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Dressage Canada Brings the Highly Successful Performance Advantage Symposium North!


Ottawa, ON - Dressage Canada presents the inaugural Performance Advantage Symposium in Canada. The first of the two symposiums will be held in the East in Stouffville, ON June 14-15, and will travel to the West in Calgary, AB to be held June 24-25. Today’s top ath-


letes use a full spectrum of tools available to develop their perfor- mance including mental, physical, complimentary and supplementary. By providing their profes- sional insight for begin- ners, avid amateurs and rising stars, the Perfor- mance Advantage Sym- posium presenters will include some of Cana- da’s best talent in the fields of high perfor- mance competition, judging, mental training and conditioning, sport science, sport physio- therapy, performance analysis, horse welfare and veterinary care, and supplement support for the high performance athlete. Each presenter will share their advice and guidance on how to use and develop tools for performance devel- opment on and off the field.


night held in Wellington in January 2014 was an outstanding success and


“The Florida Fort-


many of the attendees expressed the wish for Dressage Canada to set up the same type of symposium in Canada. So, we are excited to bring Florida to you, with many of the same presenters that were so popular with our top rid- ers,” commented Dres- sage Canada’s, Desi Dillingham.


Symposium Presen- ters:


Christilot Boylen, six- time Olympian and three-time gold medalist of the Pan American Games.


Alexandre Lamarsalle, co-founder of Equisens Osteopathy Clinic pro- viding osteopath care for both horse and rider. (Ontario only)


Dr. Karen Nyrop, vet- erinarian with special interests in English per- formance horse care, lameness, pre-purchase exams and exercise physiology. (Alberta only)


Sandra Sokoloski, a physiotherapist with a focus on analyzing movement patterns, cor- rect posture, body awareness and perfor- mance enhancement techniques.


sional self-development and mental performance coach for Olympians, World Champions, ama- teurs and professionals.


Cara Witham, the only official with FEI 5* judging credentials for Dressage and Eventing.


letes, Karen Pavicic and Belinda Trussell, have worked with Dirk Stroda as their mental perfor- mance coach. Both of them explained how powerful Stroda is and how they have used his advice for their own per- formance development. “I have had the


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nity to work with Dirk during the Florida Fort- night. He is an incredi- ble person who is com- passionate, caring and has so many tools in his tool box to help athletes achieve their personal best. During our ses- sions he gave me won- derful exercises and thoughts which I use daily in life and in com- petition. I am grateful he is in my life and I will continue to use Dirk throughout my career,” said Trussell. The symposium


privilege of knowing Dirk Stroda for over seven years. After utiliz- ing his coaching tech- niques for mental train- ing, I immediately had improvement in my per- formance. I had previ- ously had assistance from a number of sports psychologists however, once I had “Power of Coherence” I had the tools to remain in the “zone” in any situation. Dirk’s approach is unlike anything else I have experienced and is


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tat and its wonderful inhabitants. This book accompanies an exhibition at the Muse- um of Natural History, Halifax, that opens June 5, 2014.


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eastern Canada is the site of some 500 wild horses, 500 shipwrecks and 500 years of known history. Never settled, the island, also known as the “Graveyard of the Atlantic,” has seen temporary occupation by shipwrecked sailors, transported convicts, pirates and wreckers. The wild horses, named for the island they inhabit, abandoned there long ago or cast ashore from wrecks, are now the only terrestrial mammals on Sable Island. Roberto Dutesco’s twenty years’ documenta-


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