Lisa Sharer Equestrian Stables

Lessons:
Lisa Sharer’s life-long passion for horses is reflected in her teaching mission: to build complete harmony between horse and riders. Lisa Sharer Equestrian Stables teaches beginners to advanced riders with a special emphasis on proper and correct horsemanship. Lisa and her staff focus on building safe riders from the ground up. Basic equestrian skills and safety precautions are emphasized from the start. Lisa Sharer and her staff use a training program that Lisa has spent the last 30 years developing, that focuses on classical, compassionate, and correct riding skills. All riding is built around a correct and secure seat, as well as balanced and independent aids.
Whether the student is a pleasure rider or competing in shows, each client is treated as an individual. Lessons, both private and group, will focus on each student’s needs and encourage self-discovery through kind and focused guidance by a trusted instructor.
Students as young as three and up are accepted for year-round study at Lisa Sharer Equestrian Stables.
Training:
“How would the horse feel? How you feel should be the same.” – Betty Sharer
These are the words Lisa Sharer heard often as a child and as a young rider. Her parents emphasized correct care and empathy when working with horses. Those values naturally translated into her riding, as well as into her training of horse and rider.
Lisa Sharer has been training horses and riders for 30 years, and her passion for conveying knowledge to her many students, both human and equine, has only grown as the years pass. By studying the philosophy of the great masters of classical equitation and learning from the horses she works with, Lisa has developed a unique approach to handling horses and riders. Her primary belief is that every horse and every rider is an individual.
This approach developed from Lisa’s earliest interactions with horses. Before she could walk, Lisa rode with her mother, Betty. When Lisa was three, Betty taught her how to rider on her own. After that, no matter what Lisa’s parents did to keep her out of the pastures, Lisa would sneak out to be with the horses and to study their behavior and interactions.
This early foundation in equine behavioral study formed the basis of Lisa’s long-standing interest in natural horsemanship. Lisa believes that despite the many schools of natural horsemanship, the theory and practice isn’t the exclusive idea of any single person. “Natural horsemanship develops form spending time with horses and learning from them. They are individuals and they will tell you what does and doesn’t work.
Lisa treats rider and horse as equal partners, and she believes the training of both is closely related. That’s why she prefers to work one-on-one with both horse and rider at their respective levels. This individualized training program helps develop a trusting relationship between rider and mount, and it also develops the athletic ability of each partner. In that way, the two – through systematic work – develop one another’s abilities.
Ultimately, Lisa hopes to create horse and rider partnerships that in the immortal words of Alois Podhajsky “give the impression of two living creatures merged into one.”
Whether working with a Dressage horse, a Hunter/Jumper, or a young sport horse prospect, Lisa focuses on developing steady impulsion, strengthening of the horse’s back, the elasticity of the horse’s movement, and pure gaits. Flexibility and strength are the goal because these elements will help develop a horse’s collection. Lisa uses a variety of methods, including natural horsemanship and the lunge line, to achieve her goals.