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HH Classical, LLC Celebrating the Art of Classical Horsemanship Holly Hansen Columbus, NC Tel: 828-863-2825 Cell: 817-320-7581 |
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Celebrating the Art of Classical Horsemanship |
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Anja Beran Bio
My sole aim is to ensure in the course of my life that an increasing number of people become familiar with the art of classical horsemanship which has become a matter of such great importance to me, and that they will also learn to appreciate it. I hope very much that a great number of riders will be able to experience serious enthusiasm for classical horsemanship in its true and original sense. (Anja Beran)Anja Beran was born in 1970 to parents who were both successful entrepreneurs in the textile industry. Nevertheless she had a predominantly country upbringing, her favourite childhood haunt being her grandfather’s hunting lodge in the Altmühltal – despite the fact that it had neither electricity nor running water. Much more important than such commodities were the nearby stables which gave the young Anja Beran the opportunity to roam her grandfather’s hunting grounds for hours on horseback, accompanied by her dog. She soon achieved her bronze-level riding and driving medal and subsequently began to discover her passion for dressage.
Portugal subsequently became Anja Beran’s second equestrian home. Indeed, even in Germany, her life began to take on a “Portuguese dimension“ because, from the age of 16 onwards, she rode with Marc de Broissia, who had actually done his fundamental training in France before moving to Portugal in order to perfect his skills as a master of classical dressage. Marc de Broissia’s yard subsequently also became Anja Beran’s first “workplace”. At the age of 19, immediately after passing her higher school leaving certificate, she became a member of his training team and rode under his auspices for the next 14 years. This not only gave her the opportunity to ride horses of a wide variety of different breeds and training levels, but also to bring some horses on herself from the very initial stages of training to top haute école level. Today Anja Beran considers having completed such a long period of learning, with many different horses and challenges, as being one of her great strengths. And this is why she places great emphasis on continuity at her own yard. This establishment is Gut Rosenhof in the idyllic Bavarian location of Rudratsried. Anja Beran has lived there since 2000 and has been running the Rosenhof yard independently since 2002. She is currently working with around 45 horses – most of them stallions – from Germany as well as abroad. And because Anja Beran is a true perfectionist in everything which she undertakes, she also completed a distance-learning business management degree course in the 1990s to qualify as a “Diplom-Betriebswirtin (FH)”.
Furthermore she demonstrated her great commitment, in addition to extensive practical experience and profound theoretical knowledge gleaned from other classical publications on the subject, when she wrote her first book "In Deference", the English translation of which was published in 2006 and became an instant success. The magazine Bayerns Pferde voted the German version "Equestrian Book of the Year“ and it was even a subject of discussion in the German national newspaper Süddeutschen Zeitung. Meanwhile published in several different languages, it has already become a standard work of reference for all persons who are seriously interested in classical horsemanship. Additional to the book, Anja Beran has published four DVDs, which are in wide circulation. The latest mission and project of the 39 year-old dressage trainer is now the recently established Anja Beran Foundation, which sets out to represent the tradition of classical horsemanship in theory as well as in practice, and to give it new impetus. Training of talented pupils to become masters of classical horsemanship is one of the practical aims being pursued by the foundation. Naturally Anja Beran places great emphasis on sustainability as well as thoroughness in this context. As far as the theoretical aims are concerned, a series of publications and lectures are presently in the process of preparation and are subsequently intended to propagate the foundation’s message on a broad scale. For more information, please contact Holly Hansen at 817-443-3668 or via email
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Auditing fees will be $35 per person per full day, $25 half day. Saturday evening we will host a dinner and Anja will give a lecture. Dinner will be $18 per person, the lecture fee will be $20 per person.
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Recent Clinics
May 1-2, 2010 Clinic with Manolo Mendez Classical Master |
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Manolo Mendez Bio Born one of fourteen children, and raised on a rural Andalusian farm where life revolved around horses and cattle, Manolo's career began at 14 years old when he began training horses for the Domecq family. Within a couple of years, Manolo was training all of Alvaro Domecq's personal corrida horses ensuring that they entered the arenas with a brave, settled heart and mind, perfect balance and absolute responsiveness and coherence with their rider. When the King of Spain approached the Domecq family to create a School to protect Spain's riding traditions, Manolo Mendez was made second in command and became the School's first Head Rider, and one of six founding members of the Royal Andalusian School of Equestrian Art. Based in Jerez, Spain, the school is one of the four classical schools which also include the Cadre Noir in Saumur, the Spanish Riding School in Vienna and the Portuguese School of Equestrian Art in Lisbon. A master horseman with over forty years of experience spanning classical dressage, and every riding disciplines from puissance jumping to polo and doma vaquera, Manolo is dedicated to a soft, sympathetic and thorough training method which prepares horses physically and psychologically for each stage of training from training to Grand Prix and Haute Ecole. In particular, Manolo is well known for training or re-training the 3 Ps: Piaffe, Passage, Pirrouettes without cohersion or force. Not content to be an accomplished rider and trainer both in the saddle and in-hand, Manolo is also an exceptional equine bodyworker and trimmer who takes a 360 degree approach to horse care and training and does not hesitate to dismount and use different massage modalities to help straighten and release tight,stiff, crooked horses. In the word of one satisfied clinic rider: " Manolo is not just a master of dressage, he is a master of dressage as therapy for horses". While Manolo has ridden before the Queen of England, trained a horse for the king of Spain, was presented with a gold whip by the Vienna Spanish Riding School, and performed with his riders all over Europe as well as competed at the GP level with great success before moving to Australia, he has never wavered in his dedication and strict adherence to classical training principles and in putting the horse first. It is this dedication to the good of the horse and proven ability to develop healthy, focused, performing GP horses using traditional methods that has earned Manolo Mendez the reputation for being one of the last truly classical masters alive today. For more information, please contact Holly Hansen at 817-443-3668 or via email |
