Karen talks about goals, principles, and priorities, and how to discover your own. This will help you navigate your horsemanship journey in a way you can love.
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Karen chats a bit about the power of staying curious! In her clinics, Karen seeks to empower students to visualize, search curiously, and trust their instincts in order to achieve success. This video is great for everyone!

Karen explains the object of dressage, natural horsemanship, and Dressage Naturally. She also takes a look at the basics of what it means to her to develop a partnership with her horses. Your concept of partnership forms the context within which you do everything else with your horse. Learn the k...

Karen explains the concept of the Sweet Spot, how it fits within our foundation, and how it not only helps improve the way our horses move, but our partnership with them, too. This is one of Karen’s signature concepts and is at the heart of Dressage Naturally. Hear how she developed the concept, ...

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 discusses the stages of progress in learning new movements. It begins with a picture and ends with gaining the benefit... But there are a few stages in between! This video is great for every student who is in the process of improving. So that is everyone!

In this video, Karen gives 3 Tips for improving anything you do. These can relate to life in general and she also gives specific examples of how to apply them to making progress with your horse. This video is a result of some reflections for the new year, and comes from her never-ending desire to...

Karen discusses some of the more subtle, yet powerful qualities, and habits that successful students have. This is not an exhaustive list, but key points that often students who are struggling have missed. As Karen says in the video: "With these qualities, everything will be easier."

Karen shares some of her thoughts as she gets ready to start a new year

Karen talks to a group of students about the difference in doing exercises to improve a horse mentally versus emotionally versus physically. Each one of these requires a different approach.

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In this video Karen discusses the challenges of studying Dressage Naturally and taking lessons from someone else. She gives advice and tips for how and when to speak up for your horse and yourself. You’ll also get advice on when it may or may not be OK to make the equipment changes your instructo...

In this video, Karen takes a big picture view of different types of sessions you can do with your horse. You can focus on teaching them something specific, or exercising their bodies, letting them have time to reset, or you can give them more exposure to different things and situations. She uses ...

In this video, Karen discusses a way to find deeper harmony with your horse in any given moment. She will discuss the two ways to find more harmony in any moment. This is a very simple concept, but it's not always so easy to implement!

"You're perfect the way you are. Now change." Karen talks about how change is a necessary part of training. To train IS to change how you do things. Making changes can be challenging. It is natural to resist change. This interesting discussion will give you some ideas about change in general, and...

Discussion and simulation to help you understand and feel what it means to bend. I hope you do get up and try this one... So many students find this helpful at my clinics! What you will learn about your bodies in this exercise usually directly translates to what you find while riding. This video ...

Karen pulls out some of the techniques mentioned in other videos so she can discuss them further. She will talk about Moving Massage, Reflex To Relax, Permission, First Thoughts, and the importance of giving your horse a sense of Freedom and Choice during your training sessions.

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This is a video of one of Karen’s presentations at the 2017 seminar, A Paradigm Of Balance, organized by the Baroque Equestrian Games & Institute. In this video Karen talks about how Precision and Play fit together in a training plan. She talks about the importance of feeling free from the fear o...

Karen shares her protocol for dealing with fear. Everyone feels fear at some point, and especially with horses, we need to be able to deal with it in a healthy productive way. This video is a practical guide that will show you the exact steps to take to help you acknowledge and move through a fea...

Karen reminds you of the importance of knowing the purpose of the exercises you are doing.

Karen discusses some of the key elements for keeping healthy, happy horses. This is not an exhaustive list, but some of the elements that contribute to her success in creating health and happiness in her horses.

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

Karen discusses 2 types of leadership with a student. Sometimes we need to wait and give the horse time, and sometimes we need to do it now. Karen gives some analogies to help her realize it is not about right and wrong, but about consciously choosing and seeing which one works best.

Karen shares some of her thoughts on how to make sure you are a happy athlete. Being a happy athlete is one of the main objects of dressage, but to Karen it is less a final goal and more of a starting point! This discussion will be interesting for anyone who is interested in achieving the object ...

In This video Karen discusses the subject of advocacy and welfare with our horses. Her focus is on what we can all do. Advocacy starts with ourselves, and can be practiced in the small everyday moments.
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