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Refined Riding Make real riding progress. Move better. Feel more. Ease pain. Rider-focused movement & exercises that blend into your real life.

Overcome habits holding your riding back & help your horse
🎥 Online courses 💻 Movement classes 🏇 Rider & horse assessments Empowering you to become the expert of your body and gain a greater understanding of the horse's.

💻 Think you can’t do anything about your computer posture and aches and pains?Or are you tying this to your age?Habits c...
26/08/2025

💻 Think you can’t do anything about your computer posture and aches and pains?
Or are you tying this to your age?

Habits creep in… off the horse and into the saddle.
Every hour, you stand, move,carry, or sit a certain way → your body adapts.
And so:

❌️ One side can feel stronger

❌️ You collapse one hip

❌️ Your horse feels “crooked” under you

❌️ Your core feels weak

❌️ Your body won't do what you're asking it to!

The good news? Your body is highly changeable.
Using life’s little moments in your day = big shifts in the saddle and life.
And confidence in your riding, balance, freedom in your movement, and energy in your day!

🏇 Do you want to ride and move better, live and work happier?

⚡ My Screen Time to Saddle Time online course shows you how.

Comment COURSE below for the link.

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Feel - knowing where your body is in space and time (proprioception) can be a diva. When you correct something, it can ...
22/08/2025

Feel - knowing where your body is in space and time (proprioception) can be a diva.

When you correct something, it can feel like that part of your body is in outer space.

You try and try to connect with an area, but it just feels so odd and difficult to you.

This can apply to subtle and bigger corrections at any level if riding.

🔍 Why does this happen, and what is it telling us?

It highlights the areas you're not connected to through their lack of use in your everyday life.

Which is really highlighted and can come as a real shock when you ride!

Injuries that haven't been fully rehabilitated are also a factor in this.

This is one aspect my work covers connecting you with your parts. Your riding habits aren't by chance!

We've all been there in our riding journey. Tell me about your experiences with this👇


The neck and its role in your horse’s health. There are so many structures that are involved in the horse’s health that ...
09/08/2025

The neck and its role in your horse’s health.

There are so many structures that are involved in the horse’s health that get crushed by forced riding practices.

Forcing and restricting the horse’s neck causes compression on the:

🐴Major arteries and veins
🐴Trachea
🐴Oesophagus

And many more

As horses seem to have ever more increasing health problems.

Think about the repetitive stress vital health organs of respiration, digestion and circulation are receiving when the neck is forced into an outline.

Both ourselves and the horse have a natural internal and external alignment. Our parts require a certain amount of space to work correctly and together.

Imagine trying to go for a walk or run and forcing your neck into a tense, rigid position.

I once attended 4 day training course solely on human neck anatomy. And it highlighted to me how much health is housed in a person’s neck. There are so many structures in the neck that affect our health.

Forced training practices aren’t just causing premature wear and tear of the horse’s joints and soft tissue injuries. It’s also affecting their health!

Drop a comment below with your thoughts⬇

Credits: Illustration by Sandy Rabinowitz/ Dressage Today

One IMPORTANT tip to help your horseThe necks position and its impact on the rest of the body are often not considered. ...
19/07/2025

One IMPORTANT tip to help your horse

The necks position and its impact on the rest of the body are often not considered.

A TENSE NECK =
❌Biomechanically, the back HAS TO tighten up in response to the neck.
❌The hind limbs have to move slightly outwards around the tension in the body.

The whole body’s movement alters from restriction in the neck.
This affects everything — posture, balance, soundness.

Your horse also needs the opportunity to move in a variety of frames.

Relaxation of the neck is very important. Everything in the body interlinks and works together like the greatest display of teamwork if allowed!

Many trainers chase a ‘perfect visual frame’ but without true relaxation, and connection it’s just a held shape, not functional movement. Which often leads to pain and injury.

The horse needs the gradual building of connections through their body.

There is a big difference between a horse working comfortably and functionally and being held in a frame.

Imagine being made to train in a posture you weren’t ready for — painful, an injury waiting to happen!

Prioritize RELAXATION through your horse's neck. It’s so important for the longevity of the horse.

📌 Want to improve your own and your horse’s movement?

Check out my online courses + follow me for practical insights👇

Credits: Illustration by Sandy Rabinowitz.

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