Hope & Dreams Quarter Horses

04/12/2025

30 years together wasn't enough. I still remember everyone saying starting him using a dressage saddle was crazy but it worked best for him. I can't believe he's been gone a year. Happy foaling day in The Green Place, G.

05/15/2022

05/03/2022

It’s Lights Out Texas! Now through May 12, let’s do our part to protect the billions of birds migrating over Texas by turning off lights from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. Learn how PEC is doing its part to keep Central Texas’ skies dark: https://shr.link/dark-skies

06/30/2017

05/27/2016

Today, for the first time in my life as a riding instructor, I asked my students to consider what should be the most fundamental question: What does your horse need right now? Because we know Keep Reading

04/16/2016

This video shows step by step how to train a horse for basic kassia style horse back archery demonstrated by Ren age 10 Leo age 9 and Neo age 8 It is a desen...

03/26/2016

First things first, all credit goes to Gaurdianax over at deviantART for this one – please consider checking out her other work as she’s a truly dedicated artist and has plenty of great artwork related...

03/08/2016

A quick free video on getting more weight down into thigh, holding the reins, passive resist, a fun dismounted exercise and downward transitions.

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Taken from the 90 minute long lesson four on Transitions. Comments from participants of lesson 4 on transitions were

"The best lesson yet!"
"Really great explanation of the half halt"
"Excellent lesson. So interesting to hear well thought out explanations for why we don't get good transitions etc. Brilliant to be encouraged to think and focus on what we are doing at all times."
"Just watched the replay for Lesson 4... thank you... awesome...hope to go out and practice later today. Thanks, to, to Milly & Tinker. They are great "models". I really am appreciating all your help, Peter. This course is wonderful."

The Master Your Riding 10 lesson course is a collaboration between Mary Wanless, author of the Ride With Your Mind books and DVDs, and Peter Dove, author of Master Dressage, based wholly on the Ride With Your Mind rider biomechanics techniques. For information on Ride With Your Mind or to find an RWYM accredited coach near you visit http://www.mary-wanless.com

03/04/2016

Master Your Riding 10 Lesson Course Closing Down

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Our course is closing down on Sunday to new members as we are now on lesson 4 which will be on Sunday and is about transitions. We are closing down so people don't get too far behind on homework and our support staff can deal with the numbers. If you wan't to Learn more just click on the link above and join us. The course is based upon the material in 'Master Dressage - The Basics' and Ride With Your Mind Essentials.

Once you join you can access lessons 1,2 and 3 and also join us on Sunday live. You'll get access to a special Facebook group where you can submit homework and get critique and help from myself and others. The group is a great safe place to learn, and people are already making big changes to themselves and their horses for the better.

The Master Your Riding 10 lesson course is a collaboration between Mary Wanless, author of the Ride With Your Mind books and DVDs, and Peter Dove, author of Master Dressage, based wholly on the Ride With Your Mind rider biomechanics techniques. For information on Ride With Your Mind or to find an RWYM accredited coach near you visit http://www.mary-wanless.com

02/18/2016

Problems with turning, falling in, falling out and asymmetry?

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Peter Dove and I are running a ten lesson course based on 'The Basics' which I co-authored and edited with Peter. Lesson 5 is going to be about turns and circles. The image here shows what I call 'skewers' - imagine you had 3 skewers running through your body at the levels shown on the image. If you are turning on a circle correctly all 3 skewers should remain at a tangent to the circle and all lined up on top of each other.

Now imagine a rider collapsing and twisting to the inside... one could imagine, that to some extent, all skewers would be pointing to the inside of the circle. Maybe the top skewer would be really pointing inwards as the person twists their shoulders to the inside.

I often think of the rider's body from the seat bones up as a Rubik's cube with the three layers - it is always interesting to see which way the different layers are twisting....

Peter is running some of the earlier lessons in the course and I will be running some of the more advanced sessions on sitting trot, canter etc. If you join before the weekend you will see the rerun of lesson 1 live on alignment and position, and lesson 3 on rising trot mechanism.

The Master Your Riding 10 lesson course is a collaboration between myself and Peter Dove based wholly on the Ride With Your Mind rider biomechanics techniques. For information on Ride With Your Mind or to find an RWYM accredited coach near you visit http://www.mary-wanless.com/

02/07/2016

Trailer video of 'an inside look' at the making of Tinne Vilhelmson Silfvén's new show-freestyle 2011, produced by Slings Music Cast. More…

02/06/2016

Lesson 2 : The Seat, Stability and Core Strength

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In this video I talk about what is to come in lesson 2 in our 10 lessons which you can still join at https://rwym.clickfunnels.com/master-your-riding?lesson=seat - I have set up a safe learning environment via a closed Facebook group so you can post photos and videos and get feedback from me. Only those who have subscribed to the course are allowed in and we have admins making sure comments are always constructive. If you have joined an not received the information just PM me and we'll help sort it out. Sometimes email isn't as reliable as we wish!

In the photo you see me describing Jay's typical movement pattern of bulging under the neck and compressing his head and neck in.