This video is a typical session with Natilla at age 5. Karen narrates as she rides her through patterns at her working gaits. The patterns are appropriate for Training and First Level dressage.
This is a great video for anyone who wants some ideas of what to do with their working gaits or has a y...

In this video, you will see the transformation of a very tense horse over a 3-week period. Observe as Karen coaches a student on how to create relaxation of mind and body through the exercises for finding the sweet spot!

Karen coaches a student to create more throughness. Her horse has tendencies to be tight in the back, and unsteady in the connection.
This video shows the greater gymnastic benefit of leg yields. You will see it change the throughness and steadiness of connection in this horse over just a couple ...

Karen helps us gain greater success with her posture exercises on line. Learn how to spend less time searching and more time enjoying. Karen reminds us how her exercises, and foundational exercise of Circle Game fit together. This video is good for anyone playing with the D,N exercises online

Karen rides a student's horse who is a little out of shape, but ready to move from working gaits to more collected gaits. You will also see some before and after photos that show the muscular and postural changes that happened in just 2 months. This video is great for anyone who wants to improve ...

Karen teaches a student with a lovely thoroughbred stallion to find greater clarity, harmony, and relaxation. You will see the simple, yet profound way Karen helped them achieve more by doing less. This video is excellent for anyone who feels like they have excess tension between themselves and t...

Karen teaches a student the Basic Alignment Exercise riding. In this short demo you will hear Karen describe the exercise and take the student through the first stages of it. By the end you will be able to see a clear result as the horse aligns and stretches. This video is excellent for anyone wh...

Karen rides her 4 year old filly, Natilla and describes the very basics of balance and posture appropriate for a horse at this stage. She describes and demonstrates how she begins creating the connection in the reins and the posture through simple balancing between the inside and outside. This vi...

Karen Rohlf teaches a student over 5 days. This horse and rider have an excellent foundation and are accomplished at finding the Sweet Spot for let loose posture. Now they need to come up off the forehand and begin to carry with the hind legs. This is a nice example of the different things Karen ...

Karen rides Ovation and talks through what she is thinking of when riding transitions. The theme is that riding transitions with quality is all about preparation. You need to be able to think about the next gait while still riding the one you are doing. This video is excellent for anyone who is f...

Karen teaches Shelley and Isabella as they play with improving their balance and self carriage. You will see a few weeks worth of progress. They use transitions, shoulder-in and attention to rider position to help create the lightness that was missing. Shelley and Isabella have a good foundation ...

Karen talks a bit about what it may look like when you don't have all the ingredients of the sweet spot. She uses humorous cartoons to help us recognize the exaggeration of what it is like when you are missing one of the conversations of Relaxation, Energy or Balance

See the progress of a horse over several months of creating a more consistent balance and connection

Karen's first time seeing Duncan being ridden, and her first time riding him. Observe what Karen does in order to get a feel for him and also to begin making progress. Duncan is an upper level dressage horse whose owner sought Karen's help because she was considering selling him because he was to...

Karen plays with Duncan on line. This is 3 days and 10 days after his arrival, and a continuation of the video 'Building Rapport with Duncan'. Karen uses a combination of Moving Massage and Basic Alignment Exercise. Find more videos about Duncan by searching for 'Duncan'.

Karen rides Duncan again in a continuation of the video 'Beginning to Rebalance - Duncan'. This is his third day with Karen and she rides him in a halter and snaffle. His owner had been told he should only be ridden in a double bridle. The focus is on self carriage. You can find more videos about...

Karen rides Duncan 3 weeks into his training with her. Now he has a 'sweet spot' and Karen checks if he can maintain it during more movements. We first see Duncan in the February Classroom. He is an FEI horse owned by an amateur rider who came to Karen because he was extremely heavy in the bridle...

Karen teaches a student to help her understand about finding the sweet spot of energy. Even without a lot of 'dressage' knowledge, you can improve your gaits using experimentation and observation.

Karen helps Breanne improve her mare's lateral work. You will see her progress over several weeks. The goal was not only to improve her lateral work, but to use lateral work to improve the mare's general suppleness, throughness and relaxation of her back. this video will be applicable for horses ...

Karen talks about connecting with the circuit of energy as Breanne rides Karen's Lipizzaner, Monty. You will see the difference between a 'whatever' gait, an actively stretched gait and a working gait, and the transitions from one to another. You will also see how quickly the flow of energy can b...

Karen plays on line with Atomic to find some different sweet spots of Relaxation, Energy and Balance. She highlights the importance of feeling free to explore the ranges of motion. Atomic demonstrates a 'whatever' gait as well as a stretched and more 'working' gait. In this video you will see how...

Karen takes a close look at this horse's canter rhythm. He has three beats, but no moment of suspension. Through slow motion and freeze frame you can see how it changes as they make the improvement. She will discuss the exercises they used to achieve this change. This is an excellent video for an...

Karen rides a student's horse at a clinic. This is a horse who moves with an extremely high head carriage and tight back. He and his rider have all the ingredients to be in the sweet spot for a balanced, let loose posture but they needed a little help really finding it! This video is especially f...

Karen teaches Kris on her horse, Wouter. We met Wouter in the video: Basic Alignment Exercise - Wouter. In this video Karen guides Kris in 3 sessions to improve their ability to find consistent 'throughness'. This video is great to help anyone looking for more consistency in their connection, as ...