2025 Education Events

Virginia Dressage Association, Charlottesville Chapter

Join us for a weekend with

Stacy Pattison

An interactive unmounted lectures/riding learning experience presented by Stacy Pattison. An FEI rider/trainer, instructor, young horse starter, USDF Bronze and Silver Medalist.

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Horse and Rider: Biomechanics and

Riding Clinic

11-13 April 2025

Old Raptor Farm, Louisa, Virginia

All levels, disciplines and experience are welcome!

Registration coming soon!

 

Horse and Rider: Biomechanics and Riding Clinic, a 2 ½ weekend format, includes an interactive unmounted lectures with personalized rider balance assessments and adjustments on Friday evening, which are extremely helpful for the 45-minute riding lessons on Saturday and Sunday.  Learn the basics of biomechanics and improve communication with your horse to address common riding issues. Stacy will share new techniques developed from years of experience, focusing on how the rider's body communicates with the horse. Riders use a Balimo chair to enhance their body awareness.

 

Rider 45-minute lessons - 9 am-4 pm on Saturday and Sunday.

 

More about Stacy:

Stacy Pattison is a lifelong horse woman, originally a Pony Clubber, Vaulter and Eventer. She learned many of her skills having worked with Phyllis Dawson and Karen (Lende) O’Conner during her early teenage years. Stacy is a USDF Bronze and Silver medalist with some Grand Prix experience under her belt. Having exclusively trained in dressage for the last 19 years she found her passion in teaching riders and training horses to work within their natural balance utilizing her intricate and very keen understanding of biomechanics. She strives to help horses give the riders what they want, and riders to utilize their own body control and less force to create happy partnerships in addition to obtaining more expression from the horse.

 

Stacy ‘s education has been influenced by trainers such as Todd Bryan, Jeremy Beale as well as clinicians such as Mary Wanless, Jane Savoy, Christoph Hess and many more. She is a very attentive active instructor always seeking to find the base route issue when working with anyone, always searching to find what makes sense to each rider.