Welcome to Ancient Arts Dressage

Eleni Kangas is our head trainer; a professional

dressage rider based out of Loxahatchee, FL. Eleni specializes in truly improving a horse's natural gaits and teaching riders how to develop a true connection with their horses. Eleni has earned her bronze and silver medals, and has competed in the FEI levels. Eleni is a passionate advocate for all horses no matter breed, discipline, or level. Her passion of teaching comes from a place of horsemanship, and a true understanding of a horse's mind, body, and spirit. She loves to connect with pairs and help the perform in harmony. 

Eleni began her classical dressage journey at the age of nine. She started out working for three years under a German Grand Prix trainer in Virginia, and then found one of her life long mentors, Jeremy Beale, in Pennsylvania. Eleni was thirteen when she met the the esteemed master, who took her under his wing. Jeremy, originally from Wales, spent thirty years in the British Cavalry, and traveled all over the world with his horse. He continues to pass his knowledge on to Eleni. Eleni, over the last seventeen years has trained under multiple well known Grand Prix trainers/riders who have all had classical foundations.

”I wanted to create an environment where all levels of horses, and passionate riders can gather, grow, and learn the history of our sport, to be able to gain their own classical education to help horses everywhere. I feel the history of our sport dating back to Ancient Greece is very important to me. My ethnicity is Greek, and I have always felt a responsibility to my culture to bring ancient values of horsemanship back to the modern sport."