Lessons, instruction and schooling — find a yard to learn the ropes or bring a horse on.
Stajnia White Pony in Jurcz near Ścinawa teaches riding to children from 6 years and adults. It offers dressage and jumping lessons, trail rides and preparation for riding badges and competitions. Its horses live out in a herd, and it also runs a small agritourism guesthouse.
Włochate Ranczo is a riding stable founded in 2018 that promotes the Hucul pony breed. It offers group, pair and lunge lessons, individual training, trail rides and carriage rides. It also offers horse livery in boxes or on open turnout, with 10 hectares of pasture and an indoor arena.
Wyższa Szkółka Jazdy is the riding school at the Partynice racecourse in Wrocław. It offers lunge lessons, beginner and advanced group lessons and classes for children aged 3 to 6. It also runs holiday day camps and sells gift vouchers.
Dream Stable is a riding school in Wielka Wieś near Buk, about 30 km from Poznań. It teaches children, young people and adults individually and in small groups on horses and ponies. It also has a sports section, vaulting and hippotherapy.
Paard en Mens is run by instructor Mariëtte Somer, who offers guidance to build understanding and harmony between horse and rider. Her work covers behavioural problems, understanding horses, horse-rider dynamics, rehabilitation and injury prevention, and rider coaching. Sessions are given on location at the client's own stable within about 50 km of Haelen in Midden-Limburg. Lessons and sessions with her own horses have been discontinued for now, as she no longer has her own accommodation.
Balans en Paard gives coaching, training and lessons to horse and rider. It teaches straightening and classical riding, from young horses to high level. Horses can be put into training, and it also offers natural horsemanship, in-hand work, bodywork and horse coaching.
The business offers equicoaching sessions in which clients work with a horse on self-awareness, confidence, stress and decision-making. It also gives private riding lessons from beginner to competition level. Further services include horse education, such as correcting unwanted behaviour and setting up a training programme, and ethology courses on horse behaviour and welfare. The site also lists separate psychotherapy services for people, which are not horse-based.
Sivona offers coaching with horses for people, focused on personal growth and development. Sessions are tailored to each client's goals, with the horses reflecting emotions and behaviour back to the person. The business also provides riding lessons and on-site instruction, including at the client's own stable. Riding schools, riding clubs and other equestrian organisations can hire Sivona for instruction, clinics or guidance.
Sonja Fleuter is a horse trainer and riding instructor for holistic riding education and horsemanship. She offers educational riding for children, MKA horsemanship, groundwork, loading training and advice when buying a horse. Her horses live at Ferienhof Rösch.
Deliah Schmitz offers riding lessons, horse training, correction work and young horse training in the Freudenstadt district. She teaches mobile lessons and at a riding club with school horses. Training places are available at two local yards with indoor arenas. She also offers coaching.
E(qui)motionale Balance is a mobile riding instructor in the Allgäu who comes to clients and their horses for lessons and courses. She teaches Dual-Aktivierung, Equikinetic, EquiClassicWork and other groundwork methods as well as natural horsemanship. Riding education, coaching and riding therapy take place on a private farm in Oberthingau.
EVERRIDE offers riding lessons on a dressage riding simulator at Gut Kerschlach between Lake Starnberg and Lake Ammersee. It caters for children, beginners, returning and nervous riders and advanced riders. Training focuses on seat, balance and aids.
Abenteuer Pferd offers horse-assisted coaching for children and adults, using free work (Freiarbeit) with horses to build confidence, communication and leadership skills. Clients can also learn to communicate with their own horse without halter or lead rope, and loading training is offered. Mountain rides in the Alps and pony riding experiences are available, along with regular riding lessons that combine in-hand work and riding. The business is run by Brigitte Lang.
Höchster.Team is a riding facility in Fluorn with an indoor arena, an outdoor arena, a lawn riding ground, guest boxes, a winter paddock and pasture turnout. It offers riding training for leisure and competition riders, with a focus on mental strength and confidence in the saddle. Training days called 'Reiten mit Mentaltraining' combine riding with mental training. The yard also takes a limited number of horses for training support.
P&P Ranch offers business and team coaching with or without horses, using horse-assisted coaching methods. It also provides Western riding training in a covered riding hall of 20 x 40 m and an overhead round pen. The yard has boxes with paddocks and an open barn, with surrounding pasture and turnout areas. The coaching is supported by a learning room with seminar technology.
The National Horseracing College in Doncaster trains people to work in the British horseracing industry. It runs foundation courses, apprenticeships, trainers' and assistant trainers' courses and a senior equine groom diploma.
New Leaf Triangle is an alternative education provider near Melton Mowbray. It uses horse riding, animal care, forest school and crafts to support young people with additional needs. It is BHS approved and runs holiday activity days.
EquiMotion is run by Sarah Davenport and offers HorseFirst Biomechanics rider coaching. Sessions include rider assessment, simulator work and ridden sessions with the rider's own horse. It also looks at saddle and bit fit.
Bérénice Lebreton is an equine therapist and psycho-practitioner in equine mediation in the Manche, Normandy. She offers equine therapy and teaches leisure riding and adapted riding for people with disabilities. Sessions take place at the Poney Club de Dragey.
The École d'Équitation du Boulonnais is a riding school near Boulogne-sur-Mer, close to the Boulogne state forest. It offers riding lessons from age 7, competition coaching and courses in various disciplines. It is run as an association.
Écuries Dagicour Cuvilliez is based at the Parc d'Almazan in Saint-Saëns, Normandy, since 1993. It holds the Ecole Française d'Equitation and Poney Club de France labels and welcomes children and adults. It is involved in show jumping and endurance events.
Centre Equestre de l'Orival is a riding centre at Les Grandes Ventes near Dieppe, open since 2007. It has an indoor arena, an outdoor arena and around 20 boxes. It offers lessons, holiday courses and livery. It welcomes school groups and people with disabilities.
The Centre Équestre de La Morelle is a riding centre at Manneville-la-Raoult near Honfleur, Normandy. It runs club riding activities and events. It offers box livery with grain twice a day and unlimited hay.
