I was 15 years old when I began teaching horseback riding. I now have over 55 years of experience teaching riding, adaptive riding, and vaulting. In the past I have trained young horses to ride and drive. I had a special interest in show jumping and equitation. I was grounded in my 30s due to neurological effects of genetic based challenges as well as illness and injury. But the world of horses was  a powerful magnet for me, and I found a way to continue to be involved. I began to learn about dressage and eventing and was fascinated with both disciplines. The section of this website entitled "About Stable Core Training" details how I was able to build a horse-based business in an unmounted fashion.

My business, Stable Core Training, based in the Upper Connecticut River Valley of New England, sprung from my own disabling physical and neurological challenges. I always enjoyed teaching youth at summer camps, and luckily I was able to keep that up. To teach kids about how horses move, I got down on the ground with them and began crawling around in the correct sequencing pattern for walk, trot, and canter. My defeated body got stronger from these exercises and I was able to add in leg-yielding, shoulder-in, haunches-in, pirouettes, etc... all from the crawl position. It miraculously enabled me to give up my walker and eventually my canes. That's when I started my business (2016) called Stable Core Training. I utilized, discovered, and made up moves and poses that would keep my lumbar spine strong and stable while my joints became and remained supple. I noticed that riders who trained with me using these methods became stronger riders with better positions.

Please check the section of this website entitled "Equestrian Training Pyramid" for a glance at the components of my training. Also be sure to check out the section entitled "Books".