![](/assets/img/team/avatar.webp)
Working Student At Dressage Riding Holiday Centre In Southern Spain Starting September 2024
Centro Ecuestre Epona Spain, Carmona, Sevilla, Spain
- Work Type
- Temporary; Permanent
- Work Time
- Full-time
- Live-In
- Live-In Required
- Bring Own Horse
- Training Available
- Non-Smoker
- Job No
- 375010
- Status
- Looking
- Updated
- 21/07/2024
- Expires
- in one month
- Views
- 13,089
We offer quality dressage instruction (5 lessons a week), onsite accomodation in shared apartament and breakfasts and lunches in exchange for stable work. The work includes tacking up for clients and trainers, and normal stable duties (no mucking out except on rare ocasions and feeding only once a week). Depending on the student´s level, there is also the oportunity to assist with the training of the horses, and do some schooling on your own. Again , depending on student´s level, you may be assisting with lessons and trail rides. This position offers the oportunity to improve your stable management and riding skills. Our qualified and knowledgable instructors , with the help of our horses, will ensure your dressage is taken to the next level, all while staying in a beautiful area of Andalusia , home of the Andalusian horses (PRE), where the weather is warm and sunny and there is lot´s to do. Also a great chance to learn or practice spanish language and about the running of a dressage and equestrian tourism business. For this time, we would need the working students to stay for a minimum of 3 months. We do not offer a salary, just board and tuition in exchange for work.
Students should be female, have experience with horses and have an intermediate level of riding. We have a weight limit of 70 kg for our working students. Sorry ,no pets.
Requirements
Pleasant personality, good team worker, eager learner, pasionate about horses, dressage enthusiast, dog lover, good with clients and public.
Required Key Skills
Riding People SkillsAccommodation
Shared apartament oposite stables. Apartament includes kitchinet/sitting room, bath room, double bedroom and loft sleeping area. We provide breakfasts 7 days a week, lunches monday to friday.
Job Benefits
Opportunity to improve dressage skills to a very high level, with excellent tuition. Experience living is souther Spain and learn about language and culture, most especially, about the Spanish horse, also known as Andalusian or PRE
- Employer No
- 100661
- Website
- http://www.eponaspain.com
- Location
- Carmona, Sevilla, Spain
The Centre has been BHS approved since 1995, was the first in Spain and instructors are BHS qualified. For the last 25 years the main activity has been dressage training and equestrian tourism. A family run yard, specializing in Classical Dressage with excellently trained horses (mainly Andalusians) at all levels. Epona´s main instructor and horse trainer is a graduate from the Royal School of Equestrian Art in Jerez. There is normally two further instructors working with us, one of which is a BHSI dressage rider. The centre is situated in the heart of Andalusia Spain, home of the famous andalusian or PRE horses, between the village of Carmona (10 min away) and the vibrant city of Sevilla (25 min away). The atmosphere is friendly and relaxed. We recieve different group of guests every week that come to ride with us from all over the world.