Laura Parker
Head Trainer and Barn Owner

As head instructor and barn owner, Laura has 35 years of serious and professional experience in loving and learning with horses. She has been involved since her teens/early twenties as a professional show groom and local stable manager. This led to a position at Pace University, where Laura became the Assistant Director of Riding, and taught as a faculty member until her first child was born. At this point, she was mainly teaching Equitation and coaching the Intercollegiate Team, but remained serious about Dressage and continued studying with two local FEI trainers.

Her love of Dressage encouraged her to focus her Masters Degree from NYU on motor learning and kinesiology, which has greatly benefited her students because of her understanding of the human body in motion. Laura has always enjoyed jumping, and has had some real success in the show ring as an adult equitation rider. After five years with Pace University, Laura took a position as assistant to a local FEI Dressage trainer. Within seven years, Laura had built up a client base, and relocated as a trainer with ten horses to Blue Willow Farm. Having had such excellent instruction herself from classical teachers such as Franz Rochowansky and Eicke van Veltheim influenced her success in the show ring and desire to keep growing as a rider. In addition to Dressage, the study of the Alexander Technique, under its director Thomas Lemens, continued to influence Laura’s holistic approach to classical dressage.

The serious commitment to her work led her family to provide Laura with the financial backing needed to create Inner Circle Farm. After six years of searching for the perfect location, and two more years of intense work and planning, Inner Circle Farm was born. Currently, Laura is fortunate enough to continue the classical influence on her riding under the watchful eye of a Grand Prix trainer of the German system.

 

 

 

Rosemarie D'Ostilio
Farm Coordinator and Instructor

Rosemarie began riding in the CT/NY area in 1980. She rode equitation and hunters at several of the top barns in the area. At age 16, she met Laura Parker and began her pursuit of dressage training. Under Laura’s guidance, Rosemarie traveled to England to complete her British Horse Society Assistant Instructor and Stable Management Degree from the Talland School of Equitation. There she studied with Molly Sivewright, author of Thinking Riding. Upon completion, she returned to the states to ride and study Centered Riding with Saundra Cabel-Code, then a Senior Center Riding Instructor. She also has extensive training in the Alexander Technique and Iyangar Yoga. In her repertoire of experience, Rosemarie graduated with a BS in Therapeutic Recreation from University of North Carolina, has traveled all over the world and is a life coach. As a result, Rosemarie’s riding lessons are filled with body alignment techniques and are a truly an educational experience for any rider.

 

 

Peter Tringali
Farm project manager and consultant on improvements

Peter is a professional builder with 25 years experience in construction. He has built everything from condos in New Jersey and lower Westchester to incredibly beautiful 8000+ square foot houses.

A relatively recent addition to ICF, Peter began the difficult task of fixing and upgrading site work, drainage and completion of living quarters at the farm. As the barn is constantly evolving, Peter promises to make sure we are always on the cutting edge of equine technology, and will enable us to create needed and desired improvements.