Riding with Passion - Partnership

Riding with Passion takes the movement and awareness achieved from Ground Work and Lunging and In-Hand and applies it while under saddle. By breaking down a traditional and complex, rider-dominated process to a level that your brain can absorb and understand, you will be able to rebuild a technical body framework to emulate, to anticipate, to feel and to flow with the horse’s movement - creating a true partnership.

You will practice sensing and following the horse’s cues to create guiding, flexible, fluid movements that are partly physical and partly sensual. This will guide you and your horse in a mutual dance where both partners make collective choices to strengthen your consensual leadership developed earlier. Your teamwork will improve in any venue from introductory lessons, to pleasure riding or any form of competition.

Upon completing Riding with Passion you will have developed a renewed level of self-confidence and skill to match your horse’s movements with your own. By merging body mechanics you will have achieved a better ride with a more willing equine partner. In addition, the tools and techniques to identify and resolve on-going riding anxieties and stresses will be clearer.

Riding with Passion Includes:

•  Applying Groundwork, Lunging and In-Hand techniques while under saddle, to

•  Understand mutual body dynamics and cues, to

•  Match the horse’s movements to your own, thereby

•  Developing collective choices, to

•  Strengthen consensual leadership and teamwork

•  Creating flow, in unison, for a true riding partnership