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Riding Basics, What to do when you first get on.

Do you have a mental checklist for before you start your ride? Or are you a ride by the seat of your pants person!? Implementing a quick routine at the start of your ride…
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How to get Rideability!

We all want to have our dream ride, and for me, that all boils down to the thing that people call “rideability”. What is rideability? It’s a feeling of connection with your horse, it’s…
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How do you get a steady contact and your horse on the bit?

As dressage riders, getting our horses to accept a contact and being able to maintain them steadily “on the bit” is one of the most important things for us to be able to do,…
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The Trot-Canter Transition

The transition from trot to canter is one of the most difficult transitions in my opinion! Most all horses want to come above the bit and use their neck in this transition. It can be…
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How to Post the Trot

Learning the posting trot is something we do pretty early in our riding careers and once we’ve mastered that rhythmic rise and fall with the beat of the trot, it’s like riding a bike,…
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How To Sit The Canter

People always talk about the “rocking horse motion” of the canter, and how wonderful it is, but when you’re having difficulty mastering the motion of sitting the canter, the canter can feel less like…
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Ride the Perfect Circle: Dressage Basics

Do you ever get sick of riding circles? Dressage is just getting on our horses and doing smaller and smaller circles until eventually we’re almost rotating on the spot (oh wait, that’s a pirouette!)…
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Dressage in the Jump Arena

Sometimes, when you really want to get something done, you’ve got to overcome obstacles and improvise. And sometimes, we can turn the obstacles into tools that can assist us.  Not every rider has access…
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Suppleness with Cavaletti Training

Start with a single cavaletti, then build up to two in a row.  For the Cloverleaf exercise, lay out four cavaletti in a box shape.   To ride the exercise, you need to… Come down…
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