Winter is a great time to work on your groundwork skills. It's too cold to spend a lot of time outside, let alone ride with all my winter gear on!
However, I still engage in different groundwork excersizes to stimulate their minds and bodies. This keeps them fit and builds our relationship.
My horses look forward to our play dates. Even if they have to work a little, it's interesting. They are appreciated, and they always feel better and more relaxed than when I started.
Did you know I have over 40 weekly challenge videos for my virtual lesson students? Some are for Straightness Training, some are a cardiovascular session, and some are just fun skills to teach your horse.
Want ideas? Join the virtual lesson clients and bot only do you get lessons, but you also have other enriching tasks to try every week!
Virtual lessons
$300 10 x 30-minute
$500 10 x 60-minute
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✨️I am happy to share the news of this beautiful upgrade. The soft tree Tudor in which I have been riding my beautiful Andalusian in has been wonderful for him, he moved very freely and with his changing body it has been very easy to adjust the saddle to fit him.
However, with his increasing power 🦄 and lift, especially in developing the passage and piaffe, I am struggling as a rider. This was causing my legs to move, my seat to bobble and interfere with my half pass and other movements.
Expressing my concern with Els, who is the local Edix dealer, and she jumped to work, getting me this fantastic upgrade. I can't express how well this saddle has helped my seat. Now, BOTH my horse and I are moving freely together!!! 💞
The Tudor is an excellent saddle and worked very well for Sonador and myself. This just helps me personally sit even more correctly.
Excited 😊 and super blessed to have a very helpful Edix representative as a neighbor ❤️
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Thank you to all the participants and organizers!
It's a pleasure to travel to these remote mountain towns to meet enthusiastic horse people eager to learn.
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Happy Tuesday!
A little half pass with El Sonador, my hand works well enough to work the double reins, so we are back in business learning to refine the work in hand skills!
Want to learn more about training for Straightness using classical dressage principles? Attend a clinic or book virtual lessons! The basics are valuable for all breed and diciplines.
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Hand injury update: Well, the horses are doing great 👍 my hand can not hold reins and a whip, so I've been working on how to communicate to them during the ground patterns. They have such patience with me and are trying hard to answer my questions from mostly a liberty feel as there is no strength or movement in three fingers. However, lightness and self carriage are my goals, and I was so happy to film our exploration into my new "hand" and techniques to communicate.
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Mr Tucker doing his weekly leg day at the gym! Keeping the old man out!
18 Years old looking 6! Go Tucker Go!
Longline optional!
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Straightness Training Camp 2024
For this 3 day intensive, ladies stayed in the Airbnb, brought horses, or used one of mine.
Focus was on understanding how to balance our horse emotionally and physically ✨️
Great discussions, amazing breakthroughs, and stunning trail rides!
What a great time it was to share my horses and my knowledge with these keen people 😊
All three ladies do virtual lessons, which have helped them progress tremendously towards their goals. However, nothing beats a few days of hands on Training to further the understanding, feel, and timing of the cues.
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Pictured here is El Sonador 6 yeat old PRE Andalusian.
I have been riding with a hand cast. So, one handed for 4 weeks, then 4 more weeks with just my thumb and cast to support my right rein. It helped improve the leg and seat communication between Sonador and myself.
Here are some moments of a regular schooling session taken this week.
Rather than take time off riding, I looked at it as an opportunity for my young horse to do refinement with one hand. He went excellent basic walk trot canter, but the lateral work was an excellent challenge for me.
I am still riding in a cast. The pins are out, but the tendons are not healed, and three fingers do not bend nor tolerate any pressure. So I will continue my summer with very light contact and really rely on my inner picture, my energy, my legs, and my seat to communicate 🙃
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8 weeks with a cast on! The groundwork has been very much a learning opportunity to have a lot less ability to use reins and focus on my position and energy to move my horses where I want them. It also really has tested the self carriage!
Shown here is Tucker, my 18 year old Morgan gelding.
*update on my hand the pins just came out, and bones are healed tendons 12 to 18 months to heal the joints, which were dislocated and tendons damaged. More opportunity to learn to be extra light with my horses!
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