Karen coaches a rider with a very athletic, energetic horse. Karen shows her how to use a simple exercise that will challenge the horse enough to cause her to change her balance, and end up at a slower tempo with more cadence, without saying 'No' to the energy. By doing this exercise the rider is...

Karen helps a student with their sensitive Arabian. The rider is having trouble finding a harmonious connection with the reins. Karen rides the horse to demonstrate how to use Basic Alignment Exercise to help the horse learn how to find a balance where he can soften his body and find the Sweet Sp...

Getting good results comes from knowing what questions to ask yourself. This video is meant to give you 3 questions to ask yourself when you are riding a high energy or impulsive horse. Think of these questions as a sort of mantra to use. They will be easy to remember and use when you ride. If yo...

Karen gives you 3 Questions to ask yourself that will refine your circles. This short video will give you an easy-to-remember exercise that you can use to take your circles and bending lines from 'good' to 'great'. It will help you keep more consistency in the connection, more lightness and balan...

Karen is joined by special guest Sharon Madera, a Certified Horse Behavior Consultant and practitioner of the International Society For Equitation Science. Sharon observed Karen teaching her Sweet Spot concept of the 3 conversations of Relaxation, Energy, and Balance. Karen was explaining how, wh...

In this short video, Karen gives you 3 easy-to-remember and powerful questions to ask yourself when you are playing with increasing the level of engagement in your horse. These questions can be used to bring your horse up off the forehand, or to increase collectibility in a horse that is already ...

This is a video of a live demonstration Karen did as a co-presenter at an educational event. She helps this rider be more confident and clear with what she already knows so she can get better results in one session. This video is a great example of Karen’s powerful and empowering teaching methods...

This is a follow up with the horse Karen rode in the video: Riding Through Brace. The owner and her horse made a lot of progress since June, but they still had some residual bracing in the contact. Since the balance and communication in general was good, Karen shows them a rein technique that spe...

Karen helps a student with her athletic, sensitive, and flexible horse. This type of horse can be challenging to organize, but Karen helps her through several different exercises to help them untangle themselves and find a sweet spot for the working gaits.

Karen plays on line with the same horse as in this month's Sweet Spot With A Tense, Crooked Horse video. This video is non-dramatic in some ways, but his body type makes it so easy to see the difference in how the muscles of the neck work in different postures, so we thought it would be interesti...

Karen plays with Solana in the Long Lines to show you some basic exercises and to set her up for more collectibility exercises later. Karen will show her playing on straight lines, leg yields, beginning of shoulder in, and transitions.

Karen rides Natilla and checks on her balanced impulsion when bridleless. Karen had not done any bridleless on Natilla in a little while and decided to check on it. She shows how she would tune it up so Natilla is connected through the seat and balancing her own impulsion instead of rolling forwa...

Karen plays with three horses to demonstrate ways to think about better posture and 'throughness' when playing on long lines.

In this video Karen coaches a student riding a horse who can get strong, long, and fast at the canter. It will show you a simple pattern that can be very helpful with this type of horse

Shelby Hume shares some tips on getting your hind quarter and forequarter yields in motion working more smoothly. These exercises are a nice bridge between your foundational yields and more refined lateral work. Shelby will show you some things to think about both on the ground and in the saddle

In this video, Karen coaches a student to understand and identify their Working Gaits and to take the first steps towards Collecting. This is a rider with no previous dressage experience, so this is a great lesson for anyone who has a lot of the pieces buts wants to be more confident in understan...

Liesbeth Jorna shares some favorite cavaletti exercises that can be done on line and riding. This video will be great for anyone looking for a fun way to increase your horse's gymnastic abilities

Karen coaches a student who is practicing Training Level tests, but has had a long-standing issue with picking up and maintaining the left lead. The student has made huge progress, but still needs to find the balance where the horse can reliably pick up and sustain the left lead. Watch as Karen t...

Karen coaches a student who is preparing for First Level dressage tests. They have trouble with energy at the canter, and keeping balance on 15 meter circles. Karen traces it to a fundamental imbalance in the shoulders (the horse leans on his inside shoulder when on the left lead). By focusing on...

Karen coaches a student with her horse on line to find more cadence, power, and elasticity of his stride. He has a rather short, tight stride and you will see how Karen suggests they play with finding a new balance at a higher energy - in order to tempt him to use his body better! This videos is ...

Karen coaches the student through spiraling in and out to help change the horse's balance, cadence, and power. This video is excellent for anyone looking to improve the quality of their horse’s gaits.

Justyna Rucinska from Poland, joins us to share one of her favorite exercises to increase your horse's flexibility from the ground. This is a simple but very powerful exercise that will require great trust and feel, as it helps the horse to relax through the very sensitive poll area. This exercis...

The back up is often one of the most difficult movements to ride in engagement, but it is such an important gymnastic exercise! Karen will demonstrate what it can look like and narrates what she is doing while riding two of her horses. Then she shows you another horse and student learning to do i...

Karen helps student Vicky and her horse Bogie to find a steadier, more engaged connection through their bodies. Vicky has done a great job creating a happy, forward, and loose horse, but now it is time for them both to become more consistent in their engagement and connection within their bodies ...