Liana Antanovich Dressage

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Congratulations, you have made your choice. Your best recreation you find in following training routines with your horse and enjoying your performance in arena. You are looking for 'classic, European' professionals to help you navigate in the training process and competition milestones.  Read about dressage training services, facilities and contact us to discuss your situation or if you have questions - you will receive a free evaluation of your case and possible training options.
 
 
 
Instructions and Clinics 
 
Do you know how great my coach is? Enjoy putting your horses in training and under supervision with "S"-level USDF, "I"-level USEF judge Sonja-Marita Vracko. 
 
In a lesson with Sonja one can perform things that are beyond one's current skill level. It feels like you are stepping into the future using the time machine, and accomplish and feel things that you will be able to perform on demand on your own and in competition environment in a number of months of hard work.
 
Ready to make Your trip into the future with your horse? Contact Sonja to schedule a lesson or a clinic, haul-in or in your home facility. A few slots are temporarily open at Sonja's View Ridge Farm in Woodinville, WA. 
 
 
  • FEI Dressage Competitor, Instructor and Trainer
  • Professional Dressage Instructor for over 15 years
  • Coached many riders in different disciplines
  • Completed USDF Instructor Certification workshop series 

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    In my phylosophy there is commitment to our riders and owners. But even more our commitment is to a horse, what is best for a horse.  

     

    Work in a school (arena), on hills, and over cavaletti. Work in-hand, lunging, long-lining. Training level through Grand-Prix. Find out more.

     

    Riding school on-line
    Accumulated over time experiences and live questions that riders ask, motivated me to conduct a few riding and theoretical clinics ("riding school in classroom"), enter USDF instructor certification program and start a dressage blog.

     

    Save a link to this site in your favorites. Come back often to check the latest news and read educational articles in my blog Riding School On-line, and post your thoughts and views, tell about your achievements and success. Recent blog postings are:

     

    • Conrad Schumacher's Dressage Symposium at Bear Creek Farm in WA, USA, 28-29 March 2009 
    • Riding In And Out Of the Corner 
    • Highlights - USEF Extraordinary Rule Changes for Dressage
    • Effects of Rising and Lowering Your Hands
    • Training Successful People

     

    After all, as Lisa Wilcox says, "Brain is the most important part of rider's seat". So, let us keep training it, too. 

    News! - Cervantes made it to "Flying Changes", equestrian magazine in the Pacific NorthWest
     
      

    Watch and Learn

    Edward Gal with Moorlands Totilas Kür 92.300% FEI WORLD CUP DRESSAGE 2009 UK London Olympia.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Theme of the Month

    If Horses Could Speak is a must watch DVD with an accompanying it book from from Dr. Gerd Heuschmann.

     

    How incorrect modern riding negatively affects horses' health. Rollkur and Classical Dressage Discussion with 3D imaging of the horse.

     

    Experienced rider as well as horse veterinarian Dr. Gerd Heuschmann utilizes the highest degree of technological help to capture the horse in 3D and clearly demonstrates the biomechanics of the horse and showcases the 'torture' that rollkur can cause in the breakdown of the horse.

     

    The material here is explicit detailing each gait and reviewing the false high head position as well as the hyperflexion techniques that are currently widely rewarded in competition arenas around the world. Appreciated for his plain speaking on behalf of the horse and his depth of research and understanding of the horse both in mind and body, any rider will be impressed by this material.

     

    David de Wispelaere does an excellent job of showing a young chestnut gelding through all the paces and there is footage from various events around the world that provides evidence of the complete lack of walk in some Grand Prix horses, 'spectacular' leg actions and stiff and tense backs, as well as the classical methods upheld by other riders and the difference between the two. The production is of high quality and Dr. Heuschmann has presented a factual basis for asking judges around the world to return to rewarding the true classical training of a horse. There is nothing inflammatory in this work and the viewer is easily able to determine the best way forward for training the horse if their goal is to keep their mount happy and sound. Input from the highly regarded Dr. Heinz Meyer, Jochin Schleese (saddle maker and rider) and Johann Riegler of the Spanish Riding School of Vienna provide their own points of view on the subject. The stunning study completed in the Netherlands that detailed over seventy percent of the horses there are unsound and queueing at clinics for repair by the age of eight was a revelation.