ABOUT

Owner & Master Trainer June Pedersen has over 40 years of professional horse training experience. June began training ponies professionally at age twelve! She has a BS degree in Animal Science with a strong emphasis on nutrition and biomechanics. Through the years June has developed a training program she calls the European Longevity Method (ELM). This training method is based on European principles, but includes a watchful eye on the symmetrical structure of both horse and rider. In 2012 June was named the Northern Illinois Arabian Horse Activity Club horsewoman of the year. 

 

To reduce resistance in the horse June works toward establishing clear communication between the horse and the rider. By reducing resistance, horses are sounder, healthier and happier which leading to a very long and productive life partnership between a horse and their human. 

 

ELM is not confined to any one breed of horse or discipline. June has eclectic interests, and has trained everything from mini’s to draft horses, from dressage to reining. Her primary disciplines are dressage, eventing, and driving. She has shown successfully at rated dressage shows in Training through Second level. She events at Novice level, and has competed in combined driving at Preliminary level. In addition, she has won carriage horse classes, Class A trail classes, and her students compete in a wide variety of disciplines, including saddle-seat equitation, hunt seat equitation, western seat equitation, and pleasure driving, as well as dressage, eventing, and combined driving.