Glenwood Stables

17/11/2025

🐴 DRESSAGE SOLUTIONS!🐴 Create a Better Back-to-Front Connection

To create a better connection from the horse’s hind legs to the rider’s hands …

Imagine the energy coming from the push of the horse’s hind legs, through your arms and into the reins so that they feel like broomsticks. The energy connects the horse, and the “broomsticks” enable you to direct the horse’s neck up or down into the desired outline and prevent the horse from dropping behind the bit or getting short in the neck.
— Jackie Kinney

🎨 Sandy Rabinowitz

16/11/2025

Chronic tension reduces your ability to follow your horse's motion. Learn how to eliminate stiffness and encourage your muscles to work in harmony for confidence, calmness and balance in the saddle.

16/11/2025

Voice aids are to be allowed in dressage in what has been welcomed as a 'positive step' for the sport. Read more below

21/10/2025

🐴DRESSAGE SOLUTIONS!🐴 To Help You Sit the Trot

To help you sit the trot better …

Imagine that your body from hip to ankle is a giant coil that opens and closes, keeping your seat in the saddle and in sync with the horse’s movement.
— Linda Schultz

🎨 Sandy Rabinowitz

13/10/2025

10/10/2025

Straight doesn't just mean straight...

Just another bit of dressage terminology that can be misinterpreted due to its literal meaning. 😅

Illustration created and copyrighted by How To Dressage.

30/09/2025

26/09/2025

Equestrian biomechanics expert Stephany Fish Crossman explains how small position changes and body awareness can improve your horse's performance.

22/09/2025

04/09/2025

Learn the secret of collection with the late Franz Kukuk:“Only horses that trust, and horses that bounce, that are very supple and loose in their neck can do this work. If you try to force the horse with the rein in front then you break the whole movement over the back into the hand. Only when you have that bounce and freedom, can you start a proper piaffe/passage program and it won’t turn into a really tense, forced fight.” https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/2021/08/working-under-saddle-with-herr-kukuk/

28/08/2025

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.