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A rider wearing a helmet and colorful shirt is practicing the fundamentals of dressage on a chestnut horse with white leg wraps in an outdoor arena surrounded by trees and a fence.

It’s all about the Basics

Working on the basics may not be sexy or fun, but the basics are what allow you to ride beautiful, uphill flying changes, half passes, and experience moments of harmonious connection with your horse….
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A rider on a chestnut horse practices dressage on an outdoor arena. Beside them, text and a diagram explain how to bend a horse’s body during riding, highlighting the riders leg positioning and body alignment.

Bend Your Horse’s Body

Last updated: 19th May 2026 Are you struggling with getting your horse to bend correctly? Is your horse overbending their neck or drifting out through their shoulder? Ideally, we want our horses to have…
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A split image shows two horse skeleton diagrams on the left—one with a horse invert neck and one with a horse curl neck—and two photos on the right of a rider on a dark horse in matching positions. Text reads invert or Curl?.

Does your horse invert or curl?

When your horse curls behind the vertical or won’t take the contact, it is impossible to get your horse to correctly engage their hind end or use their topline. You will find that regulating…
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A smiling person wearing a black cap and patterned black top speaks while gesturing, with two horse-riding photos on the wall behind them.

Contact and Connection Highlights

I totally understand being on a time crunch. You’ve got work, the barn & your horse, family, and a home to keep up with (add kids on top and I don’t know how you…
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A rider on a gray horse demonstrates two dressage movements: Shoulder-Fore on the left and Shoulder-In on the right, each with diagrams highlighting the dressage angles of the horse’s body.

Shoulder-In vs. Shoulder-Fore

Let’s talk about shoulder-in and shoulder-fore! Some of you might be thinking “What’s the difference?” or “When should I use one over the other?” This week’s video is here to give you some tips…
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scrambled eggs challenge

The Scrambled Eggs Challenge!

May is Dressage Rider Position Month – we will be focusing our content on Dressage Rider Position! Believe it or not, most ALL of the issues that you are having with your riding and training can…
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A side-by-side comparison of two riders on horses; left shows a horse with its head raised, right shows a horse rounder, with its neck arched and head down. Arrows highlight the rounder frame. Text reads Get your horse ROUNDER!.

Get your horse rounder!

Many riders struggle with ROUNDNESS and getting the horse supple in the neck and correctly using their back and top line.  In today’s video, we are offering suggestions to Jennifer. She writes “As you can…
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Two side-by-side images show a rider on a dark horse in an outdoor arena. The left displays the full pair; the right zooms in on the arched neck, illustrating what it means for a horse to be On The Bit. Text above reads, On the Bit?!.

On The Bit?!

How to Teach/Reintroduce the Contact: 1. Start from the ground! Whenever I have a horse that really does not understand the contact, working from the ground is the best place to start. Teach the horse to…
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Diagram showing Turn on Forehand: left side illustrates the horse’s pivot movement with dashed lines; right side shows an equestrian riding, blue dots on the horse’s hind legs, and a blue arrow indicating the turn.

Turn on the Forehand

When was the last time you did a turn on the forehand?  It’s probably a good idea to go back and revisit this exercise The turn on the forehand is a VERY IMPORTANT tool in Dressage training.  In…
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