JC Horse Training - Juliette Cimetiere

07/07/2025

✨ Now accepting new clients in Redmond & Woodinville ✨
I have a few rare openings available for private lessons and training in the Redmond/Woodinville area. Services include:

• Groundwork & lunging
• Classical dressage (focused on biomechanics & balance)
• Liberty (foundational to advanced)
• Positive reinforcement
• Young horse development/problem solving

Whether you're starting from the ground up or looking on refining more advanced work, I can offer thoughtful, individualized support rooted in experience.

I bring over a decade of hands-on experience, including:
• Training and performing with Cavalia’s international tour (liberty, Roman riding, dressage)
• USDF Bronze Medalist (currently pursuing Silver/Gold on a self-trained horse)
• Clinics with Gerd Heuschmann, Pippa Callanan, Sylvia Zerbini and others
• Background in vaulting, young horse development, and performance

My approach combines classical principles with a deep understanding of biomechanics and behavior. The goal is a horse that’s balanced, confident, and genuinely willing—without shortcuts or force.

Lessons are available at your facility (I can provide certificate of insurance) , or in some cases on one of my own school horses if it’s the right match. Travel slightly outside Redmond/Woodinville is possible for groups of two or more (travel fee applies).

I am also currently booking clinics for fall/winter. Message me for rates/more info or see www.jchorsetraining.com

If you’d like to learn more or talk through your goals, feel free to reach out.

07/07/2025

07/06/2025

It takes the time it takes…

I’m never looking for quick fixes or superficial results. My goal is always to create lasting, healthy progress by encouraging horses to carry themselves comfortably, confidently, and correctly. The physical changes you see here are the direct result of slow, steady work prioritizing an upright, open posture (only recently starting to ask her to become slightly more “round”), spinal straightness, and a relaxed, engaged topline. Her training routine has been balanced and varied, including ridden sessions, lunging, cavaletti exercises, liberty work, and hacking out—rarely exceeding 30 minutes at a time, aside from longer trail rides where she’s typically ponied from another horse.

It’s a beautiful reminder that when we honor the horse’s natural balance and take the time it truly needs, we build horses who are not only physically sound and strong but mentally relaxed and genuinely happy in their work.

Trust the process—your horse will thank you.

24/05/2025

Save the date! ⚜️August 4th and 5th⚜️We will be hosting Sylvia Zerbini (Grande Liberté Farm) for a 2 day liberty clinic in Redmond WA. Click here to register to audit/participate https://forms.gle/sAv5kTZFjg7EQnA76

17/05/2025

Living in my own fairytale… 🧚

14/05/2025

My incredibly special and beautiful boy ❤️ 21 years old 🥲

12/05/2025

The brothers figuring out how to work together! I love doing tandem work with the youngsters. I just stick them next to an older horse and off we go! They have to learn to regulate their stride going straight on and through turns, helps also familiarize them with having a human above be no big deal.

18/04/2025

⚠️High neck does NOT = hollow back⚠️
Here is an example of a young horse who was well started and allowed to remain in his natural balance. Top photo is 2021 bottom 2024. The developpement in his entire body is pretty striking, particurlarly at the base of his neck/chest and behind the withers.
What was done to achieve this:
He was allowed to remain in his natural up/open balance and ridden mostly straight on with light even contact, rounded corners and large figures for the first 6 months or so undersaddle. Gradually I started to introduce more bending on smaller figures and asking for moments going/coming back (longer/shorter strided). Within that, when he was most balanced I started to ask for very short moments of lengthening the neck forward/(a tiny bit) down/out. So slight that someone on the outside may not even notice, just "if I offer wil you take my hand forward a little? yes? Thank you!" and immediately regather before he lost balance.
Here's what I did NOT do:
❌He was never ridden "long and low" ( appart from allowing to walk/trot on the buckle during a break or while hacking out)
❌He was never ridden "deep" or made to be "round"
❌He was never worked with any kind of mechanical aids or lunging systems (draw reins, pessoa system, elastic bands etc)
❌Like mentioned above I did not do much FDO or if I did it was calculated in moments of asking the neck to be a little longer. OR before a walk break where I will let the horse gently chew the reins from the hand all the way to the buckle before coming to walk.