In this video, Karen shows you how to begin riding the classical lateral positions without using your reins. If you can make progress doing this, your lateral work will ultimately be much easier!

This video is good for anyone who already has the basic foundational yields working with no reins. A...

In this video, Karen discusses a strategy for getting maximum benefit when you ride patterns. She will contrast this strategy with the strategy needed for riding competition tests.

This video is great for anyone!

In this video, Karen will show how to improve your horse’s posture in the stretched and working gaits without relying on the reins. Karen will show how to create the stretch, and then bring it up into the working gaits. This is a great exercise for anyone who wants to improve their connection wit...

In this video, Karen helps you learn the concept of the half halt by focusing on the result. The goal of the half halt is to rebalance the horse in a way that he is more energized, engaged, and light on the forehand. Half halts are meant to be brief moments in time, but that makes them difficult ...

In this video, I show three variations of an exercise to help build the ingredients you and your horse need to ride excellent turns. In a nice turn, your horse will carve the turn with their outside shoulder and will stand up away from the inside. They will 'fill up' the outside rein without bulg...

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.

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.

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...

In this video, Karen does a long lining session with Teo in the arena. You will see the basics, plus leg yields, shoulder-in, counter shoulder-in, and some increased collectibility.

This is great for anyone who has the basics of long lining already established.

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 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...

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 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 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 ...

In this video, Karen coaches two students through two exercises.
Exercise #1 is about sensitizing responsiveness to doing lateral movements with greater activity and ease.
Exercise #2 involves lengthening and shortening the canter.
These seemingly different exercises compliment each other and bot...

Karen coaches two students to become more skilled in creating and maintaining the bend during haunches-in. It is a very common challenge to keep the horse’s bend during this movement. You will see an exercise that highlights the necessary skill for horse and rider. This is not a simple or easy ex...

Karen coaches two riders through two different ways to ride a shallow loop serpentine at the trot and the canter:

With changes of bend
Without changes of bend
This shallow loop pattern is a great way to really refine your and your horse's skills for more advanced work, but it can be done at the ...

In this video, Karen will show you how she improves Solana’s Spanish Walk. Solana already knows this movement, but she can easily fall on the forehand, or does not fully extend her leg. Karen will narrate as she quickly changes the dynamic and helps Solana keep her weight on her hind quarters, ge...

In this video, Karen coaches a student to achieve more lightness of aids in haunches in. This rider and horse are capable, but tend to get sticky and use more aids than ideal. This video will help anyone doing lateral work, and you can apply this concept of finding Active Neutral to any exercise ...

In this video, Karen demonstrates a powerful pattern you can do to increase straightness, suppleness, and engagement. To do this exercise you and your horse need to be proficient and confident at shoulder in, counter shoulder in, haunches in, and renvers.

Karen rides her horse Natilla through an exercise for lengthening and shortening the stride. You will hear her explain what she is feeling and doing in the moment.

This video is great for anyone to watch and learn. The exercise is appropriate for anyone practicing their working gaits in order to...

This video shows one of Karen’s favorite patterns for horses who are confident in their working gaits. If you are already playing with leg yields and smaller circles, this is a great pattern to improve your and your horse’s coordination and skills. It is a simple pattern that you can modify to ma...

Karen and Solana demonstrate how you can use riding down a hill to improve your half pass/haunches-in as well as your collectibility at the canter. Karen uses the hill to let gravity create more scope in Solana’s half pass at the walk as a warm up, then moves to collected canter. Karen canters do...

In this video, Karen rides Solana and narrates as she goes through several patterns to warm Solana up to do canter pirouettes off a straight line. Even if you are not ready for canter pirouettes at this time, you can still do the first few exercises shown! You will learn Karen’s thought process a...