The students Karen Rohlf teaches tend to fall into two different categories: Natural horsemanship students looking for education in the gymnastics of dressage, and dressage students who are looking for a new perspective or better partnerships with their horses.

Recently, she is happy to report, that even those lines are getting blurred.

More and more dressage students have already delved into the practices of natural horsemanship and are now coming full circle back to dressage. More and more people are realizing that it is less about trying to combine two different disciplines and more about a blending of knowledge, and an recognizing of common threads.

Karen Rohlf loves to teach and can customize a clinic for any group. Her clinics are a combination of theory, simulation, and semi-private or private lessons, as well as group exercises. Contact us to see about setting up a clinic in your area, or if you are near Florida, you and several of your peers can set up a clinic at Karen Rohlf’s Temenos Fields, near Ocala, FL.

It makes sense when we remember that horses are not born dressage horses or natural horsemanship horses.... they are all simply horses, wanting to be understood mentally, emotionally and physically.

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