Virginia Dressage Association Charlottesville Chapter
a USDF Region 1 GMO
a 501c3 non-profit organization
a Group Member Organization (GMO) of the United States Dressage Federation (USDF)
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Biomechanics and Riding Clinic
Posture Partnership Performance
Clinician - Stacy Pattison
11-15 April 2025
VADA-CH Members: $325.00
Includes Friday night light dinner, individual session on the Balimo Chair on Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday 45-minute private lessons, day stall and refreshments/lunch. Additional fee of $40.00 night stay (includes night check, stall cleaning, hay, and shavings.)
Non-VADA-CH Members: $350.00
Includes Friday night light dinner, individual session on the Balimo Chair on Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday 45-minute private lessons, day stall and refreshments/lunch. Additional fee of $40.00 night stay (includes night check, stall cleaning, hay, and shavings.)
If you join VADA-CH before the clinic, you will receive the chapter member clinic entry fee. Go to Membership Tab to join and online payment.
Auditors: $20.00 per day (junior/young rider no cost.) (Include lunch and snacks)
Day Stalls: Please no cribbers. Include shavings, water and access to facility for hand grazing. Included in clinic entry fee. No working out of horse trailer to respect the facility grounds. Trailer parking.
Overnight Stabling: Please no cribbers. You may leave your horse overnight. (additional fee of $40 per night). Please bring feed baggies for evening/morning feeding. Bring your own feed buckets and your own hay if you prefer. Stalls are Dutch doors and have bars in the upper half between horses. There is not turn-out options.
Friday Evening Unmounted
Balimo Chair Friday Evening
Saturday and Sunday
45-minute Private Lesson
Out of Town "Need a Hotel". Two hotels recommended close to Old Raptor Farm located at Zion Crossings, VA.
Hampton Inn by Hilton Gordonsville, VA
Best Western Plus Crossroads & Suites
Clinic Fees
An FEI rider/trainer, instructor, young horse starter, USDF Bronze and
Silver Medalist
All levels, disciplines and experience are welcome!
No matter what your skill level, experience, or chosen discipline, if you aim to enhance your positional awareness, improve your riding skills, or build confidence in communicating effectively with your horse while mounted, this clinic is designed for you.
Old Raptor Farm, Louise Virginia
A premier equestrian facility
Biomechanics and Riding Clinic
Posture - Partnership - Performance
Clinician - Stacy Pattison
11-13 April 2025
Entry Opening Date: 3 March 2025
Entry Closing Date: 22 March 2025
LATE ENTRIES ACCEPTED WITH $20 LATE FEE if clinic is not full. No refunds after the clinic is closed/full. Note: Refunds only if the spot can be filled from the waitlist. The clinic is limited to 10 riders. Register early!
Clinic Format
Full Days
This clinic is made up of a 2 1/2 day- weekend format. It includes an interactive unmounted lecture with personalized rider balance assessment and adjustment on Friday evening. This part of the clinic is conducted with the use of a Balimo chair. The experience of the chair becomes extremely helpful for the 45-minute riding sessions each rider will have on Saturday and Sunday. Overall, with both the Balimo chair experience and clinician directed riding sessions, the rider will learn and practice the basics of biomechanics in terms of proper riding position. Clinician Stacy Patterson will share theories and new techniques developed from her years of experience. She will focus on how the riders’ body should communicate tactfully and balance with the horse.
About Our Clinician
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.
Rider and Auditor Registration - Deadline to Submit - 22 March
LATE ENTRIES ACCEPTED WITH $20 LATE FEE if clinic is not full. No refunds after the clinic is closed/full. Note: Refunds only if the spot can be filled from the waitlist. The clinic is limited to 10 riders. Register early!
Vaccination Records
All horses participating in the clinic are required to have Equine Influenza Virus and Equine Herpes Virus (Rhinopneumonitis) vaccinations within 6 months before entering the farm. Must be given at least two (2) weeks before the clinic.
Organizers: Nancy Doody ndoody15@gmail.com and Nancy Lowey nlowey@rockmail.com.