Karen coaches a student to find more ease when riding shoulder in. Karen will re-explain the aids of shoulder in, and will help from the ground so the rider is able to focus on her position. This video will help anyone who is doing shoulder in but feels like they are working too hard and getting ...

Karen coaches a student to help increase her horse’s collectibility at the canter by doing specific patterns using a box and the arena. This video is great for anyone with solid working gaits who is moving into collectibility and has trouble with adjustability at the canter.

Karen coaches a student who has had a lot of trouble with flying changes. Karen’s approach is to improve the collectibility of the canter. You will see an exercise to help improve the walk-canter and canter-walk transitions, and then will see a successful flying change! The rider of this horse ha...

Karen coaches a student who is schooling Third Level dressage to increase her mare’s activity and responsiveness. The goal was to better her skills for collectibility and to improve the quality of her flying changes. You will see the beginning of setting up the pattern, and how to use it during a...

In this video, Karen discusses two possible ways to handle it when your horse doesn’t do what you ask: Try again with a different approach vs. Reinforcing your aids in the moment. She pulls from video clips from two other training videos to demonstrate and explain how she decides to use which met...

Karen explains one complete ride on Natilla as they seek to gain more consistency and strength in their collectibility. You will see the warm up as well as many patterns including shoulder-in, half pass, lengthening, and shortening the stride.

This is a great video for people who are looking for...

Karen narrates a ride on Solana where she schools movements requiring moderate to advanced collection. You will see where things work well, when they don’t, and will hear Karen’s thought-process throughout.

This video is great for anyone working with moderate collectibility.

In this exercise, you will see Karen ride a shoulder- in to canter exercise from the Baroque Equestrian Games & Institute (BEGI). You will see her ride it once, with quite nice results, and then she will repeat it with some coaching from Bruno Gonzales (co-createor of BEGI). You will see how, in ...

In this short video, we will look at a way to ride corners so it builds higher degrees of collectibility. You will also see how you can take that feeling and begin to ask for that higher engagement without the corner. This is a great video if you are ready to either start collection or to take it...

This is a video of Karen riding a favorite sequence of movements that will help increase your horse’s shoulder mobility, bend, engagement, and lateral balance. The pattern shown is an excerpt from the Rassembler 2 Pattern from the Baroque Games & Institute. This exercise will be good for anyone w...

In this video I coach a rider with her horse to find more relaxation within her body as she asks her horse to do transitions that require some collectibility. This pair is quite capable and lovely, but they both can sometimes hold more tension. It is really important that as movements become more...

In this video, Karen coaches 2 students in 2 different exercises involving transitions at markers. Both exercises are gymnastic puzzles that require collectibility and more refined communication between horse and rider because they require doing 2 transitions only a few strides apart. This video ...

In this video, Karen coaches a student through exercises to improve her medium canter. This horse needs more power and scope in the medium, yet at the same time, he can overreact to the aids. Karen shows them a way to develop the medium canter so he becomes both more bold and smoother.

IIn this video Karen rides Solana to demonstrate the power of doing frequent transitions. Solana tends to be a bit sticky, with low responsiveness. This is an exercise that does not come naturally for her, so you will hear what Karen is thinking about to get a better result. Karen is using this e...

In this video Karen rides Natilla and narrates. Natilla is coming out of a semi-vacation and is building back up. The theme of this session is to show you that it’s OK to ask your horse to put in more effort (for things that are fair, reasonable, and possible for your horse to do). Natilla is hap...

In this video you’ll see Natilla do the Haute Ecole pattern 1 from the Baroque Equestrian Games & Institute (BEGI). You’ll hear my commentary as well as insights from Bruno Gonzales of BEGI. You can learn more about BEGI, and check out their patterns at Baroquegames.com

In this video Karen describes what she does with Ovation in a typical week in order to keep him happy, fit, and healthy. As horses get older it can be confusing about what or how much to do with them. Of course every horse is different, but Karen thought it would be helpful to see what she does w...

This video shows one of Karen’s favorite exercises. It is one of the rare moments when Karen is quite strict about the rules. Karen did a podcast about this exercise which you can find here: https://dressagenaturally.net/podcast-library/ep107-grid-exercise/

This is an exercise to improve your fo...

In this video Karen gives you three key questions to ask yourself when riding shoulder-in. These questions will help you achieve a higher quality shoulder in, instead of just ‘getting it done’. This is for riders and horses who are already confident doing a recognizable shoulder in. It will make ...