Hello and welcome to my web site. I have been teaching dressage and a balanced seat to beginners through Second level students for about 9 years now. When I discovered dressage early in my riding about 16 years ago I fell in love with the beauty and elegance of the sport in an art form. I love animals, the outdoors, playing sports, and dancing. Dressage has all of those things in one package. Then after seeing freestyles (kurs) for the first time, I knew dressage was my calling. To see a horse and rider dance together to music is very compelling and touched me deeply. Even without the music, I strive to ride a horse with the same harmony as dancing and pass that skill along to my students.



I am fully insured and ARIA Dressage Level II certified. I am currently teaching and training in the Pan Handle of West Virginia including Berkeley, Jefferson and Morgan counties. I am also available in Washington county Maryland since I board in that area. Northern Virginia and counties neighboring the Hagerstown, MD area are convenient for me as well. See my contact section for my email to inquire about my rates and any questions that you may have.

Dressage Level II Certified by the American Riding Instructors Association

Equestrian art, however, is something else which involves complete harmony between horse and rider, and that makes the rider feel that there have been moments of beauty and greatness which make a flight possible from all that is ordinary and mediocre.
----Nuño Oliveira

This is my lovely Thoroughbred, D'Artagnan. I got him as a 6 year old off the race track. He is 15 now and I have trained and shown him through Second Level. Including a First Level Freestyle as well. We are currently schooling Second and Third level. He has taught me more than any human has or any other horse I have ridden. The horse can truly be the best instructor when you learn to listen to them.