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Corinna Szymoniak
Therapeutic and
Vaulting Instructor
Corinna’s love for horses began at an early age and helped her to get
to know all the local farmers that owned a pony in her Bavarian home
town.
Growing up in Germany not only meant learning horsemanship, and how to
ride, but gave her a solid foundation for all her future work with
horses.
Before moving to the U. S., Corinna interned at the FS Reitzentrum
Reken (http://www.fs-reitzentrum.de/index.php) and
worked with Juliane Deppisch, whose method incorporates Feldenkreis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feldenkrais_method)
to help riders gain a much better feel and connection to their bodies. In
2002 Corinna returned to Germany to get her certification as a
vaulting instructor to help her daughter overcome her fear of horses.
Since then she has taught vaulting to integrated groups, pony clubs,
private individuals and therapeutic riders.
Corinna is the mother of four and enjoys every minute of working with
adults, children, and horses. She believes horses profoundly enrich
lives body and soul! (If you are
wondering, her daughter did conquer her fear with the help of a cute
Fjord pony)
Ann
Hardenberg
Equine Coordinator
Ann was born in Hagen, Germany. As
a child there, she took English riding and vaulting lessons and 20
years later western riding. She moved to the United States in 1998 and
settled in Sandpoint, Idaho where she owned and trained her own horses
and worked as a therapeutic riding volunteer.
Ann worked as a trail guide
outside Cody, Wyoming and then as a ranch hand for horse owners in
Idaho and Montana before settling in the Bitterroot Valley. Ann has
been the equine coordinator for BTR since 2005.
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