Melodye received her riding education from INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED AUTHORITIES. While apprenticing with FEI trainers Melodye had the opportunity to learn proper feelings & collection from many experienced GRAND PRIX & FEI HORSES. This experience has enabled her to train horses & riders of all experience levels, and she has trained ELITE sport horses for numerous prestigious farms. Every horse Melodye works with is approached according to individual needs and temperament following classical principles. Balance & harmony, understanding and partnership between rider & horse, & gymnastic progress are the goals Melodye brings to every lesson she teaches.Her instruction makes profound changes in the way the rider rides, and the horse performs. Melodye is a mature dressage trainer proven capable of producing willing, light horses in self carriage. Melodye is skilled riding sensitive horses, with a patient, systematical approach to dressage teaching, training, & riding. As a sport horse breeder herself, Melodye has developed award winning Oldenburgs who are winning in recognized dressage competition. She has been in the CHAMPIONSHIP RING AT DRESSAGE AT DEVON with her own horses & those owned by clients. Melodye has prepared many young horses for inspection, performance tests, & competition.She has rehabilitated horses with physical & behavioral issues using a holistic approach & she is experienced with stallion management,breeding, foaling, raising & training young horses.