Laura Parker

As owner, trainer, and instructor, Laura has over 45 years of professional experience in loving and learning with horses. Although currently training Dressage horses of all levels, Laura has been involved since her teens as a professional show groom, stable manager and/or assistant manager of facilities in the Westchester area of New York. This led to multiple Director positions at Pace University. Laura’s successful career began in the hunter/jumper ring and continued in the dressage ring showing clients horses as well as her own.

Her love of Dressage also encouraged her to focus her Master’s Degree from NYU in motor learning and kinesiology, which has greatly benefited her students through her understanding of the human body in motion. After five years with Pace University, Laura took a position as assistant to a local FEI Dressage trainer. This position allowed Laura to establish her own client base and as a trainer. Having had such excellent instruction herself from classical teachers such as Franz Rochowansky and Eicke van Veltheim influenced her desire to keep growing as a rider. In addition to Dressage, Laura and Thomas Lemens, director of the Institute for Alexander Technique in NYC, exchanged lessons. She then went on to be a part of the institute teaching Dressage to his 3rd-year students. Holistic care and “natural horsemanship techniques continue to influence Laura’s holistic approach to classical dressage. (Source)