“Only a rider in the correct position can give the correct aids.” The number one thing YOU can focus on and correct if you want to improve your riding is your position. The good news is that you don’t have to buy a new fancy horse to work on your position and going into winter is the perfect time to work on and correct your bad riding habits.
Do you have trouble sitting the trot? Do you struggle to canter your horse? Are you crooked in the saddle? Are your hands unsteady? Do you lock up your hips in the lateral work? Do you want to become a more effective rider? Do you want to have a better seat? If yes, this course is for you!!
This will be an intense 6 weeks of work on correcting and perfecting your riding position! You can expect to have some "light bulb moments," struggle to fix bad habits, learn specific ground exercises to improve your riding, and work through the material with a supportive community of riders (and you instructor of course 😁) in the private Facebook group!
This is a 6 week course and each week new videos, worksheets, and exercises will get released.
Week 1: Riding Position Basics
Week 2: The Seat
Week 3: The Legs
Week 4: The Hands, Arms, and Shoulders
Week 5: Circles, Turns, and Lateral Work
Week 6: Asymmetric Riders and Final Wrap up
If you’re dedicated to improving your riding position this is the course for you! The course is designed to explain exactly how to move your body with the horse and effect your horse from the saddle. It also includes unmounted exercises to specifically strengthen and activate the muscles that are needed for riding. It is essential to exercise, strengthen, straighten, and stretch your body before your ride or on days you don't ride so that when you do get on, your body is ready to RIDE!!!
Sign up now!! Course Starts November 1st! Why wait...?
Your Instructor
As a dressage trainer, my goal is to make good training accessible to everyone who is interested in learning. I want to help YOU "learn, to love your ride!"
~ Amelia
Amelia is passionate about sharing her knowledge of riding, horses and dressage. She has trained numerous horses and riders from Training Levels to the Grand Prix. Dressage is hard and she loves the challenge of educating riders and horses. Amelia has a clear understanding of rider position, how to ride a horse and train the movements.
Unlike many top riders, Amelia was NOT a natural talent and fell off so many times in her early riding days that her instructor nearly told her parents she should quit riding! Perseverance, love of all horses, and determination, not innate talent, is what made Amelia into the rider and horsewoman that she is today. Amelia is incredibly grateful to all the teachers who have helped her on this journey especially Joh Hinnemann, Christine Traurig, Sue Martin, Larry Fleming and Julie Barringer-Richers and of course the thousands of horses she's ridden including Geronimo, Trump, and Harvey.
Amelia enjoys helping each individual student and horse find harmony, trust, and balance. "Nothing is more rewarding than watching one of my students glide harmoniously around the ring together with their horse! This makes my heart soar!" says Amelia.
Amelia hopes to one day represent the U.S.A. on the international circuit and loves training her three horses, Harvey, Kensington and Luigi in Los Angeles, CA. Amelia has her USDF Gold, Silver and Bronze medals, She is the winner of the prestigious USEF Carol Lavell Advanced Dressage Prize and a member of the USEF Dressage Development Program.
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Sign up today!! The first 20 students to enroll will receive a FREE had and a Theraband (which you need for the exercises)!