Workshops and Seminars offered for your Club or Stable
Seminars of 2½ to 3 hours that include horses:
- How to Fall Off Your Horse:
Using slow motion tumbling,
a stationary horse and a real horse, this seminar attempts to
teach you to emergency dismount in an effort to train your muscle
memory to tuck and roll when the inevitable happens.
- The Importance of Neutral Pelvis and Leading the Therapeutic Horse and Rider:
This seminar uses leading techniques first leading each other, and then using a real horse and role playing:
one riding, one leading and one or two side walking. Participants learn how to use
their bodies to affect the horse and rider when they are leading. This seminar is very
useful for volunteer and teacher training.
Can be given for up to 40 people at a time.
Good for an indoor arena on a cold winter's morning because everyone keeps moving.
- Horse Anatomy and Saddle Fitting:
This seminar needs a barn space and several differently
shaped horses. We look at a variety of saddles on the different horses to develop an eye
for the way the saddle fits and does not fit and why.
Evening or 1-2 hour seminar topics that do not need a horse:
- The Importance of Posture in Riding:
Participants learn how to find their own
spinal alignment and neutral pelvis through exercises and role-playing both standing
and sitting, using an Alexander Horse and physio-balls.
- How to Use Your Leg Aids:
Participants learn about human and horse
anatomy. They will experience what it feels like to the horse to use legs
correctly and incorrectly through the use of exercises on the mini-trampoline
and role-playing.
- How to Use the Reins:
Participants will learn many techniques for handling reins
and what reins can do for controlling the horse and what they can not do. This seminar
uses sets of actual reins and lots of interactive role-playing.
- Anatomy of Bitting:
Participants will learn about the anatomy of the
horse's mouth using actual horse skulls. They will learn what bits can and cannot do to control the horse
featuring the latest research by Dr. Hilary Clayton and Dr. Joyce Harmon. We will see
portions of the Mylar Bit video. Most people come away with a whole new perspective
on bits.
- All About Saddles:
Learn about different saddles and parts of a saddle. Take
apart a saddle to see how they are made.
- The Human Side of Saddle Fitting:
See and feel how differently shaped
saddles can affect your comfort and riding ability. We will sit in many different saddles
on a real saddle stand, the kind found in tack shops.
- The Horse Side of Saddle Fitting:
We will look at the bottom side of many
different saddles to learn how the shape affects the horse's comfort and way of going.
- Horse Bones: Where do they all go? Using a real skeleton participants will see
and feel the bones as the learn how the bones go together.
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