Dana Butler-Moburg spent over six years studying with as both rider and instructor. She also clinics regularly with Judy Westlake and takes lessons from local trainers. She has also been to Germany to ride with Eckart Meyners in Luneberg and Hannes Müller in Warendorf. Dana is a fourth level dressage rider and runs a therapeutic riding center in San Juan Capistrano where she is the executive director, but is also a registered therapeutic riding instructor. She has also taught and cliniced privately for the last 12 years in dressage.

Her focus of the Balimo™ education has been to bring this information to the therapeutic riding world (Shea Center clients have benefited from the Balimo™ education) but loves working with able equestrians to help them improve the harmony between horse and rider through Balimo™.

She is a lifelong equestrian and began as a working student at a dressage barn in Seattle, Washington where she was born and raised. After 19 years of living in Southern California, she now makes it her home with her husband, horses and giant orange tabby cat.

Dana is also a Graduate Core Instructor & one of your board of directors.

"What I hope to get out of attending is furthering my knowledge of how Mr. Meyners' information applies to not only my teaching, but how to continue to integrate his work into the world of educating therapeutic riding instructors. Specifically, I am continually interested in refining my eye as to which exercises for which areas and to ascertain more quickly the better first area to start working on with the rider".