Position Position Position (location location location)  3 Disc 3 Hour DVD set  |
Eleanor Thibodeau is a 26 year veteran of humane and animal control
work. She has been a Washington State Humane Society Chief Animal
Cruelty Investigator, recognized by the Washington State Supreme Court
as an expert witness. Her career extends to having been the director of
Whatcom County and Bellingham Humane Society Shelter and an
instructor on Western Washington University Campus for the Northwest
Freedom University in Equine Sciences.Through her lifetime career, she brings humane techniques of horse training to her students of dressage, jumping,western and english riding and eventing.
Her
experience with horses spans four decades. She is a successful show breeder of Oldenburg and Dutch Warmbloods, Arabians, Thoroughbreds, Pintos and Spotted Gaited horses.She also has produced the largest herd of rare
Muniqi Strain horses. Eleanor has been featured in magazines such as Dressage Today, Equus and the International Arabian Horse
Association Magazine, as a breeder of fine athletic horses with her focus as a
dressage clinician specializing in Classical Dressage and the use of rider CORE position. As a horse trainer she
has 2 Grand Prix dressage stallions to her credit, a Washington State driving
champion, multiple English and Western Pleasure awards,Top Ten awards, along with a National Champion and Reserve Gaited Stallion and Mare. Her students show the ability of Eleanor in giving lessons by their successful titles of National Champion Equitation and Pleasure horses.
Eleanor maintains the proprietorship of Alliance Farms, dedicated to perfecting the equine athlete and teaching riders about the importance of core and leg position through rider core placement and pelvic alignment. She continues to serve animal control, humane societies and riders of all disciplines throughout the United States with continuing education through her many DVD s on Humane Investigation, Henneke System Illustrated and Horse Training for horse transport .
The Prayer Rein | The techniques that Eleanor uses was born in the concept of the Prayer Rein. A Prayer Rein is when a horse is ridden without saddle or bridle, only a mere soft rope around their neck is the aid to convey the riders requests to the horse. This takes finite and balanced skill of the rider to produce advanced lateral and upper level movements of the horse. It is to this end that Eleanor produced the core position and described the natural response of the crush mechanism in the horse. Morning Mabruq , a Muniqi stallion, performed for thousands of people under very stressful conditions of noise, lighting and space. His Grand Prix movements of passage, canter pirouette, were enjoyed by all, but, especially the Piaffe (the trot in place to which Dietrich von Hopffgarten said he had the greatest of talent). This true partnership of horse and rider developed the intricate and precise technique that Eleanor Thibodeau uses today in teaching her students the ART of POSITION by using the riders body core position, triangle of stability and applying dressage principles of horse training for all disciplines of horsebackriding . Focusing on Position for Women, she has developed a DVD and Workbook that has changed riders world wide in all disciplines: Classical Dressage, Western riding and English riding, Pleasure and Equitation. see feedback on the page "Position Position Position " for information on core, crush mechanism and triangle of stability", with many testimonials. Horses in Eventing Shows, illustrate well, the cross training of jumping and dressage. Both are influenced by the core position, triangle of stability of the rider and the scores they produce in both tests are interrelated. See her article written on the "Position" Page |
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292 Aeneas Valley Rd
Tonasket, WA 98855
509-486-0929
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