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Riding in Groups: Building Confidence
December 4, 2016 @ 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm
$135.00
Riding in Groups: Building Confidence Workshop
Learn to help your horse be confident and focused on you while riding in groups of other horses. This will be a great workshop especially with having like minded people to help support you.
A Series of Workshops to choose from. The more you attend, the more you learn, the more you save.
One workshop $135
Sign up for 3 and receive a 5% discount off total
Sign up for 4 to 6 and receive a 10% discount off total
Sign up for 7 or more and receive a 15% discount off total
Refund Policy:
If you miss a workshop that you signed up for there is not refund. However you can schedule a 1-1/2 hour private lesson.
Audit $25
December 18, 2016…..Arena Dynamics
Learn how to ride in the precision pen and/or the dressage arena. Learn how to ride patterns, and why the Parelli Patterns are so powerful for precision and responsibility.
January 8, 2017…..Rhythm and Activity
Tempo, rhythm , relaxation—they all come together. Learn foot falls, how to get in time with the horse. Learn feel so rider and horse can be together.
January 22, 2017…..Soft Feel and Contact
Time to offer your horse a conversation in their mouth. Learn about frame; timing of when to give, when to take, when to hold; how to keep a discussion with your horse—without confusing them.
February 5, 2017…..Straightness and Why
Horses and riders are both crooked, a fact. To create balance and power a horse needs to learn how to be straight. This workshop will help you understand how the horse is crooked, why, and what our bodies are doing to exacerbate the situation or help the horse. Straight horses physically last longer and have less soundness problems.
February 19, 2017…..Bending and Flexion
To be straight on a circle you have to be able to flex and bend. Both of these also help create relaxation. Learn how to take your neutral lateral flexion into motion while riding your horse. Supple Rein.
March 12, 2017…..Circles
Can you ride an equal circle? Or do your circles look like a Potato? Are you pulling your horse in the circle with your inside rein? Learn to control the shoulders, and do carving turns.
March 26, 2017…..Lateral Work I
Introduction to turn on the forehand, simple legs yields, leg yield on the rail, leg yield tail to the rail, and shoulders in. The better your horse goes sideways and backwards the better it does everything else. Let’s get your Yields GREAT!!
April 9, 2017…..Lateral Work II
Eighth backups, Haunches In, Renvers, Half Pass. Take your Yields to the next level. The better your horse goes sideways and backwards the better they do everything else.
April 16, 2017…..Transitions: Gaits within Gaits
Let’s take your gaits to the next level. Master your Yo-Yo Game in the saddle with contact. Introduce collection so that you can have Walk to Canter transitions.