Dressage Solutions: Activate your core and maintain your balance…

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Imagine you are a ballerina doing a plié. This will help you use your abdominal muscles and will keep you balanced and centered. —Janie Rentz

Janie Rentz is a graduate of Lake Erie College in Ohio, where she competed and won a national title. She has also trained and competed in Florida, working with Olympic riders, and she has worked at Performance Sales International in Germany. She has her USDF bronze medal and is now teaching, training and selling horses at her farm in Purcellville, Virginia (JLTrainingandsales.com).

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