April 2025
April 25-29, 2025: Mastery Horsemanship with Don Jessop
This is the perfect foundation for any horse and rider, no matter your discipline or the breed of your horse, with 3 full days of game-changing instruction and hands-on practice in a supportive learning environment. With great emphasis on connection, boundaries, bonding, bravery and basic skills, gifted teacher and master horseman Don Jessop guides you on your journey to being the skilled, sensitive and confident leader your horse needs.
Each clinic day includes classroom time and active group work with students and their horses, in addition to individual student/horse instruction sessions with Don. Mastery Horsemanship’s principles can be applied to virtually anything you’d like to do with your horse, so these one-on-one sessions provide a wonderful opportunity to try something new- or to work on something you and your horse have struggled with, and find your way to breakthrough! You don’t want to miss this groundbreaking clinic.
The clinic fee includes instructor fee, facility fee, optional overnight paddock, lunches, and a FREE auditor buddy pass with your paid spot. FREE audit of any other part of the clinic.)
CLINIC 1: 3-Day Foundation Clinic
Date: Friday, Saturday and Sunday, April 25th-27th, 2025
Time: 9:00 am-5:00 pm
Location: Eagle Bear Farm
Participant Fee: $775, $675 if paid in full by February 28th, 2025 (no-refundable deposit of $200 due upon registration)
Pre-requisites: None
Description: This clinic focuses on establishing connection, confidence and bravery, both on the ground and in the saddle. It is the perfect foundation for any horse and rider, no matter your discipline or the breed of your horse. Don will cover the model for learning: Connection, Boundaries, Bonding, Bravery and Basic Skills. You’ll get an understanding of the best leadership model, the ideal training cycle, and the 13 steps for safe riding.
CLINIC 2: 2-Day Advanced Clinic
Date: Monday-Wednesday, April 28th-30th, 2025
Time: 9:00 am-5:00 pm
Location: Eagle Bear Farm
Participant Fee: $775, $675 if paid in full by February 28, 2025 (no-refundable deposit of $300 due upon registration)
Pre-requisites: must have participated in at least one prior Foundation clinic; be able to ride at a Walk/Trot/Canter with other horses in a crowded area and in an open field, be able to establish connection at liberty with mirroring and send in circle at W/T, have basic understanding and skill of lateral work.
Description: The Advanced Clinic builds on the solid foundation skills to the advanced skills of collection, lateral work, jumping, advanced liberty challenges, bridleless riding, flying lead changes, biomechanics and other challenges.
Privates:
by appt. $165/hr ** discounted for participants $150 **
Audit fees:
$35 for 1 day, $60 for 2 days
May 16-18 2025: Energy Medicine Skills for Healthy Horses with Larry Green
Learn cutting edge Energy Medicine techniques to resolve behavioral, emotional, and physical issues. Class provides hands-on training using skills that are effective and geared for beginners. Learn how you can create better health for you and your horse. You may bring your horse or use one of the horses at Eagle Bear Farm.
The first 6 people to sign-up will be able to join for free! To claim your free opportunity (this is a hands on training), please contact to Larry Green at larrygreen1008@gmail.com
Emotional Clearing for Horses
Date: May 16th, 2025
Time: 9:00 am-6:00 pm
Location: Eagle Bear Farm
Participant Fee: $175
Description: Learn how you could have a closer connection with your horse and take control of those areas of health that you, as the owner and friend, are in a best position to understand and improve. Imagine how inspired you will feel knowing you can enhance the emotional life of your horse, and heal her with your own hands. In this class you will get hands-on training and supervision in the art and science of muscle testing, how to create effective goals, the emotional discovery process, equine fears management and a manual to take home covering everything taught in the class.
Kinesiology for Horses
Date: May 17-18, 2025
Time: 9:00 am-6:00 pm each day
Location: Eagle Bear Farm
Participant Fee: $350
Description: This class is a two day journey into new insights and skills for you and your horse. You can bring your horse on-site and practice what you learn on the spot with your own horse, or use the horses available at the barn for practice. This is a fun, hands-on class were you get to practice each new skill as you learn it. Class includes a manual covering all the material taught to take home.
Horse Biomechanics with Karen Copeland of Cavalcade in Lightness
Your session will focus on Biomechanics for the horse. All horses are born stronger and more flexible on one side just like we are. Without a rider they do fine. When we ride, this asymmetry and compensation for our weight over time causes muscle soreness and balance problems.
Dates: By appointment
Location: Eagle Bear Farm (Graham/Pittsboro) or Cavalcade Farm (Hillsborough)
Lesson Fee: $60/hr; $50/hr for 2 or more hours
Contact Lauren at Eagle Bear Farm for more details:
Phone: 919-452-3023 (Mobile Office)
Email: eaglebearfarm@bellsouth.net