Clinics

Choosing to continue your education throughout life is an important tool to attain your goals. Here at Blazing Star Stables natural horsemanship is practiced both by myself and students. Students are able to join in any clinics that are offered here, and those clinics that are offered elsewhere. I have chosen to take classes and continue education as a role model and inspiration to my students.

Check the calander of events for upcoming clinics!

Memorial Day Parade

Memorial Day 2008 Parade was blessed with wonderful weather, great Dobbin Addie mem beach 08

friends, and family. Moony, Cash, Arizona, D Moony Maddie walk parade 08

obbin, and Soliel were groomed up worked and then lead down the road to Cumston Hall where the parade would start....all made it through the Parade then to the beach, and finally on the way home we were all blessed with Murphy's Law when an F-16 fighter plane flew right over us in the middle of the parade! All in all we did well, no one was hurt but horses were definatly ready to go bac Arizona, amelia mt pisgah

k to the barn.

Amelia, Grammie, Grampa, and Mom went up Mt. Pisgah on Sunday morning. Arizona was super going over all the rocks, and putting up with t Arizona Chauntel Mem parade 08

he black flies... I thought at one point they might carry us away! Zona is worth her weight in gold

May 9th, 2008 blessed us with a super clear sunny day! Gina Torrell of PA travelled to the barn to present us with a day of Parelli Games... what an awesome time all had! The seven games were explained in detail, practiced with a lot of effort, and enjoyed by all. Gina will be coming back this fall to continue the Parelli Level 1 Certification and Parelli Level 2 Certification.

Parelli Clinic in West Springfield Mass.

April 11, 2008 Addie, Whit, Amelia, Kerstin, Kerstin's Mom, and Myself all braved the highways and toll booths to go see Linda and Pat Parelli. We all waited in line (we were in the first 15 at the General Admission Side) due to our devote planning and patience we snagged some super seats that were ringside! There were 3000 people there.

Pat and Linda along with many different students showed us all how to work and play with our horses on the ground! The style that Linda and Pat Pat and Casper

show is non abusive, gentle, and succsessful for all ages and ablilities.

Sunday brought Kerstin, Whit, and Chauntel to the barn for "games". All were successful in thier Driving, Porcupine, Friendly, and Circling games. The car wash, teeter totter, barrels, and jumps are up and ready!

Recently (3/15/08) Addie, Whit, and parents attended a clinic by Chris Lombard, a fellow natural horsemanship instructor.

In this clinic Addie worked with Dobbin, and I worked with Cash. Both Do Addie and Chris Talking it over bbin and Cash were troopers in the trailer, with the small storm we had that morning!

Addie Dobbin Deer in Headlights Addie and Chris decided to focus on confidence for herself, and working with Dobbin�s head pulls. Chris was patient, listening to Addie�s questions and concerns�he also herd Dobbins rather loud whinnies in his ears! By the end of their session Chris had successfully combined these two into a real team working with each others strengths and Dobbin had relaxed enough so that he wasn�t even talking! Kudos to all!

I asked Chris to work with Cash and I so that we can begin to attain our goal of bitless/bridless riding. I found it helpful to have another set of knowledgeable eyes and a wealth of different skills or drills to work on. Chris was able to give me the boost and desire to get going even more�now when will SPRING get here???