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RideAware
What your horse wants you to know
about balance and movement

RideAware Riding Clinics and intensives

Sit the Trot With Ease
Want to find the stability and ease that transform sitting trot maneuvers into a beautiful and pleasant flow? This clinic helps riders build awareness in and out of the saddle so you and your horse can achieve balance and brilliance. Sitting the trot can be freeing rather than frustrating for both horse and rider. Discover the stability and freedom of balance in motion with this unifying body/mind-centered approach.

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Smooth Transitions
Transitions form the foundation of any ride. This clinic helps you learn to create lightness, balance and precision in all your transitions with less work for you and more self-carriage from your horse.

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Lateral Work Made Easy
Correct lateral work leads to the unique blend of hindquarter strength and suppleness required by working horses in many disciplines. However, many riders dread or avoid lateral exercises in their schooling routines because the work seems difficult, uncomfortable or frustrating.

Lateral work doesn’t have to be hard. Instead, it can be a light and elegant dance initiated by lifting core muscles to invite the horse’s back to elevate and completed by directing your seatbones to guide a light step forward and through. Knowing the biomechanics of the movement in your body makes it surprisingly easy to help your horse understand and perform it in his. You get more impulsion and lightness with much less effort!

All these rider body awareness exercises focus on common challenges faced by riders in all disciplines. Have a challenge you'd like to work on? Contact us about private Biomechanics Coaching sessions or to design a clinic or intensive for you and two to five friends.

RideAware Rider Body Awareness Workshops

An intensive workshop designed to increase your body awareness off the horse to help you make the most of your mounted time.

Innovative yoga matwork tailored to equestrians will teach you advanced practices for stability and flexibility.
A powerful series of “horseless riding” experiences provides you the unique opportunity to experience subtle posture and balance changes from the point of view of the horse.

This is a great clinic for those hot summer days in Tucson. You can improve your riding in air-conditioned comfort!

See photos from a past Rider Body Awareness workshop