jan brons

"Training the Trainers" *

at chesapeake dressage institute
 
July 12-13
August 30-31 
Sept 19-22
October 24 -27

Click here for Jan Brons clinic registration form:

JanBronsClinicRegistration

Fees:  $150/ride

Auditing: $15 per day

Checks may be made payable to Chesapeake Dressage Institute.

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Please contact the CDI office on 410-267-7174 for further details or e-mail Marketing@ChesapeakeDressage.com. Office fax is 410-268-7022.

*Clinic is open to all riders/auditors with priority registration for instructors and trainers.

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International GranD Prix Competitor

VIctor Alvarez

to Lead Clinics at CDI in August

Postponed due to international competition schedule.

New Dates TBD

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CDI:  New Policy for Strangles Vaccination-

Due to the latest research, we will no longer be requiring horses to be immunized against Strangles.  Unvaccinated horses will be stabled separately, and will have use of the outdoor wash stall.  Please check your horse’s temperature before you arrive at our facility, and don’t come if your horse has a temperature, and/or runny nose.

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- Past Events -

Bombroofing Your Horse Clinic

The following article was displayed in the January 2008 PVDA Newsletter .

     On December 2, 2007, The Chesapeake Dressage Institute (CDI) was pleased to welcome and host a horse and handlers clinic Bombproofing Your Horse with guest Sergeant Rick Pelicano.  Traveling across the country teaching others the "comfort zone" method, Pelicano Equine Training, LLC.’s owner Sgt. Rick Pelicano, actively extends his expertise and skills to other horse enthusiasts.

     Instruction was provided initially with the horse under lead and then graduating to under saddle, all the while listening to a customized music cd of different sounds funneled through CDI’s indoor stereo system.  This cd provided such audio as traffic noises, children playing, dogs barking and show style noises to create the scenario and a bombproof acceptance to whatever noises could potentially arise while out horseback riding.

      Auditors and Guests at the event were able to watch this presentation from CDI’s heated stadium seating and while sipping hot cocoa from the indoor heated viewing-lounge connected to the oversized dressage in door-arena.  The participants in this clinic experienced a course that initially brought horse and rider anxiety and then concluded with all of the participants and guests laughing and oohhing and ahhing while horse and rider competed in an indoor soccer competition from horseback!  Fun and learning was had by all.

                                                                                -Courtesy of Nancy Lee, CDI

Angie Burnett and CDI horse Willy handle the bomproofing clinic from the ground up.

Pat Habicht riding Andrea stands ready for their next obstacle.

First Meeting of Local Trainers Concerning
Clinics and Seminars Specifically for the Professional

On November 11, 2007, a group of local riding professionals got together for dinner at the Chesapeake Dressage Institute to discuss organizing clinics, seminars ,etc. tailor-made for Training the Trainers. There is a lot of interest in forming a group to share contacts and suggestions, so a dinner was organized. We ended up with a lively discussion, and many
great ideas.

We've had several ideas mentioned for seminars, both mounted and unmounted, that should appeal to trainers, among them:

•   Discussing training theory debates


•   Holding continuing education classes


•   Hosting clinics with the best credentialed instructors to offer training for the
    riding professionals (without an audience, if desired)

•   Instructors and Trainers Club (or Organization, Group, etc.)


•   "Training the Trainers" Club"


•   "Riding Professionals" Club

Thank You,

Janet Richardson-Pearson, Founder and President
Chesapeake Dressage Institute

George Williams Clinic

The Chesapeake Dressage Institute was thrilled to welcome back George Williams for his third consecutive year at CDI.

Despite almost two decades of performances with the world-famous Tempel Lipizzans, and a list of high-profile committees and boards he served on in the dressage community to promote the sport in the US, until his name flashed onto the reader board at the CDI in Oldenburg, Germany, aboard the Westphalian mare Rocher in 2001, 'George Williams' was virtually unknown. However, after only two years of consistently top-ranked national and international Grand Prix placings, which included a campaign for a spot on the US Dressage Team for the World Equestrian Games, plus a record-setting performance in the Musical Freestyle at the 2002 Dressage at Devon, 'George Williams' has become one of the best-known names today in the sport of dressage worldwide.

Learn more about George via his web site at: www.gypsywoodfarm.com/george

The Potomac Valley Dressage Association kicked off its 2007 schooling show season on April 1st at CDI. CDI hosted over 25 rides on the cool early spring day. A special thanks to all volunteers and our judge Peggy Pariso.

Click here to learn more about PVDA.

George with Brendan Curtis and
  Shari Glickman's Baronessa
photo by Paula Bollinger

George William's Clinic at Chesapeake Dressage profiled in Dressage Today:

Instructor Spotlight: Techniques to Fit Each Horse

Jane Savoie Seminar

Jane Savoie's Fear Factor seminar draws attendees from Maryland, Virginia, Texas, and Colorado!

CDI's Farmhouse Conference Facility
February 25, 2007
photo by Paula Bollinger

The scoop on this program appeared in the April 2007 issue of the PVDA Newsletter:
Facing Your Fears with Jane Savoie

Robin Shelleman & George Williams
photo by Paula Bollinger

George William's Clinic at Chesapeake Dressage profiled in the January 2007 issue of the PVDA Newsletter: PVDA Select Are Energized by "The George Williams Experience"

Click here to read the front page article and complete story.

The Chesapeake Dressage Institute was recently featured in the Ultimate Horse Barns book by Randy Leffingwell. The volume is a photographic journey through America's most prestigious farms and CDI was thrilled to be included.

Leffingwell: " The love of horses often finds its expression in the horse barn--in the grandeur of the architecture, the extravagance of the detail, and the extent of the comforts that owners lavish on their favorite creatures. The masterpieces of equine architecture featured in this book attest to that devotion."

From Voyager Press, copyright Randy Leffingwell. ISBN 0760324417. Available at www.booksamillion.com.