"If I have seen further, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants" -Sir Isaac Newton
At Calling Bird Farm we embrace horse enthusiasts and help them develop into confident horse riders able to ride, train, and care for a horse in 2 years using progressive mounted and unmounted skill levels, longe lessons, dressage focus, and Straightness Training.
Attunement is becoming one to achieve greater things than we can do separately. Horses don’t want to bodybuild and show off all the time or don’t have the confidence. We can give them that confidence! And they give us swiftness made flesh. They give us the ability to fly on land. We are ALL ONE. Horses are a vehicle to that truth.
JoAnne Bonnell Classical Dressage - local dressage trainer, the seat is the alpha and omega of riding
Marijke de Jonge's Straightness Training - progressive system to develop a horse body, mind, and spirit. The horse is the path to our own self mastery.
Warwick Schiller - attunement and connection and WOO
Horse Sense Learning Levels - education program curriculum including mounted and unmounted skills for holistic horsemanship.
The Complete Training of Horse and Rider by Alois Podhajsky
Fundamentals of Riding: Theory and Practice by Charles Harris
Workbooks from the Spanish School by Charles Harris
Dressage Sabbatical by Rose Caslar
The Essential Paul Belasik by Paul Belasik
The Rider's Balance by Sylvia Loch
Dressage in Lightness by Sylvia Loch
Dressage by Henry Wynmalen
Animal Training 101 by Jenifer Zeligs
Sacred Spaces by Dr. Susan Fay
“The outside of a horse is good for the inside of a man”
-Churchill