"The Ride" is a private and progressive lesson for groups of people that have an earnest desire to find and fill the "holes" in their relationship and training progression with their horses. The course will start with groundwork and move to the saddle when the students have completed the curriculum. All students will start their saddle horse work in the snaffle bit and help their horse find softness in it. Typically, the group will meet once or twice a month for as long as it takes! Neither Life nor Horsemanship are a destination. They are a journey!

• Head down for haltering/bridling

• Personal Space
• “Circle Up”
• “Hook-on”
• Handling the feet
• Hind quarter yield from ground
• Saddle fit and placement
• Proper use of a snaffle
• Teaching your horse to “park”
• Mounting with “style”
• Direct rein
• Indirect rein
• Lateral Softness
• Three leg positions
• Hind quarter yield mounted
• Hind around the front (on the forehand)
• Front around the hind (on the hind quarter)
• Hobbling
• 5 parts of a horse
• “Soft feel” (Vertical softness)
• I.D.R.I.V.E.
• Lineless Driving
• Bringing up your “life”
• Transitions (through the gallop)
• Lateral softness in motion
• “Soft feel” in motion
• Soft feel down to a rock back stop
• Shoulder control
• Haunches in
• Side pass
• Perfect circle
• Rock back stop
• Spiraling in (trot and canter)
• Spiraling out (trot and canter)
• Turn around
• Roll Back
• Four corners exercise
• Lead departure
• Simple Change
• Flying change
• Awareness of “Foot fall”