Connected Riding with Peggy Cummings'

17/03/2025

🌟For over 50 years, Peggy Cummings creator of Connected Riding®️ has helped riders worldwide find that magical feeling of being ‘in sync’ with their horse.

🪧Join Northwest Horse Fair & Expo (NWHF) March 21-23 to learn from this master teacher who has dedicated her life to promoting freedom of movement and elastic connection between horse and rider.

🎯What you’ll discover:

✔️How to achieve true connection
✔️Freedom of movement techniques
✔️The magic of elastic connection

🎟️Get your tickets online and save! https://app.fairs.com/e/9933151f43024982

PEGGY CUMMINGS WILL BE SPEAKING AT THE NORTHWEST HORSE FAIR & EXPO ~ ATTEND PEGGY’S LECTURES AND JOIN HER AT THE ARENA FOR DAYS OF WISDOM AND EDUCATION!

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Day One
Lecture
Are you helping or hindering? Learn more ways to understand your horse’s behavior for better cooperation and less frustration.

Arena
Improve every ride by preparing your horse with a few powerful and simple exercises on the ground, then feel the result under saddle.

Day Two
Lecture
The gift of feel. Improve your horsemanship and safety by experiencing contrasting sensations that you can replicate in the saddle to maximize your comfort and efficiency.

Arena
How simple self-referencing techniques can help you release tension while riding

Day Three
Lecture
Demystifying horsemanship terms in all disciplines. What do they mean, and how do they translate into training and riding.
Arena
How proper biomechanics can make your ride better. Discover the magic of synchronizing with your horse’s motion

✨This is a unique opportunity to learn proven techniques that will transform your riding and deepen your connection with your horse. ✨

11/03/2025

Riders needed for Peggy Cummings' clinics featuring Connected Riding. Please complete the clinic participation application and return as sooon as possible.
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25/02/2025

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If you are already a Member ~ Go to our website at www.connectedriding.com and click on My Account top left corner and Log in. Once logged in Click on My Membership for the 25th Call Zoom Link. Enjoy!!

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24/02/2025

🎥 Join Peggy Cummings creator of Connected Riding®️ for another informative webinar on Tuesday, February 25 at 11 AM PST

🌟Peggy will discuss Adding More Performance and Efficiency with Less Stress🌟

💫 Peggy will give her expertise and her knowledge through a presentation where she will guide you and open it up for discussions.

⁉️Not able to make the presentation, no worries you can rewatch in our media content library at your convenience.

💙 Being part of Peggy’s presentations give you the understanding of Peggy‘s depth and the work of Connected Riding.

🐴 Become a community member today to be part of this presentation.

❔How Do I Join❔

❔ How Can I Be Part of These Presentations ❔

🌎 By becoming a CR Community Member!!!

🌐 Go to our website at www.connectedriding.com

💻Click on membership and click become a Member

👏 It’s that easy!

🏷️ For only $35 a year (one year from date of purchase) you will get 5% off online store purchases, future and past zoom presentations, videos, PowerPoints, educational material and more.

🥰 Connected Riding members support Peggy’s work and the Connected Riding Community.

🎉Members can use it to enrich their lives and relationships with their horses; an online and virtual community!

🏆 Members are champions of Connected Riding they promote and spread the word about the transformation work of CR to other others

🐎 Members are novice, experienced, recreational and professional riders and lovers of horses.

💲Dues goes to supporting the School of Connected Riding.

18/02/2025

📣 Mark your calendars! The 2025 Pacific Northwest Endurance Rides (PNER) Convention & Awards Banquet is happening on February 21st & 22nd at the beautiful Eagle Crest Resort in Redmond, OR! 🏇✨

Join us for two days filled with informative talks, exciting activities, and plenty of opportunities to connect with the endurance community. Whether you’re new to the sport or a seasoned rider, this event has something for everyone!

🎙 Keynote Speakers & Talks
Gain insights from over a dozen experts, including Dr. Susan Garlinghouse, Peggy Cummings, Naomi Preston, and more. Learn about vital topics like:
• Beating the metabolic pull
• Strengthening and fueling for the season
• Recovery from injuries
• T-Touch techniques
• PEMF therapy
• Junior and FEI-focused discussions
…and so much more to take your endurance game to the next level!

🛍 Activities & Vendors
Shop at the vendor booths, participate in the large tack sale, and enjoy junior activities, yoga, and special workshops. Don’t miss out on Vendor Bingo, Karaoke, and even a Casino Night!

🏅 Awards & Banquet
Celebrate the achievements of 2024’s endurance riders at our Friday and Saturday awards ceremonies. Enjoy a delicious banquet dinner, a cash bar, and enter to win exciting prizes in the raffle!

🌟 To get you even more excited, we’ll be running a daily educational series on endurance riding leading up to the event! Whether you’re just starting out or want to refine your skills, this series will highlight key topics and showcase how attending the convention will benefit riders of all ages and experience levels.

🖥 For more details and registration, visit https://bit.ly/pner-convention-2025 or check out our event page on Facebook! Let’s make this a weekend to remember!

Tag your riding friends, share this post, and let us know if we’ll see you there! 🐴💫

16/02/2025

Peggy Cummings is presenting at the Pacific Northwest Endurance Rides PNER expo this year!
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Speaker Feature: Peggy Cummings 🌟💫

Don’t miss Peggy Cummings at the 2025 PNER Convention! The creator of Connected Riding®, Peggy will be hosting workshops for riders of all levels—including juniors—on optimizing performance through balance, biomechanics, and clear communication with your horse.

🗓️February 21–22, 2025

📍Eagle Crest Resort, Redmond, Oregon

Register now at https://bit.ly/pner-convention-2025

This is a unique opportunity to learn proven techniques that will transform your riding and deepen your connection with your horse. Space is limited—secure your spot today!

13/02/2025

04/02/2025

🤩 COME ALONG FOR THE RIDE WITH CONNECTED RIDING🎉

🌈 Connected Riding might feel foreign at first, but once the rider meets and melts into neutral posture and conquers balancing in the saddle, they will feel that they are finally mastering the meaning of Connected Riding.

🐎The goal is to transform from a rigid rider to one that dances with their horse—a natural movement for both horse and rider.

🏇Come along for the ride with Peggy Cummings and her qualified Connected Riding Instructors!

🙏🏼 Attend one of Peggy Cummings clinic, courses, online sessions, private or group lessons to learn more about Connected Riding and share the magic of her work.

👩‍🏫Reach out to a CR Instructor today and book a lesson, a clinic, a course or an online session.

👩‍💻Go to Connected Riding website www.connectedriding.com

🗓️Check out CR CALENDAR to find dates

👩‍🎓Check out CR INSTRUCTOR page to find an instructor in your area!

✈️Instructors travel and will come to you!

🧳Or travel to an Instructor!

🔥Connected Riding is offered all over the world. We have INSTRUCTORS in

✔️USA
✔️Canada
✔️Europe
✔️Germany
✔️Spain
✔️United Kingdom
💥with many traveling throughout the continents!

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28/01/2025

⭐️THE THREE PHASES OF CONNECTED RIDING⭐️

☑️ PHASE THREE 3️⃣

🐴Synchronizing is the sweet spot.

✔️ Connection, which is synchronization of movement, begins with Connected Groundwork.

✔️ This phase requires mindful leading and briefly preparing the horse on the ground before mounting. This ensures the horse is walking forward, releasing the base of the neck, and moving well in both directions.

✔️ Under saddle, the rider must be proactive, remembering to rebalance, “re-neutralize” and continue allowing movement through the body, not bracing against it.

🙏🏼 Attend one of Peggy Cummings clinic, courses, online sessions, private or group lessons to learn more about Connected Riding and share the magic of her work.

👩‍🏫Reach out to a CR Instructor today and book a lesson, a clinic, a course or an online session.

👩‍💻Go to Connected Riding website www.connectedriding.com

🗓️Check out CR CALENDAR to find dates

👩‍🎓Check out CR INSTRUCTOR page to find an instructor in your area!

✈️Instructors travel and will come to you!

🧳Or travel to an Instructor!

🔥Connected Riding is offered all over the world. We have INSTRUCTORS in

✔️USA
✔️Canada
✔️Europe
✔️Germany
✔️Spain
✔️United Kingdom
💥with many traveling throughout the continents!

26/01/2025

⭐️THE THREE PHASES OF WORK IN CONNECTED RIDING⭐️

☑️ PHASE TWO 2️⃣

🐴Teaching the Horse a Weight-Bearing Posture:

✔️ Connected Groundwork was developed by Peggy to use the principles of neutral posture for creating this posture for horses through groundwork exercises that support the functional muscle development of self-carriage in the horse.

✔️ Her comprehensive groundwork approach provides the rider a “back to sit on” that empowers the horse to carry the rider’s weight without compromise.

🙏🏼 Attend one of Peggy Cummings clinic, courses, online sessions, private or group lessons to learn more about Connected Riding and share the magic of her work.

👩‍🏫Reach out to a CR Instructor today and book a lesson, a clinic, a course or an online session.

👩‍💻Go to Connected Riding website www.connectedriding.com

🗓️Check out CR CALENDAR to find dates

👩‍🎓Check out CR INSTRUCTOR page to find an instructor in your area!

✈️Instructors travel and will come to you!

🧳Or travel to an Instructor!

🔥Conneccted Riding is offered all over the world. We have INSTRUCTORS in

✔️USA
✔️Canada
✔️Europe
✔️Germany
✔️Spain
✔️United Kingdom
💥with many traveling throughout the continents!

23/01/2025

⭐️THE THREE 3️⃣ PHASES OF WORK IN CONNECTED RIDING⭐️

☑️ PHASE ONE 1️⃣

🐴 Working with the Rider on the Ground:

✔️ Teaching riders to find the sensation and awareness alignment in their bodies (neutral posture) while sitting, standing, moving, and transferring this awareness to their daily activities.

✔️ Knowing how to reconnect and rebalance their bodies is key to rebalancing their horses under saddle!

✔️ And, being creatures of habit, we learn by practicing a new way dynamic posture by incorporating these skills into everyday life.

🙏🏼 Attend one of Peggy Cummings clinic, courses, online sessions, private or group lessons to learn more about Connected Riding and share the magic of her work.

👩‍🏫Reach out to a CR Instructor today and book a lesson, a clinic, a course or an online session.

👩‍💻Go to Connected Riding website www.connectedriding.com

🗓️Check out CR CALENDAR to find dates

👩‍🎓Check out CR INSTRUCTOR page to find an instructor in your area!

✈️Instructors travel and will come to you!

🧳Or travel to an Instructor!

🔥Conneccted Riding is offered all over the world. We have INSTRUCTORS in ✔️USA
✔️Canada
✔️Europe
✔️Germany
✔️Spain
✔️United Kingdom
💥with many traveling throughout the continents!

21/01/2025

🔥Peggy and Connected Riding Instructors utilize what is known as a “neutral pelvis position” core modality for riders to readily balance themselves while supporting their horses to rebalance at the same time.

✅ In this position, the rider’s core muscles automatically engage during movement to stabilize and rebalance the rider’s upper body.

✅ Neutral pelvis is the only posture where the rider’s extremities do not have to “hold on” to find balance. Once a rider’s body can “buoy” and rebalance freely with each stride, the horse carries the rider as live weight, allowing him to engage his hindquarters and lift his back without restriction.

✅ As riders learn to continually unlock, and sustain the freedom of movement in their own bodies, they consequently free up and maintain the flow of movement in their horse’s body.

🙏🏼 Attend one of Peggy Cummings clinic, courses, online sessions, private or group lessons to learn more about Connected Riding and share the magic of her work.

👩‍🏫Reach out to a CR Instructor today and book a lesson, a clinic, a course or an online session.

👩‍💻Go to Connected Riding website www.connectedriding.com

🗓️Check out CR CALENDAR to find dates

👩‍🎓Check out CR INSTRUCTOR page to find an instructor in your area!

✈️Instructors travel and will come to you!

🧳Or travel to an Instructor!

🔥Conneccted Riding is offered all over the world. We have INSTRUCTORS in ✔️USA
✔️Canada
✔️Europe
✔️Germany
✔️Spain
✔️United Kingdom
💥with many traveling throughout the continents!

15/01/2025

🙌 How Connected Riding Works for Both Horse and Rider 🙌

✅ It is essential to learn how to feel how different body parts move when in neutral posture, and what changes when you are not in neutral posture.

🐴 Peggy Cummings’ techniques involve learning the feeling and physical sensation of connection by riders recognizing when they are bracing against the horse’s movement and how to change it to receive and allow the movement through their bodies.

✅ This “allowing” through feel, timing, and rebalancing one’s body in motion must be developed just like any other form of dance 💃🏻 until the exercises are mastered to 💪muscle memory.

🎉 This is the point when riders realize the depth of the method! Peggy calls this “riding from the inside to the outside.”

🧭 When a rider is tense and out of balance, they brace to balance themselves becoming a “dead weight” drag against the horse’s movement. This immediately flattens the horse’s suspension, restricting freedom of motion, especially if the rider squeezes and bears downward on the back, which lessens the horse’s ability to lift, push, and move freely. Also, putting the horse “on the bit” or using gadgets (side reins, draw reins etc.) further puts the horse in a “false frame” of carriage especially since many horses are not started under saddle with the muscular development of a weight-bearing posture that allows them to carry both themselves and a rider in movement.

👩‍🏫Reach out to a CR Instructor today and book a lesson, a clinic, a course or an online session.

👩‍💻Go to Connected Riding website www.connectedriding.com

🗓️Check out CR CALENDAR to find dates

👩‍🎓Check out CR INSTRUCTOR page to find an instructor in your area!

✈️Instructors travel and will come to you!

🧳Or travel to an Instructor!

🔥Conneccted Riding is offered all over the world. We have INSTRUCTORS in ✔️USA
✔️Canada
✔️Europe
✔️Germany
✔️Spain
✔️United Kingdom
💥with many traveling throughout the continents!

13/01/2025

Connected Riding Synchronizes You with Your Horse!

🐴If you want to be one with your horse and ride in harmony, pain-free for hours, then Connected Riding is for you.

🏆Peggy Cummings, creator and founder of Connected Riding, has been teaching riders for over 50 years how to synchronize in movement with their horses.

📋Peggy has combined her lifelong observations of horses and riders with studies of biomechanics, human and equine mental disciplines, and energy techniques to devise an approach that is uniquely her own, always with the well-being of the horse in mind.

📓From years of research and experimentation, she has created a wholistic system of riding based on three modalities:

✔️Connected Riding ✔️Connected Groundwork
✔️Connected Movement

👩‍🏫Reach out to a CR Instructor today and book a lesson, a clinic, a course or an online session.

👩‍💻Go to Connected Riding website www.connectedriding.com

🗓️Check out CR CALENDAR to find dates

👩‍🎓Check out CR INSTRUCTOR page to find an instructor in your area!

✈️Instructors travel and will come to you!

🧳Or travel to an Instructor!

03/01/2025

🎉Happy New Year!! 🎊

I will be back on the road soon with my first stop in Virginia. 📍

✅Slide to access our website calendar for more details🌍

I hope that you can join me at one or all of my clinics! 😊

🍀My clinics are integrative to what riders needs are, reassurance, strengthening skills and more! I touch on all basics of Connected Riding.

🐴 I work with all types of riders; beginners, seasoned, retired ~ everyone is welcome.

🤗Clinics are open to all and I am looking forward to meeting new and past riders, so please do not hesitate in contacting our awesome organizers to book your spot or ask questions!

🕊️My hope is for everyone to experience Connected Riding to change old habits and begin new healthy ones for the New Year!

🙌 If you are unable to make one of my clinics please reach out to one of our instructors!

🔥CR instructors are always on the road so you might catch one of them in your area or better yet schedule your own exciting clinic!

🗓️Check our website for dates; they are always changing.

🎉It’s time for a fresh start for you and your horse. 🪅

✏️Reserve your spot today!!

Auditors Welcome 🤠

31/12/2024

It was another busy year and to close it out, here are a few pics from some of the places I have been this year:

I have taught in Washington State, Oregon, South Carolina, Michigan and Wisconsin in the USA. When I fly across the pond I stay very busy in Germany, Spain and the UK.
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A big thanks to Bibi Degn from Germany who has moved to southern Spain. She organized eight days of horses and rider combinations so that I could teach different concepts of Connected Riding. All the work was videoed and we will be able to use these videos for educational purposes once they are edited. We were blessed by the last-minute gift of being able to use high quality audio and video equipment. I am really looking forward to the finished products.
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I spent a few days with Robyn Hood and Mandy Pretty up in Canada.. These two very busy gals are such a support and inspiration to me and I treasure their advice and friendship. What a treat to reconnect!
The out of the box activities that I get to do continue to inspire me and I see the far reaching effect of Connected Movement. I co-taught a day workshop for Saddle Fitters in the UK with Sara Udal of Connect Equine Saddles. She is doing amazing work educating and raising awareness about saddle fit and the saddles allow the riders to sit in neutral posture. I also work with people that need help walking running or doing another sport such as biking, skiing. This work is so rewarding as it all begins with the alignment of the human body to create ease in movement.
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The joy of teaching and seeing returning students and meeting new ones is always inspiring to me. What is it that makes me pack my bags and travel?? Its to teach someone to recognize what bracing and rigidity does to inhibit movement, to feel the difference Neutral posture allows, and learn to find it again if they lose it. In addition, the Groundwork that these students do with their horses to loosen their bracing patterns and improve their ability to carry weight efficiently is rewarding to witness.

25/12/2024

I am grateful to all of you who have embraced learning this body of work and for the difference it is making to you and your horses. A special thanks to all the instructors and organizers and assistants and volutneers as you are indeed “critical spokes of the wheel”.


My special thanks to these ladies
Stephanie Jacobson my administrative assistant and she wears many hats.
Stephenie Willius who is in charge of the USA store and ordering all the product.
Trudy Affleck who is in charge of the CR Store in the UK and Elke Granzin in Germany.


I am really glad to be home at this time and through January. I relish being able to spend more time with my family and my wonderful dog Ozzie.


Happy Holidays to you all and I look forward to more adventures with you in the coming year!!

Peggy Cummings Founder of Connected Riding

23/12/2024