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Focus on Safety
ARIA supports wearing of a properly fitted ASTM/SEI certified equestrian helmet with the harness secured during equestrian activities. [Learn more...]


The Summer 2010 issue of Riding Instructor magazine
Hot off the press!


Features

  • What’s new in Helmets from Charles Owen, Phoenix and Troxel
  • Teaching Children: Surviving the Teen Years ...... by Didi Arias
  • Top Ten Teaching Tips
  • Teaching the Fifty-Something Student ......by Jennifer Brooks Hippensteel
Departments
  • Guest Editorial
  • Bulletin Board
  • Sport Psychology: Coping with stress at horse shows ...... by Ann S. Reilly, Ph. D.
  • Legal Focus: In tough financial times – What can the boarding stable do with an abandoned horse? ...... by Julie I. Fershtman
  • Peer Profile: Nancy Cummings, San Jose, California
  • Teaching Confidence When does push become shove? ...... by Gincy Self Bucklin
  • Cameo’s Cauldron: Bullies ...... by Cameo Miller
Download Summer 2010 Riding Instructor (PDF, 8.4MB)

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ARIA celebrates 25 years of Innovation!


ARIA offers:

Association Membership, open to all.

Benefits of membership include:

  • A subscription to Riding Instructor magazine, a full color, glossy, quarterly publication
  • Insurance discounts with such top-rated companies as Equisure and Markel
  • FREE classified ads on the ARIA website
  • Membership card and color decal for your automobile.
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Instructor Certification.

Candidates for nationally-recognized ARIA certification attend an ARIA Test Center in order to be tested and evaluated. (ARIA does not offer, nor has it ever offered, online testing.)
Test Center Dates and Locations
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In order to maintain ARIA's credibility and high standards, each facet of ARIA's originally-designed evaluation program is protected by copyright, and may not be copied or used in any way without prior written permission.


ARIA Certification
In a Class of its Own


For the most up-to-date list, see Test Center Schedule and Locations.

ARIA has been certifying riding instructors and stable managers since 1984, and offers certification at three different levels and in 15 disciplines: Hunt Seat over Fences, Hunt Seat on the Flat, Dressage, Show Jumping, Driving, Eventing, Western Pleasure & Equitation, Reining, Mounted Patrol Training Officer, Stable Management, Recreational Riding, Saddle Seat, Distance Riding, Riding to Hounds, and Side-Saddle.

Nationally recognized and meaningful, the ARIA Certification Program uses a carefully designed and thought-out system of checks and balances to determine the earning of certification. A team of evaluators, located in various parts of the country, assess all aspects of each candidate's demonstrated knowledge of the discipline he/she wishes to teach, attention to professionalism and safety, and business and personal integrity. Even at Level 1, ARIA certification is hard-earned, which makes it respected and important. Major insurance companies recognize ARIA Certification, and offer those instructors a substantial discount on their insurance needs.


ARIA partners with Colleges and Equine Affaire


The American Riding Instructors Association (ARIA) has announced that Instructor Certification Test Centers will be held at five leading educational institutions in upcoming months. [More...]


A Magazine for Riding Instructors


Published by The American Riding Instructors Association (ARIA), Riding Instructor magazine was developed to support and encourage instructors of all disciplines. No-nonsense articles go straight to the heart of an instructor's business and teaching concerns. [More...]

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