Lessons
Our team of highly skilled instructors tailor lessons to your specific goals and abilities. Scattered Acres consistently turns out highly skilled competitors and confident pleasure riders alike.
All lessons are given with individual attention to building excellent horsemanship on and off of the horse. We focus on body awareness of the rider and the horse to increase communication skills, build confidence and knowledge, and to achieve success at building a harmonious and successful team.
- Beginner through Advanced
- Group, Private, Semi-Private
- Balanced Seat
- Dressage
- Jumping (hunter/jumper)
- Stadium
- Cross Country
- Eventing
- Barn Lessons
- Trails and Fields
- Horsemanship
Beginner level lessons are for people who are new to riding and desire to learn the basics of equitation and horsemanship in the highest quality of educational settings. Beginners are only given private lessons to ensure the safety of the rider, a faster progression in abilities, and the well-being of the horse. All beginners start lessons on a lunge-line learning correct position, balance, and aids, and have several skills they need to master and riding tests they need to pass before jumping, cantering, or entering a group lesson. Beginners will be introduced to the nature of horses, how to communicate with them, and ways in which to effectively and safely handle them on the ground and in the saddle.
At the novice level, riders will build on their foundations to develop more advanced riding skills. To find out more about the skills taught at novice-level training, click through to our Novice Lessons page.
Advanced level training offers riders the opportunity to take their existing riding skills to a higher level. Advanced riding lessons focus intensely on how the rider affects the horse’s movements and builds abilities in collection, upper-level dressage movements, and more advanced jumping techniques in grids, courses, and cross-country. These lessons require a high degree of body control, exquisite balance, and depth of understanding in how the horse’s body works. Because of that, only students who are riding multiple times/week will reach advanced levels. Find out more on our Advanced Level Lesson page.
