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Practical exercises that weave into your day that enhance your riding, movement, health and ease pain.

Getting to the root cause of your riding habits and problems not just the symptoms
Online courses, movement classes, rider & horse movement assessments Empowering you to become the expert of your body and gain a greater understanding of the horse's.

30/06/2025

Listening and reacting in real time, being so in tune, it becomes a quiet conversation through your body and with your horse.

The journey there can bring many experiences:

🐎 Throw yourself into a transition or movement too soon (nearly losing your teeth or getting minor whiplash on the way).
🐢 Wait too long, miss the moment, and get hauled through it, anyway.
😶 Can’t decide, freeze, hold your breath, and hope for the best.

Here’s something to consider:

“You’re not working on the horse. You’re working on yourself.” — Ray Hunt
“The fundamentals, the basics. You can never know them enough.” — Mark Rashid
“More focus on the basics — that’s the solution at every level.” — Hubertus Schmidt

The basics in a rider’s body often hold them back, at every level as well. From big riding issues to the most subtle challenges.

I know many riders feel short on time, unmotivated, or uneasy about traditional off-horse exercises.

However, here’s a different approach for you:
🔹 Build body awareness (your rider superpower)
🔹 Improve your alignment while doing everyday things
🔹 Develop connection + empowered self-care
🔹 Create subconscious habits that support faster, smoother progress

AND

🧠 Clearer proprioception/feel
🦴 Ribcage stability – Take the pressure off your lower back, Help that raised shoulder.
🧘‍♀️ Pelvis that moves with the horse
💪 Stronger hips, hamstrings, and core
🦶 Stronger feet and ankles – Stay grounded in the stirrups.
💨 Tension relief in neck and shoulders
🌿 Better alignment off the horse – Feel more upright, looser, and supported in everyday movement.

These benefits don’t just improve your riding —they restore your body’s foundations.

✨ That’s exactly what I do in The Aligned Rider online course.

It helps you restore the basics that so many riding issues trace back to and makes it fit into your real life.

But enrolment closes tonight at 11pm UK time!

Write “Aligned” below if you’d like the course info and your spot 👇

Photo credit: Sandy Rabinowitz/dressage today

19/06/2025

👀 Look at this drawing differently.

Focus on the rest of the body around the bowl.

It shows beautifully how it’s not just the goldfish bowl (pelvis) moving in isolation — the whole body adapts.

You come to the saddle with postural patterns that can pull your pelvis in many directions.

But is it really your seat that’s the problem?

Everything above and below the seat affects the seat.

For example, your rib cage or shoulders could be pulling your seat in different directions. Even stiffness in your ankle might cause you to sit to one side.

Many riders struggle with certain habits or problems in the saddle —not because they’re the cause, but because they’re the result. The end point of a longer chain of postural adaptations.

If you’d like actionable ways to:

✔Become more in tune with and control of your hips

✔Strengthen and support your hips naturally

✔Use more of your body in everyday movement(which takes little or no extra time)

…and better understand how the rest of your body influences your hips.

👉 My online course The Aligned Rider is made for exactly that.Comment “ALIGN” below and I’ll send you the info link.⬇

Illustration by Sandy Rabinowitz (Dressage Today)

08/06/2025

⛓ It’s not visual perfection, it’s connection throughout your body that matters. And body awareness, so you can feel what’s really going on.

Riders come in all shapes and sizes. I’ve worked with many who felt defeated because they didn’t fit the stereotypical rider’s conformation.

🏇 I’ve also worked with many injured riders and the problems that they brought to their riding and life.

Your daily habits shape your posture. Postural changes can lead to aches, stiffness, and restriction, from the extra stress being placed in certain areas. And can bring a tendency towards certain riding problems and difficulties.

A rider’s posture directly affects how their weight is transferred to the horse, which can affect your horse’s movement options.

Traditional postural corrections involve holding yourself in fixed positions and displacing body parts. But that’s not sustainable and can actually be harmful over time.

Instead, restoring your natural alignment, which is where your parts need to be to work together and correctly, creates strong, connected foundations.

That gives you a more saddle-ready body and helps your body in your everyday life!

🌟 The Aligned Rider 🌟 My online course is now open!

Designed to help you restore your natural alignment. Enhance your body and riding skills. Reduce aches & stiffness and improve your connection with your horse

⏱ Takes little or no extra time to sprinkle it into your day!

🗓 Enrollment open until 15th June!

Write ALIGNED below to receive the course information 👇

📸 Photo credit: Sandy Rabinowitz / Dressage Today

25/05/2025

🏇 The weight aid, it’s more than just your seat. Every part of your body, above and below, influences your seat. You’re always the sum of your parts.

Imagine that slight tilt of the head from a tense jaw or staring at a computer screen. Stiff ankles, that shoulder that rises, tight hips.

🐎 These postural changes affect the way our weight distributes through the saddle. And where the horse can move and how their posture develops.

As your body is being pulled and pushed and falls in different directions.

Even subtle changes can block the horse’s movement, create wear and tear in your own joints, and affect your sense of feel.

I love this drawing as it shows the rider’s body as an aligned barber’s pole, rotating around the spine. Think circles, lateral work, jumping a course or even looking over your shoulder out hacking.

Now imagine that pole leaning like the Tower of Pisa… How that would change the way the rider and horse could use their body and the way the weight is distributed through the saddle.

If you think as your body like building blocks working together. This isn’t about creating the ‘perfect’ picture. It’s about connection, your parts working together as a whole.

Just like the horse building our foundations, our alignment is very important to progress as a rider and it also brings huge benefits in your daily life.

After years of multiple injuries, I restored my alignment, which began a pathway to success in being able to do things I hadn’t been able to for years. And it takes very little time to fit into your day!

If this resonates, my course, The Aligned Rider, is about to reopen soon.

Write “ALIGNED” below to join the waitlist to get course infomation and be first to know when it opens.👇

No pressure, just information.

🎨Illustration by Sandy Rabinowitz/Dressage Today

21/05/2025

😖 Knee pain, stiffness, and restriction when you ride? Maybe you grip with your knees or find they flap around a little.

You probably never considered the way your knees track and how this affects their function, their movement, and the amount of wear and tear placed upon them.

Your body works as a whole and so, for example, when your knees have tracking issues, this directly impacts your hips. And it really shows up in many ways when you ride.

Often, age is the no.1 reason people believe they have knee problems, when actually it’s not their age, it’s the way they use their body.

Just like the horse, how we build our foundations matters. It helps you:

✔️Ride with an adaptable position that moves with your horse

✔️Feel more in tune with your body by increasing your sense of feel

✔️Reduce wear and tear on your joints

✔️Keep riding longer by moving better

✔️Enhance your health as your external alignment affect your internal body.

✔️Benefits your horse too from your improved alignment when your ride

💡 This reel is a snippet from my online course, "The Aligned Rider". It’s full of simple, doable strategies in and out of the saddle to restore your body natural alignment. With no complicated routines and takes little or no extra time.

If you’re curious and want to take a look when it opens again soon, just drop ALIGN below and I’ll let you know when the course opens again. No pressure, just information. ⬇

15/05/2025

Riders come in all shapes and sizes and many carry injuries, tension, or stiffness.But riding isn’t about holding a visually perfect position or having “ideal” riding conformation.

✨ It’s not about perfection, it’s about connection when riding!

🏇 The way you sit and use your body in the saddle dictates your horse’s movement options and over time, this influences how their body develops, and their ability to perform certain movements, and can potentially lead to injury.

When you improve the way your parts can work together, that brings a much more adaptable, controlled and balanced position, making you a better load to carry and improving your riding naturally.You’re bringing a body to the saddle that’s ready for the saddle.

I often heard riders joke about they take care of their horse, but not themselves. It’s really important we as riders take care of ourselves as we have such a big effect on the horse’s movement, development and health.

That’s why I created The Aligned Rider online course together to help your riding position, deepening the connections through your body and with your horse. While helping your body in daily life, and your horse benefits, too. And it takes little to no time to sprinkle into your day.

💌If this speaks to you, and you would like a spot on the waitlist. There’s no pressure, just be the first to know when doors open.

Write ALIGN below👇

Illustration by Sandy Rabinowitz/Dressage Today

12/09/2024

🏇 Postural changes can silently creep up on us.

Until one day you notice

😬 Certain movements are becoming difficult

😖 Aches and pains are creeping in

😬 Stiff joints

And this really shows up when we ride. Changes in posture pull, push and make your body fall in different directions. You can be literally fighting against your own body when you ride!

💻 But you have to work! Perhaps ignoring it, thinking you can’t do anything, or believe you don’t have the time or the motivation in your busy life.

👎 You might have tried one of the many marketed “cure” supports. Which makes things weaker in the long run.

✅ But it doesn’t have to take long to sprinkle the movement your body needs into your day! No need to allot one time slot in your day!

There is one day left now to get my exclusive double bundle of my two signature courses—The Aligned Rider (your framework to getting the riding position you want) and Screen Time to Saddle Time (Restore the office lifestyle affects on your body and riding)—at 33% off.

My courses are packed with easy-to-follow exercises and tips that fit seamlessly into your day—taking little or time! 🐎💪

Start transforming how you ride, move, and connect with your horse!

Write the word ONE below for details⬇️

10/09/2024

🤔 Your riding problems and corrections have you ever thought about the origins?

🏇 We spend a lot of time trying to correct ourselves and develop a balanced riding position and feel in the saddle.

But very little on the ground. Improving your movement habits off the horse could drastically speed up your riding progress—and help your horse, too!

Your daily movement (when you're moving around anyway!) could be improving your riding and helping your body!

💻 Certain professions lead to stereotypical postural changes. Which really shows up when we ride!

Many riders believe there’s nothing they can do about it—but you don’t have to live with those aches, pains, stiffness, and restrictions!

👋 Are you an equestrian who works online?

⏳ Just 3 days left to grab my double course bundle offer with 33% off! Don’t miss out on "The Aligned Rider" and "Screen Time to Saddle Time", designed to transform your riding, body, and connection with your horse. This is your chance to elevate your skills, reduce aches, and ride with more confidence. Time’s running out—secure your spot today!

Write the word NOW below for my offer information.⬇

07/09/2024

Hip tension, stiffness, and weakness, displays in many forms;

👉 Body control,

👉 Balance issues,

👉 Body awareness.

😫 That bit of stiffness, ache or weakness you felt in your everyday life. Is highlighted in the saddle, leading to your tendency towards certain riding corrections or difficulties.

Your body just doesn’t seem to do what you're asking of it?

🪑 Computer work and driving, involves lots of stillness in the same positions. And our posture changes into these repetitious positions.

There are 6 days left to get your spot in my exclusive double bundle of my signature courses *The Aligned Rider* and *Screen Time to Saddle Time with 33% off.

🌟 “The Aligned Rider” – Elevate your riding position and be more connected with your horse. Enhance balance, body awareness, and control.

🌟 “Screen Time to Saddle Time” – Address the negative impacts of long hours at your desk, on your body and riding.

Ride and move better, live and work happier!

Write the word OFFER below for the courses information⬇

04/09/2024

🏇 Struggling with riding position problems and difficulties? But are you’re battling against the symptoms, not the root cause?

⛓ Which is understandable, as they are often the most visual cue. And often the end of a pattern of change.

There is always a cause and effect running through the body. As it works in patterns, not parts!

🏇 Attempting to hold together a position to align with a visual goal?

Want to connect more through your body and with your horse with improved balance, and feel?

Are you an equestrian with computer-related posture issues also?

Exercises and tips from “The Aligned Rider” and “Screen Time to Saddle Time” are designed to effortlessly fit into your daily routine, making a lasting impact on your riding and overall well-being. This double bundle is here to help you make real, meaningful progress—don’t miss out on this limited-time (9 days) opportunity!

Write the word COURSES below for the course information⬇

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