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...

This video shows a session with me and Teo where we had to go back to the beginning. He had started getting really stuck again and would stop and refuse to go forward. Because of his history, his emotional tension, and the physical sensations he gave me, I was finding myself getting a bit stuck t...

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.

This video is the second half of the session shown in the video: Teo Riding Preparation. It is a also a follow up on the Video: Helping A Horse To Be Open & Forward. I think you will see a nice improvement. You will notice how much more relaxed and expressive he is, and how much more open to sugg...

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 explains why arm position and shortening of the reins can be helpful when asking your horse for collection

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...

Riding bareback can be a fun way to get a close feel for your horse and to improve your balance. If you have never ridden bareback before, this video will give you the very first steps to help you have a successful start! DN Licensed Instructor Shelby Hume shares some valuable tips for beginning ...

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 ...

Watch a demonstration by Karen about Bridleless riding: Why you want to do it, how to start, and how it will help your dressage. Karen rides Natilla, beginning with the bridle, but explaining the purpose of the reins and how to focus on seat connection even when riding with the reins. Then she ta...

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...

Karen rides Solana and demonstrates how she uses a neck rope during dressage in order to create more lightness of the front end, or a taller neck. She will explain how a neck rope could be used also for basic stopping and turning, but in this video she uses it in a more refined way. This video is...

In this video, Karen explains and demonstrates a technique for your position that will help allow the horse to move under your seat better, and allow you to follow your horse. The outside leg is often not talked about, and too many times riders don’t realize that they are using their outside leg ...

This video is of a demo and mini-clinic Karen did at Equine Affaire 2021, called All About Contact. These riders are new to Karen. In this part, you will hear Karen give an overview of her view about contact and see 4 riders go through a preliminary exercise to help improve the contact and connec...

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.

In this video Karen rides Teo while narrating how she changes her intention and strategy in each moment based on his mental/emotional state. Teo has some residual stress connected with arenas from his previous life. He is a lovely horse who can go introverted when stressed. He has a history of ex...