Member SPOTLIGHT

MODA and Jane Savoie.

Teaching the Scale

Submitted and Written by Member: Tim Skinner on November 15, 2008

Mid Ohio Dressage Association (MODA) and Jane Savoie joined forces over the weekend of October 18th and 19th to create an educational and fun filled weekend. According to blogs of participants and auditors the clinic was a great success.

The two day clinic was held at Dancing Horse Farm. Jane worked both days with horse and rider combinations at all levels. During the clinic, Jane enjoyed seeing riders at each level try to learn through her exercises. If a rider or horse made a mistake, Jane would take advantage of this situation and try to improve upon it. This demonstrated to the auditors how to deal with some of their riding problems at home. One participant noted that she was really happy that Jane takes the rider/horse as well as auditors into consideration when giving a clinic. Jane wants everyone learning and uses the mistakes that are made in a clinic in order to teach everyone.

After the lessons of the first day, Jane gave a lecture on visualization and overcoming fear. Everyone involved felt it was an interesting talk with some new techniques on problems we all deal with when riding.

Each ride Jane used the same methodology, but since they were different levels she could demonstrate different moves and various problems that could creep in when riding. Most of the auditors could see improvement on several of the riders once they had finished their lesson.

MODA would like to thank Jane Savoie and Dancing Horse Farm for the fun filled weekend and educational opportunity for ourselves and our horses.