JANIE SMITH
Since
1989, Janie Smith has operated Carousel Stables in Monroe, North Carolina as a 44 stall full service boarding and
training facility. She has been an instructor of natural horsemanship, dressage, jumping, working western,
first time owners’ education, and a fearful riders program. Over the last two decades, Janie
has developed her ability to teach her principals of balanced riding and natural horsemanship by studying under John Lyon’s,
Dave Seay, Josh Lyons, and Pat Parelli.
Janie has shared her horse knowledge
and personal experiences in numerous clinics and collegiate courses that have taught thousands of people how to communicate and develop a relationship with their horse. Janie has been an active member of the NC Regional Equine Information
Network System (REINS), Southeastern Horseshoers on Education (SHOE), the North Carolina Horse Council, as well as
a volunteer for the United States Equine Rescue League (USERL) and the Horse Protection Society of NC. In
2001, the University of South Carolina approved Carousel Stables as an equine education facility for students from the Lancaster campus. Janie is also featured in the Horse Sense in Horse Care video series.
Janie recently completed her Level 1 Certification
for Equine Assisted Growth And Learning Association (EAGALA) and is staring a program for Equine Assisted Growth and Learning
as the
Two Hearts, One Language program.
Contact Janie
at 704-591-0227 or carousel1986@aol.com.
STACY
SUTTON
Stacy has extensive experience with dressage horses, having grown up riding and taking lessons since
the age of 5. Stacy completed a working student position with Grand Prix level ridier Jessica Jo(J.J.) Tate (a protege
of Charles de Kunffy), one of America's up and coming dressage riders. Whe she was with J.J., Stacy had the opportunity
to ride extensively under the tutelage of J.J., Charles de Kunffy and Richard Williams on Grand Prix horses.
Stacy is now
available for private dressage lessons on our school horses or your own horse. Contact Stacy at ttweek1981@aim.com or 704-591-1309.
JULIE HEFFERNAN
Julie started riding horses
at the age of 6 and competed in local Hunter shows until college where she discovered Classical Dressage and Eventing.
She received her BS degree in Animal Science and her Instructor's certificate in 1986 from the University of New Hampshire.
In 2003 she discovered natural horsemanship and began teaching beginner and intermediate riders at Carousel Stables.
In Julie's words: "My primary focus is in starting young horses and riders and providing
them with a strong correct foundation. Safety first, then fun. Every student has a goal and it is important to
provide each rider with a solid foundation so that they can be successful. I offer my students the opportunity to
achieve not only success in their riding, but also self confidence and independence. Not every rider who I teach wishes
to ride in the Olympics, but all of them love horses and yearn for that special bond between horse and rider. A greater
bond is established when the rider learns to understand the horse and how it thinks and in turn learns how to effectively
communicate with the horse. "
Julie can be reached at 704 619 0774 or JHeffernan@comporium.net
