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Morning exercises with Dressage Rider Training

I've recently purchased an annual membership to Dressage Rider Training's strength road map. This is fantastic value for money. The app means I don't need to be on-line, great for travel! Cant wait to share it with my Train Your Seat Embodied Rider Biomechanics Colleagues and The Rider Mechanic when I'm in Canada in September!

In my year's base membership (for less than $100NZ) I have access to the strength road map which provides structured 12 week trainings at different levels, as well as access to all base programmes - Core stability (6 week programme) and Alignment programmes plus pre and post ride routines, base fitness and wellness, mindset meditations, mobility and yoga workouts. One can taste it and see with a monthly membership option and a 30 day money back guarantee!

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I love that I can dive in and out and easily pick and choose..maybe I want a short pre ride warm up, a mobility session or a core stability session whilst still working on my strength roadmap.

As I do these sessions I'm bringing in my Train Your Seat embodied rider biomechanics tools to help improve the movement without bracing or holding my breath.

I find using a mirror in my workout routine, helps me see where I might be going off line. My simulator room comes in handy. Something to anchor my resistance band to and a large mirror! Todays' morning session was focussing on anti-rotation and posture.

I'm at the Indoor Covered Riding Arena, West Auckland monthly throughout winter and spring. The third day in our season is coming up July 25th.

Individual lessons: In-hand, ridden dressage and/or rider biomechanics.
Middle of the day we have off an off-horse Train Your Seat Embodied Rider Biomechanics movement and awareness workshop.
Riders can attend lesson only $120 or lesson plus workshop $150
Auditors/observers are welcome and fully participate in the workshop but must pre-register as spaces are limited to make sure I have enough resources for everyone attending. $50.

All lesson prices include arena fees. Stable use additional, if required.

BYO lunch and refreshments

Next date: Saturday 25th July. There is just one rider lesson spot left available at 3.45pm, happy to take a waitlist for other times.

Auditors: Still spots available
Workshop Topic: Shoulders - healthy strong shoulders for better connection and support.

Flick me a message here for more information or to book a spot, or send me an email to [email protected]

Jezzie spam!

We have been blessed with some absolutely pearler winter days. Jezzie wanted to share some kisses.

We have a wee trick he does which is back up on a hand signal, then come for a kiss 💋 on a smooch cue. Unfortunately it's hard to capture the full cuteness when Im holding the camera!

Awesome looking webinar series for coaches pr aspiring coaches from NZPCA. These will be at 7.30pm (NZT) I understand

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Fantastic afternoon supporting Wendi Williamson who is off to represent New Zealand in the dressage at the World Championships in Aachen.

Jess's free hip release 5 day challenge is coming up again. I do this every time it pops up - it's great to check in with what's improving (or not). If you've never done it before...what are you waiting for?

FREE Riders' Hip Release Challenge TAP HERE to save your space now!

My amazing friend Abbey Letteri's book will be published in September!

I can't wait to read it!
Abbey and I are hatching a plan for a catch up here soon as it's been way too long, and she really needs to come and share some Jezzie magic AND I will share Abbey with you, and you can find out all about her amazing travels and studies which form the basis of this beautiful book.

"When Abby Letteri first encountered free-living horses, she realised that her whole life she’d been looking at horses without actually seeing them. Wild horses spend their lives building and maintaining social bonds, moving together in synchrony, their communication constant and subtle. In domestication, we isolate them – move them from paddock to stable to yard – separating them from their companions for our convenience, then find them fragile, anxious and difficult to handle.

An immersive and transporting memoir, Perfectly Themselves offers intimate portraits of horses living freely in the company of their own kind, from Aotearoa to the Outer Hebrides, Iceland and Mongolia. Underpinning Letteri’s research is a question sparked by a 33,000-year-old carved horse that seems alive with vitality and ease: what did we once know about horses that we have forgotten?

Part travel narrative, part intellectual inquiry and part personal reckoning, Perfectly Themselves challenges long-held assumptions about human–horse relationships, inviting readers into a more compassionate way of seeing them – not as objects of human desire, but as beings perfect in themselves"

Perfectly Themselves: Horses in the Human World When Abby Letteri first encountered free-living horses, she realised that her whole life she’d been looking at horses without actually seeing them. Wild horses spend their lives building and maintaining social bonds, moving together in synchrony, their communication constant and subtle. In domesti...