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 The Rider Revolution Workshop series

May 6-14

Uncover the MYTHS and MISTAKES holding you back from making progress in your riding.

In this FREE Video Series, you will learn...

📽️ Video 1 - The Seat mistakes which are preventing you from progressing in your riding

📽️ Video 2 - Are longe lessons REALLY the best way to get a good seat?

📽️ Video 3 - How some seat corrections can actually make you ride WORSE

📽️ Video 4 - DIY seat lessons (we’ll explain how)

📽️ Video 5 - How to use imagery and Feldenkrais to improve your riding and seat

📽️ Video 6 - Learn even more.

LIVE Q&A webinars with Thomas and Shana Ritter support the video series.

ALL THIS PLUS, IT’S ABSOLUTELY FREE!

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May 2024:

Circle of the Aids

In May we are taking a deep dive into the Circle of the Aids. This topic is a central aspect of riding ensuring harmonious communication between horse and rider. This cycle describes the flow of information and signals that the rider gives to the horse and that the horse gives back to the rider. We will talk about how the rider’s hands communicate with the horse’s hind legs, rather than with his mouth, the role and application of driving aids and why the seat is sometimes referred to as the conductor in the orchestra of the aids. This is such a crucial topic that we are including both a Masterclass Training and a separate Q&A and Discussion. This will allow you to explore the topic in-depth and clarify your understanding by asking questions. You can look forward to a deeply educational experience in the two webinars!

At the end of the month, during our Hot Seats Session, we will review several members’ videos of themselves riding the “COTA” exercise for this month and give feedback.  Whether we review your video or you are just watching, you are sure to come away with some tips that will help you in your riding. 

We are looking forward to exploring this key topic with you.

 

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A way of training horses which honors the horse’s mind, body, and spirit equally. A way of viewing our relationship with the horse which honors the horse as a partner in the process.

A way of learning which allows you, the student to be in charge of your own learning and the hands-on training of your own horse. A way that empowers YOU as the one who “holds the reins” (figuratively and literally!!). A way of learning to ride which empowers you, the rider, with the tools to understand the why, the what, and the how.

A way of approaching dressage training which honors your unique authentic vision and choice of expression. An approach that gives you the tools you need in a way that is straight-forward and reliable. So that you can build upon that framework of tools and express what it is that dressage means to you through your work with your horse.

 
 

A SINCERE Approach

Our approach towards dressage is an optimistic way of looking at the training of the horse. It chooses to focus on the positive rather than the negative, and cultivate that good, then develop it, so that it builds upon itself.

Building upon that essential goodness within the horse, we connect to the horse compassionately and approach everything we do with the horse with empathy for the horse as a living, sentient being whose soul and intentions are inherently good. As a being who plays a vital role in his training through his willingness, cooperation, and sincerity.

By viewing the horse and our relationship with the horse in this light, our interactions are completely transformed because they come from a completely and radically altered perspective. One which doesn’t treat the horse as an object to be manipulated but as a partner with whom to collaborate.

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Ask The Right Questions
Ask The Right Questions

This week I want to touch on something that is very important in training and riding, but unfortunately, it is hardly ever addressed in lessons or in books and magazine articles. It has to do with training strategies. How do you decide how to proceed next with your horse? How do you know how to improve a movement, a transition, a turn, the rein contact, the horse’s suppleness, or any other problem you may encounter? Many good, experienced riders make these decisions purely intuitively, based on their gut feeling and their experience with many different horses, and these riders are very often correct in their decisions. But this kind of skill is unfortunately difficult to communicate and to pass on to others.

Transitions, Transitions: Simple, but not easy
Transitions, Transitions: Simple, but not easy

The way the horse performs transitions to the halt and from the halt tells us a lot about his training. Many horses and riders struggle with these transitions. Half halts often don’t go through in down transitions, so the horse inverts or curls up. The halt isn’t square, the horse is crooked, to name just some of the most common problems.

 

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FeldenFit 1, 2, and 3FeldenFit is Feldenkrais based Fitness program for Riders with Catherine McCrum with 30 days of daily 5-15 minute lessons. Catherine uses her knowledge as a Feldenkrais teacher and blends this with her background in sport and fitness to make a flowing sequence of exercises that enhance co-ordination, agility, suppleness and effortless power. FeldenFit 4 coming soon!

FeldenFit 1, 2, 3, and now 4!!!

You do not need to work HARD at your fitness to see the benefits in your riding and learning.

FeldenFit is Feldenkrais based Fitness program for Riders with Catherine McCrum with 30 days of daily 5-15 minute lessons. Catherine uses her knowledge as a Feldenkrais teacher and blends this with her background in sport and fitness to make a flowing sequence of exercises that enhance co-ordination, agility, suppleness and effortless power.

FeldenFit 30-Day Members-Only Challenges happen year-round in the FeldenFit Facebook Group. Join us and get FeldenFit for your riding!

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