Karen shows you a gymnastic exercise that is equally beneficial for the horse and rider. She will show you how to play with changing the length of the top line and the length of the strides independently. This is a great exercise for any horse and rider to play with. It will teach the rider a mor...

Karen plays with Solana in the Long Lines to show you some basic exercises and to set her up for more collectibility exercises later. Karen will show her playing on straight lines, leg yields, beginning of shoulder in, and transitions.

Karen plays with Atomic on the Long Lines to show you how to use basic lateral work to create engagement and collectibility. They demonstrate shoulder in, haunches in, and half pass, as well as some piaffe and passage.

Karen coaches a student through a basic and favorite exercise for developing lengthenings. This video will give you a lot to think about for taking the first attempts at lengthenings so it will be as organized and balanced as possible.

Karen coaches a student who is practicing Training Level tests, but has had a long-standing issue with picking up and maintaining the left lead. The student has made huge progress, but still needs to find the balance where the horse can reliably pick up and sustain the left lead. Watch as Karen t...

The back up is often one of the most difficult movements to ride in engagement, but it is such an important gymnastic exercise! Karen will demonstrate what it can look like and narrates what she is doing while riding two of her horses. Then she shows you another horse and student learning to do i...

Karen coaches Heidi to improve her horse’s collectibility. You will see lovely examples of lateral work and transition exercises. Heidi is a rider with a lot of feel and timing, and great communication with her horse. You will see a nice example of how to maximize your horse's gaits and balance. ...

In this video Karen gives you a very simple transition exercise of doing walk-trot transitions with invisible aids while maintaining the same speed. Karen shows how this deceptively simple exercise is the basis of what will later lead to piaffe.

Karen teaches a student, Linda, on her big moving, sensitive Swedish Warmblood, Ressac. Ressac can get tight and tense, especially in the canter. He also can get strung out in his body, yet curled up and 'too light' in the contact, making it difficult for Linda to solve on her own. Watch as Karen...

Karen rides a horse over two days to improve his general engagement, balance, and power. They focus especially on his canter departs and balance at the canter, where he tends to sprawl and become difficult to steer. You will see the process of changing the horse's way of moving by challenging him...

This is a video of Karen taking a lesson with Jos. It was originally made for Karen's personal record, but she thought you might like to see it. Ovation is schooling 4th level. He had had a difficult time learning to collect at the canter, and finally he is over the hump! The sound quality is not...

This is a normal ride for Solana on a very hot Florida morning. In this video Karen narrates as she rides this young horse to show you what a typical ride at this level could look like.

Karen will show you one of her favorite exercises to develop better balance at the canter. By having a very particular focus in doing transitions from walk, to just a few strides of canter and back to walk, you and your horse can build some valuable skills that will increase your ability to colle...

Karen shows three horses doing different exercises to create and develop piaffe. The exercises are in hand, at liberty and riding. This video uses slow motion and freeze-frame to help identify the best steps at their stage. Piaffe is a 'Collectibility' exercise in the Upward Spiral of Success. Pi...

Glenn Stewart (http://thehorseranch.com) plays with Karen's filly, Natilla, to demonstrate how he builds responsiveness and a responsibility to put in effort. Natilla has energy when Karen rides her, and during play sessions, but she drags around during normal handling and leading. Karen asked Gl...

Karen coaches a student, Justyna, through some exercises for lateral work, flying changes, and piaffe. The video includes a little of the warm up also. Jedi is a very sensitive horse who can get tight out of a huge desire to please, (a lovely problem), so it requires that the rider stays relaxed,...

Karen coaches a student with a talented young warm blood. They have started their flying changes, but they are not consistently clean. You will see the exercises and advice Karen gives the student, and will see the positive result! Karen uses slow motion and still frames to help you see what is h...

Karen coaches two students through a favorite gymnastic pattern of picking up a canter from a counter bend. This pattern builds coordination, alignment and confidence in counter canter. At the end of the video we contrast one of the riders from when we saw them a year ago to appreciate their impr...

Karen rides Ovation and talks through what she is thinking of when riding transitions. The theme is that riding transitions with quality is all about preparation. You need to be able to think about the next gait while still riding the one you are doing. This video is excellent for anyone who is f...

See the progress of a horse over several months of creating a more consistent balance and connection

Karen plays on line with a horse who has had difficulty getting relaxed canter departs especially from the walk. In this video Karen shows one complete session, narrating what she is doing to achieve one-session's worth of progress. As always it is about conversations of relaxation, energy and ba...

Karen plays with Atomic to show how to use squares instead of just circles when playing on line. This will help allow your horse to keep flowing freely, yet stay more mentally and physically engaged. You will see how to be able to alternate between straight lines, circles and corners on line (and...

Karen plays with a student's horse to demonstrate how to improve the conversations about Energy and Relaxation. These ingredients are necessary in order to begin to find the Sweet Spot. You will see how by just changing the horse's state of readiness and relaxation also changed his quality of gai...

Karen teaches Helen and her horse 'Adorable' so they can improve their harmony within their working gaits. Karen uses her technique of asking the rider questions which help focus her attention on the necessary qualities. This increased Helen's confidence as a leader and gave this willing horse so...