Karen teaches a student to make her neutral more neutral in order to enjoy the sweet spot more.
This video is great for anyone who may find themselves working too hard to 'hold it all together' and wants to find more harmony.

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 a couple students with some very basic gymnastic exercises that many people over-look. Taking the time to be more precise at small circles at the walk and in leg yields and shoulder-fore can help you and your horse develop skills that will be of great gymnastic benefit as they advance...

Karen rides Jedi through some exercises to develop his skills for canter pirouettes. Jedi is just beginning to learn these so you can observe the initial stage of development. This video is good for students and horses who have solid working gaits and have begun some collected exercises. Fun Fact...

Karen warms up Jedi for a session on schooling canter pirouettes. You will hear her talk through her warm up and her thoughts for the session. Included are 2 bridle-less exercises. This video will be helpful for students ready to warm up to do more collected movements ... Whether that may be toda...

Karen teaches a student and her horse develop a more harmonious connection with the reins over a couple sessions. The focus will be to improve their 'First Thoughts' about the contact, as well as a 'Freestyle inside the Finesse' exercise. This video will help any rider at any level who is thinkin...

Karen rides 3.5 year old Natilla. In this ride Karen explains how she has been focusing on Natilla understanding and following focus for direction. Keeping aware of certain issues will set her up for success now and in the future! This video is good for anyone with a young horse, or anyone who wa...

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 describes and demonstrates a technique she uses to develop greater self-carriage and to dissolve tension. She rides two horses to show different versions and different degrees of refinement of this same concept. This video is excellent for riders of all levels.

Karen demonstrates how the basics of foundation are carried forward as you begin DN posture exercises. She shows how 'Freestyle' can fit inside the 'finesse'. This video is excellent for any rider who is playing with the exercises of D,N and is wondering how it fits with their foundation

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 couple people through their first flying changes. She demonstrates using SiMoN, the School Master Noodle, then coaches them through the exercise while riding. This video is great for anyone looking for better understanding of riding flying changes.

Karen describes and demonstrates some techniques for helping a rider create activity and responsiveness from the ground. This video is recommended for anyone who wants to try the techniques in the Accessing Energy video and who may want another strategy to help create a lighter/brighter response,...

Karen teaches a student doing the beginnings of collection. The student and her horse can get tight and sticky, and Karen shows three techniques to help them through this stage in their development. This video is great for anyone at the beginning stages of collection, especially if they or their ...

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 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 rides Atomic, who can be spooky and tense. The goal is to ask for Atomic's attention in a way that will lead to him feeling more calm and safe. It is a big challenge for this horse and you will see the real un-glamorous process! This video is great for anyone who has a horse that gets tense...

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 Rohlf rides her almost 4 year old horse, Natilla. This ride is just an example of a typical nice ride for her at this stage. It gives a nice image of a happy, confident young horse. Sometimes the best training is just having a nice ride. This video is great for anyone, especially anyone wit...

Karen coaches a student on a 3-yr-old to set up good habits with HQ yields to avoid problems later. This video takes a look at the very basic HQ yields and gives the rider a tip for avoiding an over-bent neck that will create balance problems later. This video is great for everyone

Karen teaches a student and rides her horse to help them find more throughness. They have an excellent foundation and freestyle, but the horse shows a defensiveness about the bit. This video is excellent for anyone riding in connection

Karen teaches a student to find an active neutral where she can be effective without extra tension. This is good for anyone who is riding in connection