Lessons and Training

Shellhaven Farm offers lessons and training with FEI rider and USDF Silver Medalist Michelle Johnson. Options for full
training  (five schooling or lesson session per week), partial training (three schooling or lesson sessions per week), and
week-long training packages are available. Michelle is also available for clinics. Please contact Shellhaven for more
details.
Michelle successfully participated in the North American
Young Rider's  Program (
NAYRC)  from 1992-1994.
She was the high-scoring team member of the gold
medal Region 2 dressage team at the Young Rider
Championships in 1993. In 2001, Michelle completed
her J.D. degree with honors at Drake Law School and
moved to Maryland, continuing her dressage training
with Dutch-born Bereiter Fred Weber while working as
a judicial law clerk
for the Circuit Court of Frederick
County.
In 2003, she returned home to begin her riding
and
training business at Shellhaven.
Vicky Johnson
Body Work Practioner
                                        ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Marc O'Polo
1992        Dressage in Orlando        4th Level Test 3                           67%
             Member of Region 4/6 Young Rider Team
                    2nd place in Preliminary Test
                    8th place individually in Team Test
                    9th place in Individual Test
           Festival of Champions, Gladstone, NJ Prix St. George - 6th Place
1993       Highest Percentage Qualifier for Region 2 Young Rider Team
                    2nd place in Preliminary Test
                    2nd place individually in Team Test
                    Highest percentage member of the Region 2 Gold Medal Dressage Team
                    6th place in Individual Test
1994        Highest Percentage Qualifier for Region 2 Young Rider Team

R'Gonaut
2002        Reserve High Score VADA/BLM                                        72.5%
            
  High Score First Level Open, Middleburg, VA     

Iron Naen
2004        Iowa Dressage Classic, First Level Test 4                          66.5% and 68%
           
   3rd Place Region 4 Championships, First Level

Cricket
2006        1st Place Bara Trac Team Challenge, First Level
              High Score First Level Open

Doekele van de Warnahoeve
2008        Cornhusker Classic - Reserve Champion Training Level Open
               1st Place Training Level 3 Open              
                        66%
                                     


Michelle Johnson
Head Trainer
Vicky is an accomplished horseperson who began riding at the age of five and mother of Michelle.
She taught voice at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa for 23 years. During that time, she became
interested in and studied body awareness disciplines, including Alexander Technique, Feldenkrais,
and Tai Chi. She has used body awareness disciplines extensively in teaching voice lessons and
later applied her knowledge and expertise in these fields to helping riders with their position in the
saddle.
Additionally, Vicky is an Usui/Tibetan Reiki Master, Level One Healing Touch practictioner, and in
2005 passed her
Reflexology certification exam. She is now offering Reflexology, Reiki and
Healing Touch treatments. If you are interested in receiving a Reflexology, Reiki and/or Healing
Touch treatment, or would like to be added to our mailing list, please call 319-895-8985 or
319-329-3854.
   Michelle has ridden in the Festival of Champions in
Gladstone, NJ, at the Prix St.George level with an
impressive 6th place finish and received her USDF silver
medal and Rider Performance Awards at both 1st and
2nd level. She has worked with
Jochen Hippenstiel
(Reitlehrer FN), chief instructor at
Tempel Farms,
Bereiters
Fred Weber and Felicitas von Neumann Cosel,
Uwe Steiner and 1990 World Equestrian Games Team
rider Betsy Steiner. She has also participated in clinics
with internationally renowned instructor Conrad
Schumacher, Gerrit-Claes Bierenbroodspot, former head
instructor at the Dutch Instructors' School at Duerne in
Holland, and German trainer Paul Kauthen.
  In addition to equestrian pursuits, Michelle enjoys
practicing yoga, photography, sailing, gardening and
spending time with her family and animals.  
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