2010 Clinic Schedule

Meet the PonyPros!

Clinics and camping trips have a maximum of 8 horses. Sign up early to reserve your place!

We are looking for some cooler places to spend a day here and there during the summer. If you live somewhere where the temperature is not too bad during the summer, let us know, and we'll come do a clinic at your place!

Demos -

  • May 21st, Friday Demo/Open House before Parelli Weekend, 6-8pm

Summer Programs - Horse Whispering Lessons for kids!

Groundwork, trick training, and horseback riding lessons! Plus adventures with trails, obstacles, group games, equine care and management, and horse anatomy where you get to paint the ponies! Great introduction to horses! Ages 4-14 campers, and 15+ as junior trainers. Riders will be divided by age and experience.

Camp takes place M/W/F, 8:30-12. Cost is $120. Get 10% off if you sign up with a friend or sign up for multiple weeks!

Only 9 kids max. 3:1 student/teacher ratio!

  • July 5-9
  • July 7-11, see adventure camp
  • July 12-16, see adventure camp
  • July 19-23
  • July 26-30, small group, 4 kids only
  • Aug 2-6
  • Aug 9-13
  • Aug 16-20
  • Aug 23-27
  • Or, weekly lessons, $28/hr, $112/mo. Work study options available for dedicated students.

Trainer's Clinics - $500

Learn how to create a program like ours! Come study with us for a weekend and leave with tools and techniques for instructing kids and ponies, fun PonyPros games and exercises, plus marketing materials for your business, video production skills, your own easy-to-update website. This clinic is also suitable for breeders, therapeutic riding programs, and 4H leaders. *If you really want to come but can't afford to, let us know. We'll try to make something work for you.

  • June 12-14

One-Day Clinics

9:30am-12:30pm, barbecue afterwards. Participants $50, Auditors $10/family.

Saturday: Bombproofing, natural horsemanship, groundwork, obstacles, "sending" your horse, "drawing" your horse, building your leadership, creating connection and motivation, developing better timing and feel, understanding horse psychology and communication, lateral movements, intro to clicker training as requested.

Sunday: Seatwork exercises for better balance, dressage in-hand, correct rein aids, united movement, connecting to individual feet, long and low, collection, changing the elevation of the hips, suppling the sidebody, footfall patterns, balance, straightness, impulsion, halfpass and shoulder-in.

  • June 5th, Saturday Clinic
  • June 6th, Sunday Clinic
  • Aug 14, Saturday Clinic
  • Aug 15, Sunday Clinic (loc TBA)

Multi-Day Clinics

9:30am-12:30pm, lunch barbecue, afternoon lessons and activities

Great introduction to the 3 elements of the PonyPros program - synchrony, migration, and play. We'll show you how to get in-synch with your horse/pony on the ground and under saddle, how to migrate on the trail to build contentment, and how to play to build charisma and enthusiasm. Participants $300-$500 depending on clinic, Auditors $10/family

  • May 29th-31st, Clinic in Bend
  • June 17-20 Clinic in Joseph, OR Deepening your equine education by working with foals, weanlings, yearlings, and colts
  • July 26-30, Clinic in Vancouver, BC, ponies in a.m., horses in afternoon
  • August 16-20, Clinic in Vancouver, BC

Adult Horse Whispering Camp - $300

Lots of fun! Yoga for horseback riders, horse photography, video review, natural dressage in-hand and under saddle, good food, interactions with horses of all ages and temperaments.

Topics - Understanding how conformation affects balance, reading horse body language, learning to see what your horse sees, becoming aware of your body language and energy, postural alignment, suppleness in the saddle, clarifying the aids, communication, and leadership.

Schedule - Check in on Friday. Evening campfire discussion. Full day clinics Saturday and Sunday. BBQ to watch the fireworks on the 4th. Review and wrap-up session Monday morning, ending in time for everyone to travel home. We will suggest a motel but participants are responsible for securing accommodations.

  • 3 Nights - July 2-5

Kids Horsemanship and Adventure Camp - Overnight $999, Day $499

 Lessons, training, and fun! Plus hiking, swimming, bike rides, knitting, beading, outdoor games, painting, trips to the lake, water balloons, camp fires, music, photography, videography, and trips to see baby foals!
  • 5 Days, July 7-11
  • 5 Days, July 12-16

Horse Camping and Trail Migrations

  • May 9th, Sunday, Mother's Day Trail Migration
  • June 5th, Saturday, 'School is Almost Out!' Trail Migration
  • August 6-10, Horse Camping

Summer 2010 Overview

  • May 1st, Saturday Horsemanship Clinic
  • May 9th, Sunday, Mother's Day Trail Ride
  • May 21st, Friday Demo before Parelli Weekend
  • May 29th-31st, Horsemanship Clinic
  • June 5th, Saturday, 'School is Almost Out!' Trail Ride
  • June 12-14, Trainer's Clinic
  • June 17-20 Horse Whispering Clinic in Joseph, OR
  • July 2-5, Adult Horse Whispering Camp
  • July 7-11, Kids Horsemanship and Adventure Camp
  • July 12-16, Kids Horsemanship and Adventure Camp
  • July 26-30, Clinic in Vancouver, BC, ponies in a.m., horses in afternoon
  • July 29-31, Auditing Dave Ellis clinic
  • August 6-10, Horse Camping
  • August 14, Saturday Horsemanship Clinic in Bend
  • Aug 15, Sunday Horsemanship Clinic in Bend
  • August 21-22, Auditing Marc Rea Clinic
  • Aug 28-29, Kali and Les traveling, students auditing Marc Rea Clinic
  • Aug 30-Sept 29, Kali and Les at Parelli Center in Colorado

Email

info@ponypros.net

Phone

(541) 848-9573