About Anja Beran 
Born in 1970 in Frankfurt.
She grew up with horses and dogs in her family, in her childhood her riding was almost exclusively out in the country, often for hours on end. Later on she passed the German examination for the Riding and Driving Bronze Plaque and soon discovered her passion for dressage.
At the early age of 15 years she came into contact with the equestrian expert Luis Valenca in Portugal and at 16 she met the trainer Manuel Jorge de Oliveira there. He became her "mentor" and still accompanies her and supports her riding ambitions today.
During the same period she got to know Marc de Broissia in Germany and since the age of 15 she has received riding lessons from him. Immediately after completing her A level examinations, she became an established member of his training team and worked together with him for 16 years. In this context she had the possibility of riding horses of different breeds and levels of training and, after many years in which she was gaining experience herself, she was able to bring on some horses herself right through from a young age to the highest level. These include, for example the Lusitano stallion "Homero", the Cruzado stallion "Jupiter", with whom she has also won dressage competitions a number of times on the occasion of the "Day of the Iberian Horse", or also the Lusitano stallion "Hoggar".
The fact that she rode every day for a period of 16 years under the auspices of the same trainer and brought many horses on from their earliest beginnings, is also something which puts her into a different class from many other dressage trainers or riding instructors.
Since 2002 she has been running her own training yard at Gut Rosenhof. She has about 40 stallions there for training from Germany and abroad and the yard has meanwhile become synonymous with classical horsemanship. Another fact worthy of mention is that, on account of her full-time riding job, Anja Beran completed her studies of economics in the form of a correspondence course which she concluded with a degree and the academic title "Diplom-Betriebswirtin FH".
The meeting with the equine vet from Warendorf, Dr. Gerd Heuschmann, in 2004 led to a joint project: "In Deference!“ was published in German in 2005, appeared in its second edition just 3 months later and was awarded the title "Equestrian Book of the Year" by the magazine "Bayern´s Pferde“. A renowned German newspaper, the "Süddeutsche Zeitung" also found words of praise for this publication which expresses genuine respect and love for the living creature from beginning to end.
Already one year later, in October 2006, the instructional film appeared "The Art of Fine Dressage" at the end of which Dr. Gerd Heuschmann explains medical-scientific facts in support of classical dressage training.

"The intention of this film is to give riders a different understanding of dressage and to make clear: Dressage is made for the horse and horses are not made for dressage!"

"A sound and careful basic training is the most important basis for any horse’s successful development. In the film “Elegant Dressage Training, vol. 2”, Anja Beran and her team show how they work with young horses."

"Following the proper basic training, the horse has the necessary basis to continue with gymnastic exercises. In the third volume of this series, Anja Beran and her mentor Manuel Jorge de Oliveira show how advanced horses grow into higher exercises of classical equitation. The film copes with difficulties during training, for example the natural crookedness."