Karen rides Jedi to show the progress he has made. Karen demonstrates some favorite gymnastic patterns further develop his collectibility including half pass, counter canter, piaffe and pirouettes. This video is good for anyone playing with collection now, or dreaming about doing it someday. Fun ...

Karen rides Jedi through exercises to help him have clean flying changes. Jedi has learned to do a flying change, but they are sometimes late behind, so now they are working on getting them more consistently 'clean'. This video is good for anyone working on flying changes, or wanting to understan...

Karen teaches a student and helps her with her horse who tends to hold his neck too low and is on the forehand. They use a combination of exercises to raise the neck, and engage the hind end. This video is good for anyone who has a nice connection but their horse tends to still be on forehand.

Karen helps a student make a quick improvement on their trot lengthenings by showing them one of her favorite exercises for developing more power and balance in lenthenings. This video will help to start or improve your lengthenings.

Karen teaches a student a quick tip to improve her counter canter, focusing on precision and balance. In counter canter the line you choose to ride can make all the difference. Precision can help create balance. This video is great for anyone playing with counter canter.

Karen teaches a student to find the sweet spot of her HQ yields in motion. This is an important exercise for connection throughout the horse's entire body. This video follows a concept introduced in the video: 'Good Habits in HQ Yields' and is excellent for anyone who is seeking a better physical...

Karen coaches two students through a favorite gymnastic pattern of picking up a canter from a counter bend. This pattern builds coordination, alignment and confidence in counter canter. At the end of the video we contrast one of the riders from when we saw them a year ago to appreciate their impr...

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 coaches a dressage rider though several exercises to help the horse develop a more uphill posture and light forehand. Exercises include using transitions and corners.

This video is great for anyone who has solid working gaits and is playing with developing more collectibility.

In the video 'Baroque Equestrian Games & Institute: Square Turns', Karen demonstrated a really valuable exercise for lightening the forehand and creating engagement and mobility. In this video, Karen coaches riders in a clinic through a square corner exercise. You will see horses of different lev...

DN Licensed Instructor, Liesbeth Jorna, shares some exercises to help you ride corners in a way that develops harmony and balance. You’ll see the common problems people experience when doing corners and learn 3 different exercises to try at the walk, trot, and canter!

This video is great for any...

This video shows a simple exercise to help your horse gain more confidence to go deeper in the corners. This will help if you have a horse that tends to fall in when riding corners. This is a simple pattern that can improve balance with horses at the lower or upper levels of dressage.

Karen and Natilla demonstrate a very simple exercise that is highly effective. This is one of Karen’s "can't live without it" exercises. It helps horses develop the skills and confidence needed to build collectibility in corners. Corners can make everything better, but often horses fall apart in ...

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...

Watch as Karen coaches several horses and riders to play with a very specific circling exercise while riding. Some of what she shows is pretty subtle but we think you will enjoy hearing what Karen chooses to focus on with each pair; and likely it will be something that you also need to focus on! ...

This video explains the 3 primary categories gymnastic exercises, and the 6 Essential Gymnastic Abilities that are necessary to do quality gymnastics. The three categories of exercises will help you strategize about what to do with your horse to maximize his suppleness, straightness, and carrying...

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 ...

In this video I teach Ewa in Sweden on her lovely Lipizzan. He has a habit of curling his head behind the vertical, and becoming too low in the poll. This can be much more challenging to correct than a horse who is too high! I will explain my thought pattern for this issue and you can watch as I ...

In this video, Karen teaches a dressage student with a beautiful warmblood how to create a more balanced posture and positive connection by focusing on Poll High and Self Carriage. This video will show the power of these priorities, and will give you a very beautiful horse to watch

Karen teaches a student who has a lovely connection with her horse, but she loves the stretch and gets a bit low in her working gaits. In this video you will get some great theory, and will see the student quickly put it into practice!
This is a great video for anyone who wants to understand how ...

In this video, Karen coaches a student and her new horse to find a better connection from the inside hind to the outside shoulder by using the hindquarter yield in motion. Karen does this exercise with this horse because he is very different one side to the other. This exercise will be the "medic...

Karen rides 20 meter and 15 meter circles wearing a helmet cam so you can see exactly where she is focusing in order to make accurate circles. This video will help anyone interested in riding in precision or doing dressage tests. When a horse is balanced, it is easier to be accurate and when you ...

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