Behler Equestrian, LLC

08/19/2024

We are excited to announce a low key fun show on November 3rd! Start time 8am! Show jackets recommended but not required! Some fun classes at the end and we are opening some of the divisions to all levels of riders!

We look forward to seeing everyone there!

Laura Behler
484-695-4665
Behlerequestrianllc.com
[email protected]

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08/17/2024

So many great things going on the past 2 weeks for lessons! So many firsts for some riders, confidence gains for some, new horses to ride for some others, first jumps for a few as well!

So proud of all of our students and I can't wait to see the program continue to grow!

Also so happy to have our lesson pony Cookie back and healthy from Mid Atlantic!

Our lesson program and barn family is growing and we have openings for September! Give us a call at 484-695-4665, send us a message, or visit our website at Behlerequestrianllc.com

Happy Riding! The Behler Equestrian Team!

07/23/2024

Make Them Carry Their Saddle

A father of darling girl and I were talking last week and he said that he wanted his daughter to ride more and not have to do the work part of the catching, grooming, and saddling. I smiled as I explained.

Riding horses is a combination of strength, timing, and balance. Kids in this country are physically weak (unless they are actively involved with weight training and physical conditioning 4+ times a week.)

When you walk out to the field, you are clearing your stress from being under fluorescent lights all day; feeling the sun soak into your bones. As your body moves on uneven surfaces, it strengthens your legs and core.

When you groom your horse (especially currying), you are toning your arms and stabilizing your core.

When you carry your saddle, your arms, chest, and back are doing isolated strengthening work.

Being near horses, calms and makes you tune into the splendor of these empathetic animals.

When you ride at a posting trot, it’s equivalent to a slow jog calorie burn wise.

After a lesson, the riders are physically tired and mentally quiet and balanced.

Horses feel your heart beat and mirror your emotions back.

Riding large and somewhat unpredictable animals makes you resilient and pushes your expectations.

Working with horses is so much more than learning how to ride.

So parents, make your children carry their saddles. Don’t do the hard parts for them, as long term it actually hurts them. To advance with their riding, they must get stronger. You can help by doing the high parts.

Letting them do the above also builds independence, confidence, curiosity, ability to ask questions abouttopics they dint know, and general knowledge. Key things needed for life! Not just horses....

I love having you all at the farm, and am so grateful to get to share these fascinating animals with you.

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07/23/2024

I wish I got more pictures from tonight but I am SO proud of ALL of my students tonight!

Nadia got a good posting trot today and found the rhythm!

Elise jumped her first 2'3 fence on cookie and NAILED it!

Molly got back to jumping some crossrails with some confidence on Dancer!

And Riley rode Marvel in preparation for show season, then hopped on cookie for show prep and to finish up her lesson and jumped her first 2'9 fence on Cookie and also nailed it!

Congratulations to everyone tonight! You should be proud of yourselves! I know I certainly am! You have all made such progress since November! 🦄❤️

Happy Riding! 🦄

The Behler Equestrian Team! 🦄

07/22/2024

Arena refresh! Can't wait to add new standards and start working on jumper jumps/rails! 2025 show season will be one you won't want to miss!! 🦄

07/21/2024

Arena reset today! Can't wait to jump around tomorrow morning! 😍🦄

07/17/2024

We currently have openings for Tuesday night lessons and Wednesday morning/day lessons!

We are a Hunter/Jumper lesson and show barn! Our head instructor is a USEF professional and safe sport certified!

If interested in joining our team please contact Laura at 484-695-4665

07/15/2024

Titan says he is tired of this heat! But he enjoyed his bath today!

Keep cool! No lessons today or tomorrow!

07/13/2024

Halfway through July already! This year is flying! All our students have been working hard and handling the heat okay! We look forward to our next show on August 1st!

07/08/2024

SOLD! Congratulations Heather!

Nova
6 yr old
16hh
Homered TB
Mare

I took her in with the intentions to bring her along in the hunters/jumpers and I just have not had time! Would love to move her along and see her blossom!

She needs a confident intermediate with a trainer or advanced with a trainer or professional to bring her along! She is a lunge before you ride type, she does best with 24/7 turnout, she is not adjusting well to being stalled half the day with us. She is broke WTC and has small/crossrail jumping experience. She does trail ride but does best with a group as she is green and gets nervous sometimes.

Cross ties well and standswell for the farrier. UTD on coggins/boosters. I have video and pictures available. I am negotiable I just want to see her go to someone who can bring her along! I realized at this point in my life I just AK not up to working with the project horses! I thought I was but life just says otherwise 🤣

✌️🖐✊️✊️ obo
Allentown PA

07/02/2024

Lessons for tonight included a group ride going over traffic saftey, navigation of bridges, and maneuvering up and down hills!

So proud of everyone! Confidence boosters for all the kids! Nova did better than expected but we still have work to do 🤣

Post ride snacks Included foraging for raspberries at the farm!

We have openings for lessons and lease opportunities available! 🦄

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07/01/2024

SCHOOL'S OUT! Love horses and want to spend the summer in the barn?!

We can help!

SAVE $20 on your first lesson! Intro lessons are normally $70!

Behler Equestrian, LLC offers riding lessons specializing in creating safe, confident, well-rounded equestrians while providing a positive and fun atmosphere to grow and learn in!

We offer lessons and show teams! (Locally and rated!)

Come visit and take a tour, sit in on a lesson, or catch us at a horse show!

Send us a message now to schedule your riding lessons so we can get you in the saddle sooner than later!

Spots fill quickly and we don't over book our lesson horses so once the spots are filled they are gone until we have more spots open up!

We look forward to seeing you in the barn!

🦄 The Behler Equestrian Team

🦄 Jumping to new heights to help you achieve all of your equestrian dreams!

Conveniently located in Allentown, PA off of Cedar Crest BLVD!

Behlerequestrianllc.com
[email protected]
484-695-4665 (text/call)

Offering horseback riding lessons, boarding, summer camps, and a local show series.

06/30/2024

Wishing a big congratulations to Elise on her lease of our medium pony "Cookies N Dreams"! Can't wait to see these two in the show ring! 🦄❤️

We have lease options and lesson opportunities available!

Happy Riding!

🦄 The Behler Equestrian Team!

Behlerequestrianllc.com

06/16/2024

Things your riding instructor wants you to know:
1. This sport is hard. You don't get to bypass the hard…..every good rider has gone through it. You make progress, then you don't, and then you make progress again. Your riding instructor can coach you through it, but they cannot make it easy.

2. You're going to ride horses you don't want to ride. If you're teachable, you will learn from every horse you ride. Each horse in the barn can teach you if you let them. IF YOU LET THEM. Which leads me to…

3. You MUST be teachable to succeed in this sport. You must be teachable to succeed at anything, but that is another conversation. Being teachable often means going back to basics time and time and time again. If you find basics boring, then your not looking at them as an opportunity to learn. Which brings me to…..

4. This sport is a COMMITMENT. Read that, then read it again. Every sport is a commitment, but in this sport your teammate weighs 1200 lbs and speaks a different language. Good riders don't get good by riding every once in awhile….they improve because they make riding a priority and give themsevles opportunity to practice.

5. EVERY RIDE IS AN OPPORTUNITY. Even the walk ones. Even the hard ones. Every. Single. Ride. Remember when you just wished someone would lead you around on a horse? Find the happiness in just being able to RIDE. If you make every ride about what your AREN'T doing, you take the fun out of the experience for yourself, your horse, and your instructor. Just enjoy the process. Which brings me to...

6. Riding should be fun. It is work. and work isn't always fun.....but if you (or your rider) are consistently choosing other activities or find yourself not looking forward to lessons, it's time to take a break. The horses already know you don't want to be here, and you set yourself up for failure if you are already dreading the lesson before you get here.

7. You'll learn more about horses from the ground than you ever will while riding. That's why ground lessons are important, too. If you're skipping ground lessons (or the part of your lesson that takes place on the ground), you're missing out on the most important parts of the lesson. You spend far more time on the ground with horses than you do in the saddle.

8. Ask questions and communicate. If you're wondering why your coach is having you ride a particular horse or do an exercise, ask them. Then listen to their answer and refer to #3 above.

9. We are human beings. We make decisions (some of them life and death ones) every day. We balance learning for students with workloads for horses and carry the bulk of this business on our shoulders. A little courtesy goes a long way.

Of all the sports your child will try through their school years, riding is one of 3 that they may continue regularly as adults (golf and skiing are the others). People who coach riding spend the better part of their free time and much of their disposable income trying to improve their own riding and caring for the horses who help teach your child. They love this sport and teaching others…..but they all have their limits. Not all good riders are good coaches, but all good coaches will tell you that the process to get good is not an easy one.

*thank you to whomever wrote this! Not my words, but certainly a shared sentiment!

06/06/2024

SCHOOL'S OUT! Love horses and want to spend the summer in the barn?!

We can help!

SAVE $20 on your first lesson! Intro lessons are normally $70!

Behler Equestrian, LLC offers riding lessons specializing in creating safe, confident, well-rounded equestrians while providing a positive and fun atmosphere to grow and learn in!

We offer lessons and show teams! (Locally and rated!)

Come visit and take a tour, sit in on a lesson, or catch us at a horse show!

Send us a message now to schedule your riding lessons so we can get you in the saddle sooner than later!

Spots fill quickly and we don't over book our lesson horses so once the spots are filled they are gone until we have more spots open up!

We look forward to seeing you in the barn!

🦄 The Behler Equestrian Team

🦄 Jumping to new heights to help you achieve all of your equestrian dreams!

Conveniently located in Allentown, PA off of Cedar Crest BLVD!

Behlerequestrianllc.com
[email protected]
484-695-4665 (text/call)

05/28/2024

After much consideration we are unfortunately canceling our 2024 horse show series. We plan to re evaluate a few things for 2025 and bring you a show series we are confident and proud of! We apologize for any inconveniences this may have caused anyone. Thank you.

🦄 The Behler Equestrian Team

05/27/2024

We are looking for a second instructor as our program has grown!

We are looking for a competent instructor to cover some of our lesson days during the week plus one weekend day. Full weeks needed when our head trainer is away! Pay based on experience! LOCATED IN ALLENTOWN PA

Requirements are:

🦄Experience instructing (beginner-low jumping)
🦄 Assistance at horse shows if needed
🦄 Personal show experience in Hunters/Jumpers
🦄Ride time/training/lessons/showing opportunities for the right candidate!
🦄 Bonus if you have a horse that we can use in the program occasionally as well. (Board assistance to be discussed)

For more information please send resume and questions to [email protected] or call/text Laura at 484-695-4665

🦄 Happy Riding!

🦄 The Behler Equestrian Team

05/16/2024

For consideration!: LOW LOW 4's annual/semi annual lease off/on farm.

Cookies N Dreams!

13 yr old
13.1hh
Pinto pony
Mare

Cookie is a pony with her own motor and needs a brave kid that is quiet yet firm or a young adult in a professional program to bring her along!

Cookie has potential to be a division pony as she has coursed 2'6 at home easily, with time and finishing lead changes will be there, she swaps the fronts but misses the hinds. Due to some family medical issues and cookie preferring to have one or two riders compared to a lesson program I am looking to lease her.

Cookie does not care about fillers, trailers well, Stands on good for vet/farrier/clipping/baths. She is saintly on trail rides and Is as cute as a button!

Cookie is sensitive to saddle fit and will tell you if she does not like the saddle choice!

Any questions please feel free to send me a message or text me
484-695-4665

05/13/2024

Finished the week strong at Princeton Show Jumping with Haley and Calvin! Congratulations! Thank you Greta for all your help this week! We are always appreciative of your knowledge and advice!

05/10/2024

We are out at Princeton Show Jumping this week with tthe team! Haley is Dabbling in the jumpers and hunters with Calvin this week!

04/21/2024

We had a good day showing at Blue Valley! Although we didn't get some ribbons we were hoping for we did pick up a few! There was alot of tough competition out for being so early in the season! We have some things to work on the next 2 weeks before our next show but looking forward to seeing growth as the season goes! Hannah and Dancer had their debut today for showing and Cookie had her first hunter show ever! Riley and Gem picked up a ribbon in their M&S class and one in their hunter class!

Congratulations ladies! So proud of all of you!

04/20/2024

This pony blows my mind every single ride! Prepping Haley and Cookie for Sundays show! Once this pony finishes off her lead changes and learns to carry herself better/nicer she's going to be a hard one to beat!!

Looking forward to Sunday and coaching Hannah and Dancer, Cookie and Haley, and Rikey and Gem! 🦄🦄🦄

Happy Riding!

🦄 The Behler Equestrian Team!

04/11/2024

Shawn Mack Show Jumping Clinic ** POSTPONED**


Shawn Mack rode as a junior with Missy Clark in the equitation, junior hunters, and high junior jumpers. In his professional career he has gone on to compete at the Grand Prix level both nationally and internationally. Shawn has a successful business developing and selling hunters, jumpers, and equitation horses.

Shawn encourages students to be successful in a fun, yet competitive atmosphere. He has brought riders along from the 2’6” up to indoor finals in the equitation, hunters, and jumpers, as well as the Grand Prix Level. Juniors and amateurs alike, Shawn enjoys helping students and horses improve as they reach their goals.

Located in Allentown PA
Inquire for pricing!

Sign ups are open!
RSVP BY APRIL 20th!

Email - [email protected]
Call/text - 484-695-4665
Visit our website at Behlerequestrianllc.com

04/01/2024

It is unfortunate to announce but with all the rain coming this week we unfortunately will be canceling out April 6th horse show..... we have to take into consideration the overall condition of our ring and show grounds. We regret to make this announcement but we know our ring pretty well and it is slow to dry and the grass in the top field for parking will be a mess with mud and all the trailers.... we hope to see everyone at our May 4th horse show!

We will be looking into hosting an open schooling day for those looking to school some of our fences! More details to come!

Thank you all for understanding!

The Behler Equestrian Team 🦄

03/31/2024

Happy Easter from the Behler Equestrian Team!

03/28/2024

What a beautiful sunset overlooking the show ring tonight! 😍😍