Donna Snyder-Smith
A lifetime of experience, A legacy of excellence
To be or beat the best, you must learn from the best: Donna Snyder-Smith is the best riding biomechanics coach in America today. Her outstanding eye for rider skeletal efficiency and correctness plus 50 years of teaching experience allow her to facilitate prompt and dramatic changes in both rider (and horse) in a single hours consult.
The partnership between horse and rider is sacred: built on understanding and trust. Donna can help you deepen your relationship by improving your communication with your horse through better use of your body. Horses try their best to make their human happy. Being able to sense and understand your horse’s body language is important to the establishment of a genuine partnership. It is equally important that the horse clearly understand the rider’s body language (aids and signals) so it can work with a free mind, confident in the rider’s fairness and empathy.
“I have been blessed to be a riding coach my entire life! Join me as I continue that journey in this 21st century approach which allows me to access horse lovers all across America, no matter where you live. Do you dream of a bareback gallop across a grassy field, a beautifully executed dressage test, the adrenalin rush of jumping colorful monster fences in a groomed arena, fearlessly riding cross-country over drops, banks, yawning coffins and water splashes or the ultimate spiritual experience of you and your horse traversing 100 miles of mountainous wilderness in a single day! I can help you get there.”

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Internationally acclaimed Clinician
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Over 50 years professional coaching
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Author of 3 books
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Western and Classical Dressage Judge
- Worked with or studied under:
- Sally Swift
- Linda Tellington-Jones
- Peggy Cummings
- Monty Foreman
- Gene Lewis
- Mary Wanless
- Bert DeNemethy
- Jack LeGoff
- Denny Emerson
- Nuno Olivera
- Herman Friedlaender
- Charles deKunffy
- Anders Lindgren