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Loving Presence with Horses Helping dressage riders ride with mindfulness for quality movements .

Grounded in 50+ years in the saddle, 35+ years in upper level positive-reinforcement dressage, 25 years with a Zen teacher, and training in the Hakomi Method of mind-body awareness.

Ever watch your dressage trainer apply an aid and think: 'I'm doing exactly that, but it's not working'?Here's what many...
25/09/2025

Ever watch your dressage trainer apply an aid and think: 'I'm doing exactly that, but it's not working'?

Here's what many dressage riders, even good ones, don't realize about dressage aids: The difference between 'too much' and 'too little' is often milliseconds and millimeters.

Your trainer doesn’t just possess a “better feel.” They've developed something very specific: The ability to recognize exactly when an aid is:

✔️ Too strong
✔️ Too light
✔️ Just right

But the problem is that most riders are told to just 'feel it' (Like that's somehow magically going to happen), instead of being shown how to actually develop the perception that makes the difference.

Want to start figuring out if your aids are not too much or too little and get them just right?

To download the free 2-minute audio, Too Much, Too Little, Just Right — A Quick Warm-Up for Riders visit here ➡️➡️➡️ subscribepage.io/wGkCX9

Dressage Riders: “Use your outside rein' (But HOW much do you use it?!) This is the frustrating secret no one talks ab...
25/09/2025

Dressage Riders: “Use your outside rein' (But HOW much do you use it?!) This is the frustrating secret no one talks about in dressage.

Here's the problem with these instructions: They tell you WHAT to do... But not HOW MUCH to do it.

It's like being told to 'add salt' to a recipe without knowing if that means a pinch or a tablespoon.

Your trainer sees the exact amount needed... But you're left guessing:
How much outside rein?
How strong of a leg aid?
How deep to sit?

No wonder the same aid that works for them doesn't always work for you.
Want to know exactly how to figure out how much is enough (And how much is too much)?

👇 Comment 'HOW' for the free 2-minute audio, Too Much, Too Little, Just Right — A Quick Warm-Up for Riders.

A rider messaged me yesterday and told me she listened to the Free 2 minute Warm Up Your Mind audio as soon as she got i...
19/09/2025

A rider messaged me yesterday and told me she listened to the Free 2 minute Warm Up Your Mind audio as soon as she got it. “I love the way my mind got calm,” she said, “and that’s just the way I want to feel when I ride dressage.” It only took 2 minutes to do what I’ve been trying to do for years!”

As a dressage professional who's helped hundreds of riders find mental clarity in the saddle, this is exactly why I created the Free Warm Up Your Mind Audio for dressage riders.
If you want to try it, drop a 🐴in the comments to get it for free.

Before a correct shoulder-in, you need a clear mind more than your horse needs angle.Read that again.Everyone's focused ...
18/09/2025

Before a correct shoulder-in, you need a clear mind more than your horse needs angle.

Read that again.

Everyone's focused on:
➡️ Getting the perfect angle
➡️ Finding the right position
➡️ Applying precise aids

But this is the foundation most often missed: When your mind is quiet, your body naturally finds balance. When your body's balanced, your horse responds. When your horse responds, the angle appears.

Funny how that works, isn't it?
👇 Drop a '🐴' if this shifts your thinking about shoulder-in

Bree gave me more impulsion without me asking for a thing.It happened right after I listened to my own 2-minute Warm Up ...
17/09/2025

Bree gave me more impulsion without me asking for a thing.
It happened right after I listened to my own 2-minute Warm Up Your Mind Audio for dressage riders.

Her trot lifted me into unmistakable self carriage, almost like she’d been waiting for me to finally let go of my series of busy thoughts than ran interference with her natural talent.

The shift surprised me because it didn’t come from more effort or more aids.
It simply came from two quiet minutes.


Back in the 1960s, when I was 12, I got the chance to ride Misty—the most sought-after lesson horse at our barn.She was ...
16/09/2025

Back in the 1960s, when I was 12, I got the chance to ride Misty—the most sought-after lesson horse at our barn.

She was a gorgeous gray mare who had been to shows, and you had to be a good rider to be assigned to her. The first time I got her, I was ecstatic. My mind was buzzing with my good fortune.

But when Misty trotted over the cavaletti, I somehow fell off. To this day I don’t really know what happened—except that I wasn’t with her. My mind was filled with thoughts of grandeur, not with the feeling of her suspended trot over those poles.

That fall taught me something I didn’t have words for at the time: when my mind is somewhere else, I can’t ride what’s happening in the moment.
It’s a lesson I’m still learning—and it’s exactly why mindfulness matters so much in dressage.

Meditation often gets talked about as just a way to calm down. But meditation barely scratches the surface for riders, b...
12/09/2025

Meditation often gets talked about as just a way to calm down.

But meditation barely scratches the surface for riders, because horses gift us something most people never see coming.

Step into the barn, pause a minute and you can feel it: a way of being that makes the kind of meditation most people talk about feel like only the beginning.

Dressage asks for precision, but nerves and chatter in your mind mess things up. Horse-gifted mindfulness clears the noi...
11/09/2025

Dressage asks for precision, but nerves and chatter in your mind mess things up. Horse-gifted mindfulness clears the noise, so what you ask your horse to do happens naturally and correctly with less mistakes.

With 50 years in the saddle and 30 devoted to upper-level dressage - alongside 25 years of study with a Zen teacher - I’ve helped hundreds of riders find performance that feels natural through Horse-Gifted Mindfulness.” To get a FREE 2-minute audio meditation that helps you ride better dressage, comment “notice more” and I’ll send it to your inbox.

Mindfulness isn’t just sitting still and trying to empty your head.That’s where a lot of dressage riders get stuck—becau...
10/09/2025

Mindfulness isn’t just sitting still and trying to empty your head.
That’s where a lot of dressage riders get stuck—because quieting your thoughts alone doesn’t change how the ride feels.

The difference comes when you drop into a quieter state with your horse.
Noticing their breath, their rhythm, the way their energy meets yours.

That’s horse-gifted mindfulness.
It’s not just you calming down.
It’s the space where you can actually feel when and if the bend is flowing, if the impulsion is lifting, and if your aids are coming through clear.

With 50 years in the saddle and 30 devoted to upper-level dressage - alongside 25 years of study with a Zen teacher - I’ve helped hundreds of riders reach a quiet state of mind to ride better dressage with Horse-Gifted Mindfulness.

To get a FREE 2-minute audio meditation that helps you get more aware, comment “notice more” and I’ll send it to your inbox.

Most people think mindfulness is just a way to calm down.Nice idea, but that barely scratches the surface for when you w...
09/09/2025

Most people think mindfulness is just a way to calm down.
Nice idea, but that barely scratches the surface for when you want to ride better dressage.

When your mind gets quiet—really quiet, the kind of mindfulness that fits dressage—you start noticing things you’d usually ride right past.

The grip in your legs you didn’t realize was there.
The weight sitting in your hands.
Whether your horse’s bend is flowing or stuck.
Even that mysterious “feel” great riders always talk about.

A quiet mind doesn’t just calm you.
It opens up the details—the ones that make all the difference in the saddle.

With 50 years in the saddle and 30 devoted to upper-level dressage - alongside 25 years of study with a Zen teacher - I’ve helped hundreds of riders find performance that feels natural through Horse-Gifted Mindfulness.”

To get a FREE 2-minute audio meditation that helps you get more aware, comment “notice more” and I’ll send it to your inbox.

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You get a moment of collection with your dressage horse, but does it stay?So what do you do if it doesn’t? Try harder. S...
08/09/2025

You get a moment of collection with your dressage horse, but does it stay?

So what do you do if it doesn’t? Try harder. Sit up more, more half-halts, more leg.

Your horse goes above or behind the bit again.

Your brain is going a million miles an hour trying to hold onto that collection. But collection in a dressage horse needs quiet in your mind.

We’re taught all the things to do to give the correct aids to get your horse collected.
But we skip right over getting your head right first.

With 50 years in the saddle and 30 devoted to upper-level dressage - alongside 25 years of study with a Zen teacher - I’ve helped hundreds of riders find performance that feels natural through Horse-Gifted Mindfulness.

To get a FREE 2-minute audio meditation that steadies your mind before you step into the stirrup, comment “steady mind” and I’ll send it to your inbox

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