Clinic Format
This clinic is made up of a 2 1/2 day- weekend format. It includes an interactive unmounted lecture with personalized rider balance assessment and adjustment on Friday evening. This part of the clinic is conducted with the use of a Balimo chair. The experience of the chair becomes extremely helpful for the 45-minute riding sessions each rider will have on Saturday and Sunday. Overall with both the Balimo chair experience and clinician directed riding sessions the rider will learn and practice the basics of biomechanics in terms of proper riding position. Clinician Stacy Patterson will share theories and new techniques developed from her years of experience. She will focus on how the riders’ body should communicate tactfully and balance with the horse.
About Our Clinician
Stacy Pattison is a lifelong horse woman originally a Pony Clubber Vaulter and Eventer. She learned many of her skills having worked with Phyllis Dawson and Karen (Lende) O’Conner during her early teenage years. Stacy is a USDF Bronze and Silver medalist with some Grand Prix experience under her belt. Having exclusively trained in dressage for the last 19 years she found her passion in teaching riders and training horses to work within their natural balance utilizing her intricate and very keen understanding of biomechanics. She strives to help horses give the riders what they want and riders to utilize their own body control and less force to create happy partnerships in addition to obtaining more expression from the horse.
Stacy ‘s education has been influenced by trainers such as Todd Bryan Jeremy Beale as well as clinicians such as Mary Wanless Jane Savoy Christoph Hess and many more. She is a very attentive active instructor always seeking to find the base route issue when working with anyone always searching to find what makes sense to each rider.
To learn more, visit Virginia Dressage Association, Charlottesville Chapter at vada-ch.org.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Old Raptor Farm, Louise Virginia, 1815 E. Green Spring Rd, Louisa, United States
