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What is Centered Riding®?

A way to learn "how to", do something when your instructor tells you "what to do" using visual images and movement techniques including Alexander Work, Tia Chi, and breathing exercises.

Who can use Centered Riding®?

Centered Riding® Techniques impact all disciplines in riding; Western, Trail Riding, Dressage, Jumping and Therapeutic Riding. It will improve your horse's calmness, balance and movement by increasing your body awareness and dynamic balance.

       Improve Your Sitting Trot !
       Improve Your Balance and Connection !
       Overcome Nervousness and Fear !
       Ride Without Pain !

Clinic Format:

Two hours of unmounted body work and one hour of group lessons each day.
Private Lessons are abailable.

Total Cost:

       $ 220.00 for 2 days. $ 125.00 for one day.

Fee includes lunch, horse use, or stablinf for your own horse. Total cost: $ 220.00 for 2 days.
For more information contact: Judy Cross 207 564-3451 or 207 717-7845.

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Judy has been teaching Centered Riding® for over 20 years and has trained extensively with Sally Swift since 1980. She is one of only 14 Advanced Level Centered Riding Clinicians in the US. She travels all over the US and Europe teaching riders of many disciplines and levels. She rides Dressage and Western and specializes in Rider Imbalance, Therapeutic Riding and in training young horses. Judy is an Advanced Instructor for the North American Riding for the Handicapped. She and her husband Bob run their own four Seasons Equestrian Center in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine. Most horse enthusiasts 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 movement.

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.

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 Intercollegiate 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. We are sending you this information because Judy Cross is currently available to travel to your stable and introduce these techniques to your students and instructors. Judy has 20 years experience in teaching Centered Riding® Clinics in New England and on the East Coast.

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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. Judy Cross-Strehlke has a B.S. degree in equine animal sciences and has owned and operated Northern Maine Riding Adventures since 1980. After being certified as an instructor for riding for the disabled in 1982, Mrs. Cross-Strehlke started Therapeutic Horsemanship, Inc. where she teaches Centered Riding® to those that are both physically and emotionally challenged. She specialized in outdoor adventure based learning for adolescents with behavioral challenges. Judy and her husband bob, both Registered Maine Guides, lead trail rides into the Northern Maine Wilderness areas.

Judy and her students continue to compete successfully in the disciplines of dressage, eventing, jumping, western pleasure, and equitation. She currently rides at second level dressage and training level on her own horses.

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.

For more information on how you
can set up a Centered Riding®
Clinic with Judy at your facility,
please contact:

Northern Maine Riding Adventures
186 Garland Line Road
Dover-Foxcroft, Maine 04426

Tel:      (207) 564-3451
Cell:     (207) 717-7845

ride@mainetrailrides.com

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