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Does your horse show any of these signs? If so, a poorly fitting saddle may be the cause. 1) showing any objection to being saddled 2) being “cold-backed” during mounting 3) slow to warm up or relax 4) resistance to work 5) resistance to training aids 6) hock, stifle, or obscure hind limb lameness 7) […]

Have you ever sat ringside at a competition and watched  the competitors?  Some look like they are about to throw up just before they enter the ring.  Others look cool and calm, their dog is attentive and they are working as a team.  Have you ever dreamed of being like the calm cool type while […]

The last of the Centered Riding® Basics is Grounding. Sally Swift calls this the glue that binds the other Basics together.  The roots-of-the-tree image in the book, Centered Riding, illustrate Grounding. Grounding provides supple stability in riding while lengthening provides the power. (We will leave lengthening for later. Without Grounding you can’t lengthen.) Grounding is […]

Ever wonder where your riding is going? Or perhaps it is trying to figure out how to do a new exercise or movement with your horse. You know innately that something isn’t right but “how” to fix it is beyond you. You go to riding instructors and they tell you “what” to do – “more […]

How many times have you cleaned your horse’s feet without thinking about it? You take the hoof pick and remove all the dirt making sure there are no rocks caught between the hoof, the sole and the shoe. While you were cleaning out that hoof did you ever consider what your comparable part (similar body […]

On January 25th Bruno Greber of Ashanti Farm and I gave a 3-hour demonstration at Morven Park Equestrian Center in Leesburg Virginia entitled Classical Dressage with a Technical Twist. The demonstration was attended by more than one hundred people who braved the cold to turn out for this first ever combination of instruction and technology […]