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For The Horse by Chris Adderson https://forthehorse.com/ride-your-horse-in-flow-with-confidence
Come Dance With Me!

Chris's online program, For The Horse Harmony, offers quality education for riders and their horses so they can ride with ease, confidence and meaning through connection.

Your proficiency helps the horse to interpret you better,rather than training the horse.
25/09/2024

Your proficiency helps the horse to interpret you better,
rather than training the horse.

The link to throughness and lightness is the actions your body creates
25/09/2024

The link to throughness and lightness is the actions your body creates

The more we can become, the more we can effectively touch our horse.
24/09/2024

The more we can become, the more we can effectively touch our horse.

Just as we might play a piece of music,we can play a dressage movement
24/09/2024

Just as we might
play a piece of music,
we can
play a dressage movement

Riding a horse is beautifully capturing our passion, exploration of precision movement, and intricate communication.
23/09/2024

Riding a horse is beautifully capturing our passion, exploration of precision movement, and intricate communication.

Movement is living, functional movement is thriving
23/09/2024

Movement is living, functional movement is thriving

Your body and your horse's body are a work of art!
22/09/2024

Your body and your horse's body are a work of art!

You are not meant to control your horse but simply to feel the horse’s energy
22/09/2024

You are not meant to control your horse but simply to feel the horse’s energy

Good riding means changing the pattern and eliminating the need for the obedience to the aids.-Chris Adderson, For The H...
21/09/2024

Good riding means changing the pattern and eliminating the need for the obedience to the aids.
-Chris Adderson, For The Horse

Give your horse a chance to figure it out, Get out of your horse's way, Keep up your horse's interest.-Chris Adderson, F...
21/09/2024

Give your horse a chance to figure it out, Get out of your horse's way, Keep up your horse's interest.
-Chris Adderson, For The Horse

Horses, tensegrity, challenges, and a new paradigm!I'd like to answer a question that I receive frequently... how do I f...
20/09/2024

Horses, tensegrity, challenges, and a new paradigm!

I'd like to answer a question that I receive frequently... how do I find you and what do you teach?

My holistic approach to horsemanship and riding has come from rehabilitating hundreds of horses, professional dancing, and being a professional horsewoman for the past 30 years. It’s so forward-thinking and moving that you won’t be able to find my approach anywhere else!

It is life-changing and it is hard, and it is controversial because of steadfast belief systems.

I am public with my online program. I developed my program because I realized the tremendous gap between science, learning, and evidence-based presentations and the way traditional riding is taught.

I teach riders how to apply the principles of tensegrity and biomechanics within their own bodies and then apply them to help their horses.

It’s always excellent to find education, but unless you know how to take that knowledge, put it into practice and experience, and not take decades, it will probably sit on the shelf and not get you where you want to go with your horse.

We not only need to open our hearts and minds, but we need to open our bodies. We need to open our movement.

We desperately need to move forward to functional patterns rather than dysfunctional habits. And this goes for riders' bodies and horses' bodies.

The mind and the heart come first and then explore a very intense knowledge and precision practice of how your body moves and how your horse’s body moves.

This is the work that I do.

Dealing with an upset horse can be very discouraging, especially when a rider just doesn't know what to do to help the s...
20/09/2024

Dealing with an upset horse can be very discouraging, especially when a rider just doesn't know what to do to help the situation.

And, there can be many reasons why a horse gets upset too.

One of those reasons is that the activity at hand is challenging for your horse. By challenging I mean not to overface the horse with something that is just not possible, or not learned yet...but rather a pattern that a horse may have that is slowing down progress.

In this article, I'm going to show you one way to approach this.

So what do some horses find challenging?...CLICK👇TO READ AND WATCH MORE👇

Dealing with an upset horse can be very discouraging, especially when a rider just doesn't know what to do to help the situation. And, there can be many reasons why a […]

Feel is always there…it exists whether you tap into it or not💃🐴
19/09/2024

Feel is always there…it exists whether you tap into it or not💃🐴

Expression in the horse is not just in the face but the whole body. -Chris Adderson, For The Horse
18/09/2024

Expression in the horse is not just in the face but the whole body.
-Chris Adderson, For The Horse

Do it cheaper.
18/09/2024

Do it cheaper.

This happened to my mare the other day!Horses!!😬
18/09/2024

This happened to my mare the other day!

Horses!!😬

Sometimes this can feel like a daunting task...keeping our horses sound and healthy.There is just so much that can go wr...
17/09/2024

Sometimes this can feel like a daunting task...keeping our horses sound and healthy.

There is just so much that can go wrong.

We're dealing with an animal who has biological, physical, mental, emotional, spiritual considerations; so much that we're dealing with on a daily basis.

So much so that many riders get overwhelmed and their love for the horse that they started out with, gets clouded and maybe even lost.

I'm going to share with you a few tips that have helped me with numerous horses, and myself.

They'll help you to keep riding longer, to keep our horses moving well, to keep them sound, and to keep them healthy...CLICK👇TO READ AND WATCH MORE👇

Sometimes this can feel like a daunting task...keeping our horses sound and healthy. There is just so much that can go wrong. We're dealing with an animal who has biological, physical, mental, […]

Build on turning loose - you never want to lose that.-Ray Hunt
17/09/2024

Build on turning loose - you never want to lose that.
-Ray Hunt

Better to wait than force things to happen. -Chris Adderson, For The Horse
16/09/2024

Better to wait than force things to happen.
-Chris Adderson, For The Horse

How do I maintain stamina when I'm riding?This was a question that came in from one of my students. She was enjoying rid...
16/09/2024

How do I maintain stamina when I'm riding?

This was a question that came in from one of my students. She was enjoying riding her horse and making great progress. But, there was a 'problem' when she started trotting - she found that she lost stamina quite quickly.

A lot of the time when we have a 'problem', it's not the problem that we thought it was, it's something completely different.

Logical conclusions around why we are losing stamina might be; I'm not fit enough, I'm getting older, I need to push harder...

When actually, we need to LET GO...CLICK👇TO READ AND WATCH MORE👇

How do I maintain stamina when I'm riding? This was a question that came in from one of my students. She was enjoying riding her horse and making great progress. But, […]

Ask your horse without defense. -Chris Adderson, For The Horse
15/09/2024

Ask your horse without defense.
-Chris Adderson, For The Horse

And then the pony followed me home.
15/09/2024

And then the pony followed me home.

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This gelding is 27 years old and still looking this beautiful!! #forthehorse #forthehorseharmony #onlinedressage #chrisadderson

Very resourceful scratching technique! #harmonyforthehorse #forthehorse #forthehorseharmony #onlinedressage

Every evening, I sit and enjoy horse munching as the horses eat their dinner beside me. Tonight, I was gifted with an added treat. Listen to hear what I heard.

Calling all seekers of deep connection and fell with your horse ~ get profound change! Join us for a transformative experience with your horse. Our flagship program, For The Horse Harmony, is opening for applications with a start date of September 15, 2024! Sign up by emailing: [email protected]

Let’s look at my horse and I riding the Half Pass! Embodiment and mirroring are forms of communication that horses use naturally and easily. They make instinctive sense to the horse, and require only awareness and refinement. In this short video clip, I am inviting my horse to move from a renvers (haunches-out) to a half-pass by making changes in my body, without changing the spiral of my spine or the alignment of my shoulders and hips. I call this communication, from my body to hers, “embodiment”. Can you tell when I make the change of my center of mass? Can you see ZJ mirror me by stepping under my center of mass, to perform a half-pass? Notice that our communication did not require traditional “aids” from my legs or the reins. The reins and my legs simply reflect my spinal spiral and continue to softly support bend while ZJ follows my center of mass sideways. My program helps people become more aware of what they are “saying” with their bodies, and more able to embody the message that they wish to send, so that their horses can easily join them in a joyful, flowing dance. #forthehorseharmony #classicalhorsemanship #onlinedressage #chrisadderson

Watch how I ride a Shoulder In…
Watch how I ride a Shoulder In…

In this short video clip, I am inviting my horse to perform a shoulder-in by actively performing the movement with my own body. I call this communication, from my body to hers, “embodiment”. Can you see me spiral my spine from the base upwards, so that my shoulders turn more to the inside? Can you see ZJ mirror my movements, to perform a shoulder-in? Notice that our communication did not require traditional “aids” from my legs or the reins. The reins and my legs reflect the movement of my spinal spiral and continue to softly guide ZJ, while she mirror my movement and aligns her shoulder and hips with mine, albeit in a horizontal plane. Embodiment and mirroring are forms of communication that horses use naturally and easily. They make instinctive sense to the horse, and require only awareness and refinement. My program helps people become more aware of what they are “saying” with their bodies, and more able to embody the message that they wish to send, so that their horses can easily join them in a joyful, flowing dance.

Lateral Movements
Lateral Movements

When performing lateral movements, we need to prepare the entirety of the body for the movement. In this video, can you see how I align my spine and invite my horse to do the same? #forthehorseharmony #forthehorse

Dasher, my Mini, asking for attention.

Here's an update on Poppy: He is feeling better and wants to move more, but he can't because of the pain. His body is responding to medicine, treatments, and care, and I’m grateful for that. My primary concern at this point is whether he can endure the horrific conditions long enough for his body to heal, and we can start walking him.

Horrific cellulitis 💔 Breaks my heart to see my gelding suffering from this.

Discover How to Improve Your Seat
Discover How to Improve Your Seat

Discover How to Improve Your Seat

Find the Clarity . . . . . . . #horsetraining #horsetrainingvideos #horsemanship #horsetrainingti
Find the Clarity . . . . . . . #horsetraining #horsetrainingvideos #horsemanship #horsetrainingti

Find the Clarity . . . . . . . #horsetraining #horsetrainingvideos #horsemanship #horsetrainingtips #horses #dressage #classicaldressage #dressagelessonsonline #anxioushorse #riding #equestrian #horse #lunging #traininghorses

Intention is the key . . . . . . . #horsetraining #horsetrainingvideos #horsemanship #horsetrainin
Intention is the key . . . . . . . #horsetraining #horsetrainingvideos #horsemanship #horsetrainin

Intention is the key . . . . . . . #horsetraining #horsetrainingvideos #horsemanship #horsetrainingtips #horses #dressage #classicaldressage #dressagelessonsonline #anxioushorse #riding #equestrian #horse #lunging #traininghorses

The Most Valuable Skill Is To Know How To Process #horsetraining #horsetrainingvideos #horsemansh
The Most Valuable Skill Is To Know How To Process #horsetraining #horsetrainingvideos #horsemansh

The Most Valuable Skill Is To Know How To Process #horsetraining #horsetrainingvideos #horsemanship #horsetrainingtips #horses #dressage #classicaldressage #dressagelessonsonline #anxioushorse #riding #equestrian #horse #lunging #traininghorses

The Most Valuable Skill Is Mindset . . . . . . #horsetraining #horsetrainingvideos #horsemanshi
The Most Valuable Skill Is Mindset . . . . . . #horsetraining #horsetrainingvideos #horsemanshi

The Most Valuable Skill Is Mindset . . . . . . #horsetraining #horsetrainingvideos #horsemanship #horsetrainingtips #horses #dressage #classicaldressage #dressagelessonsonline #anxioushorse #riding #equestrian #horse #lunging #traininghorses

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