo sensory reactions in the Brain to facilitate whatever learning activity is taking place. This innovative use of Brain Gym, Centered Riding, and Balimo activities, based on the work of Eckhart Meyners, includes exercises on the ground and on the horse. This combination enhances whole brain activity to combine kinetic learning, necessary for improved riding skills, with cognitive learning, necessary for technical skills.

Habitual posturing and movement creates one set of overdeveloped nerve pathways. This interferes with the body's ability to learn a new movement because of the impact habituation has on the brain's ability to send information to the muscles through the different nerve pathways.

By using a combination of specific types of exercises in a riding lesson, the emotional centers in the brain are blended with the body to access the whole Brain This allows a blend of improved physical and cognitive learning. Emotional stress whether through trauma or abuse, creates a blockage in the body's ability to balance physically. Hands on contact, combined with relaxation techniques, helps the body release these holding patterns which in turn opens up the body's ability to learn.

Actively moving the body in a new way retrains the nervous system to improve balance and movement.Certain exercises and types of touch help to stimulate areas of the brain responsible for our survival responses and our emotional reactions to situations. When we move a certain way, we enhance our ability to balance what our body feels with what our senses tell us. When we blend riding and handling horses with certain exercises, we provide physical stimulation that increases Neruo pathway development.

These easy to do exercises enhance the ability to learn to process information and respond to the world around us in a positive and effective way.A 6 point program taken from the Balimo System helps to develop the neural connections in the brain which are essential for riding. The exercises are appropriate for all ages and levels of learning.Targeting 6 specific areas of the body through certain exercises help reduce stress and retrain the brain for greater integration of balance and movement. Riders of all abilities are able to reduce stiffness, develop greater balance, and increase tone and flexibility.

For more information about Integrated Riding™, click here .

Journey into the horse's world

The Journey is a unique co-operation between three international instructors, each experts in their own fields.

It is a three year training program, which covers the essential elements that come together with working with horses.

Piet Nibbelink will guide you through the first part of the program, where you will learn about communication between horse and human.

Judy Cross-Strehlke (USA) is a level IV Centered Riding instructor and will guide you through part two, which is about body awareness and effective movement in riding.

The third and last part will be guided by Sarah Jane Clarke, a classical dressage specialist trained by the riding school in Jerez. She will teach you about training horses.

For more information about the journey, click here .