Northern Maine Riding Adventures
of Dover-Foxcroft, Maine

Owners:

Judith L. Cross-Strehlke
Robert "Bob" Flury-Strehlke

Most horse enthusiast have heard of Centered Riding® and Sally Swift. This method of teaching riding uses many techniques of body awareness to help riders develop more understanding of typical movement patterns and how they can help or interfere with the horses.

Centered Riding® has been developing over the years to teach these techniques to riding instructors and students in order to unlock the potential in their horses way of going. There are now several levels of certification available to instructors who are trained in Centered Riding®. Maine is fortunate to have top level instruction available, not only for students who wish to improve their own riding, but also to instructors who wish to learn these techniques to add to their own particular teaching methods.

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 saddleseat, for dressage and combined raining, for hunters, and for the disabled.

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 15 years and is currently certified as a level IV instructor and clinician.



Judy Cross-Strehlke of Dover-Foxcroft, Maine has been studying with Sally Swift since 1980. Judy is currently a Level IV Centered Riding® instructor. Currently there are only seventeen Level IV Senior/Advanced instructors of this discipline in the U.S. In addition to teaching Centered Riding since 1980, Judy completed 30 days of assisting Advanced Instructors as well as undertaking an additional study of body awareness, such as Tai Chi, Alexander Method of Body Control, Movement therapy.

Judy Cross has a B.S. degree in equine animal sciences and has owned and operated Fox Run Riding School and Northern Maine Riding Adventures since 1979. After being certified as a instructor for riding for the disabled in 1984, Ms. Cross started Therapeutic Horsemanship, Inc. where she teaches "Centered Riding" to those that are both physically and emotionally challenged.

At Northern Maine Riding Adventure in Dover-Foxcroft, Judy uses Centered Riding® to teach her students who compete in Dressage and Combined Training as well as work with adolescents with emotional and behavioral disorders. Judy is the Coach of the University of Maine's Equestrian Team, which competes in Hunt Seat in The Inter collegiate Horse Show Association.

Judy also teaches instructors of special needs populations. The use of hands on body work and ground exercises develop an understanding between the instructor and student in a non-threatening environment. Unlocking a body helps unlock emotions which very often are the cause of problems in riding as well as daily life.

In addition to "Centered Riding®" Judy Incorporates TT.E.A.M. Training Techniques into her clinics so that the horses are also more relaxed and balanced. She is trained in massage therapy and can do demonstrations.

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