Tanja Mitton
Training
Tanja Mitton was born in Germany and began her riding career at the age of 10 in a riding school. Falling in love with horses and show jumping, Tanja decided that she would follow her passion by becoming a full time rider and groom. This led her to work in a number of competition stables, one of them being at Alwin Schockemöhle in Mühlen.
She then decided that it was time to add more credentials to her name and so she became a trained equine vet nurse as well. At the age of 24 Tanja moved to England to work with an equine physiotherapist before dedicating more time to training and competing jumping horses. When she arrived in Australia in 1995 she became an EA qualified coach and a NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) Master Coach. From there on she focused her training more on the riders riding position and mindset coaching.
Tanja has since travelled around Australia and Europe, teaching riders of all ages and disciplines.
Some of her more memorable moments were:
– working with the EA High Performance Dressage and Para Squad in the lead up to Rio Olympic Games
– being invited to the Australian Institute of Sport to present a lecture to a group of level 3 coaches
– running coaches workshops
– writing her books “7 steps to the mindset of an equestrian champion” and “It takes two to tango”
– being involved with EQUITANA since 2010 as an educator
Tanja is passionate about helping riders overcome their anxieties and their limiting beliefs, while helping them to be more confident and positive.
“I find that often the issues that riders are dealing with are not always horse related. A lot of issues stem from their general life and just transfer to the horses.
Because the mind and body are so connected with each other, when the mind becomes limited it also limits our body.”
Tanja addresses breathing in many of her sessions as our breath will always reflect how we feel.
