Jeannette Sterner, owner of TPT Sterner Equestrian Education Centre in Roslin was Just three years old when she discovered her absolute unconditional love of horses. From the beginning, Jeannette started with vaulting to find the correct balance and had her first riding lesson at the age of six. At seven years old, Jeannette received her own pony named Schwalbe, a gift from her grandma. Jeannette was born in Gelsenkirchen, Germany and came to Canada in 2010 for personal reasons. The plan was to be in Canada for what she thought would be just a brief visit. She fell in love with the country and the people and wanted to raise her son in this beautiful country.

The name, TPT stands for Total Performance Training. Jeannette is a licensed Physiotherapist for horses in Germany , which Jeannette actively practiced in her own clinic in Germany. With her riding skills and the deep knowledge of the horses body makes it to a total performance training. TPT Sterner first and foremost is about the care of the horse and the proper riding techniques of the rider. The focus is to keep the horse healthy and fit; to develop horse and rider to their fullest potential so that riding becomes effortless and enjoyable for both. Jeannette says she keeps a close eye on the horses muscle and movement and teaches her students how it feels when the horse is using its body correctly so that they can recognize if something is wrong. The earlier the rider can address muscle or body problems, the easier it can be corrected. A horse is an athlete and needs to be treated as such.

Many people have influenced the career of Jeannette Sterner. Jeannette says that riding is like a jigsaw puzzle that you will never be able to finish, but the picture gets clearer with every piece you add. “I have been fortunate to have had Ingrid Klimke, Olympian Gold Medalist in Eventing and Helen Langehanenberg Olympian Silver Medalist in Dressage as well as Sabine Becker and Claudia Graff National Grand Prix rider as mentors for dressage; Jochen Schneider, National Eventing rider, Lars Meyer zu Bexten trainer of the German junior show jumpers and Volker Schmidt FEI level 3 course designer as my mentors in jumping and course design” says Jeannette. 

 

She goes on to say, “Becoming a physiotherapist for horses in Germany was a huge influence to my career.” To be able to understand muscle function and how it connects to riding enabled me to fully understand what good riding and bad riding is and how it affects the horse”.

 

Learning from Eckart Meyners (Professor of Sports Physiology and Body Movement at the University in Luneburg/GER) how to analyze and correct a riders seat through ground exercises, improved her coaching skills tremendously in helping the rider to sit relaxed and correct on the horse. Horse and Rider become a unit. Another puzzle piece was brought to her by Tristan Tucker’s methods TRT. His program taught her how to handle and correct horses with anxiety and behavior issues.

Anxiety or behaviour issues can get dangerous for both horse and rider.

Jeannette says, ‘to teach a horse WHAT to do when they are scared is the road to success’!

 

 

I am a dressage and jumping rider with over 35 years of experience, from which I spent 20 years as a professional trainer. I have ridden and up to Prix St. George classes and showed jumping classes up to 1.45 as well.

 

 

The Will of a horse is controlled by trust, Not fear.

To Carry a horse in your hand, you need Mutual Respect!

by Jeannette Sterner