FDT About Me

About F

arah DeJohnette Training and Integrative Horsemanship

Bringing over 20 years of horse training expertise, Farah DeJohnette’s talent

in competitive horse training

blended

with

her

Natural Horsemanship and

Holistic programs, make her a uniquely skilled Trainer.

Spending the better part of her youth taking lessons, working, and

apprenticing for various local trainers in

the

Woodstock

area, Farah began

her first intensive apprenticeship with the Williamsburg Farm in 1995,

home

to the

great

Olympic stallion

Abdullah and state of the art breeding

operation. While competing and

training some of their

young

stock, Farah

began

learning all the aspects of the professional equestrian

industry.

After working at Williamsburg Farm, she returned to the Woodstock, NY in

1996 to work part time for Pat

Jacobson,

Trainer,

Equine Author and Artist.

At the same time, she continued to bring her warmblood mare,

Finessa

along in her

training.

In order to keep advancing her career, Farah moved to Connecticut in 1998

and worked with Jenni Martin

and

Steve

Mccallister, successful Grand Prix

Jumping rider and Trainers on the West coast circuit.

Moving to

West Palm

Beach Florida in 1999, Farah continued her training by

working with acclaimed Dressage

master,

John

Winnett, a seven-time

Olympian in Dressage and Jumping, and his wife Roanne, a Top

Eventer.

Returning to Connecticut in the year 2000, Farah

began

set

ting

up her own

business,

Farah De

ohnette

Training. It

was then

that

she began working

with

Virginia Leary a top Eventer and

FEI

Dressage competitor.

Farah

currently

competes,

still works

with

Virginia when

she can

and continues to

bring

along young prospects and sale horses for Competition and Pleasure.

Farah has also studied intensively the following Master horseman

They

have

had a huge

impact

her

style,

approach

and

methods:

Carolyn Resnick,

Pat

Parelli, Monty Roberts,

Mary Wanless, Linda Tellington,

Chris Cox,

John

Lyons,

Dennis Reis,

Chris Irwin, Richard Schrake, Anne

Kursinski, Bill

Dorrance,

Mark Rashid,

Paul Belasik,

Klaus Ferdinand

Hempfling,

Alois

Podhajski plus the many

clinics

and

lessons she

has attended.

Farah’s scope is broad and embraces many different methods. To sum it up

simply, Farah’s approach is a

blend

Dressage

based training

meets Natural

Horsemanship meets Balanced seat riding

or as I

like to call it "Integrative

Horsemanship"

From Farah:

“I would like to state that it is my personal pledge to myself and my

current and future customers to

continue to

learn,

grow, and stay open to

new information and techniques so that I can be the best that I

can be.

I am not defined by one training method: I am a

horseman

. There is only

one kind of training and one kind of

riding.

It is

called Horsemanship. And

that’s what I do. I study all disciplines and I learn from

each

one

create

a rich

knowledge base to draw from. This has allowed me the

versatility to

be able to work

successfully with all

types of

breeds,

temperaments,

disciplines, and levels.

In the end, the horses have been the greatest trainers I’ve ever had. Too

numerous to count, each horse

I've

worked with

has provided me with their

own unique lesson. In fact, most of the things I learned about

life, I

learned in the presence

a horse.”

F a r a h D e J o h n e tt e T r a i n i n g