Prism Dressage and Equine Services

09/30/2025

09/10/2025

Monica Theodorescu, Germany’s dressage coach tells us:
“There are a lot of riders who sit well on a horse, and you think they are quite educated riders, but a lot of them don’t know what they are doing on a horse: what aids they are giving, they are not so conscious of what they are doing or what they want to do. They are not sure what they aim for on that day. We should say, today I want to work on this, and achieve this, more suppleness on the left or the right. They just ride along and do some exercises without really having in mind – ok, diagonal and straightness: get the bending, get the outside rein, where is my inside leg?” Monica and Isabell Werth discuss a test...
https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/2021/02/briana-burgess-training-with-monic-theodorescu/

08/27/2025

Olympian Isabell Werth explains how elasticity and suppleness allow your dressage horse to do his job well and how to help him achieve these key qualities.

08/24/2025

🐴DRESSAGE SOLUTIONS🐴 Improve Rein Connection

To improve your rein connection ...

Imagine your point of contact with the bit is in your elbows, triceps and back, and that your arms, wrists and hands are just extensions of the reins. This allows the connection to be held in your body rather than your hands and allows the hands and arms to be soft.
~ Jessica Miller

🎨 Sandy Rabinowitz

08/21/2025

https://dressagetoday.com/instruction/creating-excellence-dressage-putting-it-into-practice-sue-blinks/?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwMUbN5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHkO7NgXhLT9sO2pG5ui0DZbuxOs5aJrvRASJhibsfnkFFnB2dgqx4UTWOh_l_aem_PZm_iPlJHum9hB605XeI9A

Olympian Sue Blinks shows how her multifaceted approach to dressage excellence works in teaching movements like shoulder-in and piaffe.