Resources and Influences

"If I have seen further, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants" -Sir Isaac Newton

🐴 Our Mission

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.

🐴 Influences

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.

Recommended Books

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