Welcome to the Ritterverse
From Basics to Brilliance: Your Dressage Learning Adventure Awaits
Train Smarter, Connect Deeper.
One Ride at a Time.
We teach riders how to train their horses themselves. This is our mission. To help riders like YOU learn a kinder, smarter way of working with your horse. To give you the tools you need in order to develop your riding and your horse yourself. To help you learn how to learn, how to tap into your intuition, how to develop your feel, and how to discover the "rider wisdom" within yourself. Essentially, our aim is to empower riders like you to take control over their learning and their riding journey.

To help YOU so that you can help YOURSELF... and help your horse. Because in the end, it’s all about the horse.
Dr. Thomas Ritter
I am Thomas Ritter, an international dressage clinician and author dedicated to helping riders like YOU master the art of riding with clarity, confidence, and connection.
Shana Ritter
I am Shana Ritter. I am a dressage trainer who takes an alternative approach to working with horses and riders. I serve riders like YOU who want to learn in a supportive, validating, and fulfilling way.
Catherine McCrum
I am Catherine McCrum, a Feldenkrais practitioner who helps riders like YOU develop greater body awareness, balance, and ease in the saddle.
Featuring...
Simple Changes Workshop
Begins January 9, 2026!
4-week Intensive-Focus WorkshopÂ
The Simple Changes Workshop is a focused, 4-week online training designed to help riders finally master the often-tricky dressage simple change (canter → walk → canter) by breaking it down into clear components, building strength and responsiveness step-by-step, and providing video demos, exercises, and real feedback so you can polish your changes with confidence and clarity. Whether you’re stuck on timing, balance, or consistency (or just want a smarter, more effective pathway before moving on to flying changes), this course gives you practical tools and support to transform frustration into real results.
Fully supported with Hot Seats and Q&As.Â
€297
Payment plans available
Training the Flying Changes Course
Begins February 13, 2026!
21-week Complete Training Program
The Perfect Step-by-Step DIY Method for Riders who want to break through the confusion, overwhelm, and stress of navigating how to train the flying changes. With our logical, biomechanics-based system, you can gently and confidently lead your horse down the path to the flying changes. By following this system, you work with your horse to build the requisite gymnastic skills as well as the mental understanding and confidence so that the flying changes become simply easy and straight-forward for both you AND your horse. (Like the easiest thing in the world! Really!)
Fully supported with Q&As and feedback in the Facebook Group
€597
Payment plans available
The Artistic Rider Coaching Program
12-Month Exclusive Coaching Program with Shana and Thomas Ritter.Â
The Artistic Rider is a completely new, year-long coaching journey that helps you finally get clear, grounded, and connected in your riding by strengthening the inner game - the part no one talks about, yet the part that quietly shapes everything you do in the saddle.
Begins January 17, 2026
Our Memberships
The Ritterize Membership
Monthly or Annual Subscription
January 2026 Topics: "Parameters of the Gait"
and "Working WITH, not against."
+ an Exercise of the Month
+ a Feldenkrais Lesson
+ Hot Seat coaching session
Join anytime; cancel anytime.
You're never locked in!
€39/month
Q&A Subscription
Now Available!
Get personalized support, video feedback, and expert coaching with 2 live Q&A sessions each month — plus replay access and a private podcast feed to listen on the go.
Perfect for upgrading any self-study course into the full, supported experience or extend your coaching and support in our other programs.
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Monthly access; cancel anytime.
€99/month
Monthly Video Coaching Subscription with Thomas Ritter
Now Available!
Get 1-on-1 support, video feedback, and expert coaching. You will receive one coaching session per month. You can get detailed instruction tailored just for you, your horse, and your situation - all online. Sessions can be Live Lessons or based on pre-recorded footage.
Monthly access; cancel anytime.
€175/month
Our Online Courses
Full, Premium Courses
The full learning experience! All the bells and whistles. Fully supported with Q&As and ongoing feedback.
Self-Study Courses
Perfect for those who want to learn at their own pace. Full size and short courses on various vital training topics.
Workshops & Challenges
Our taste-tester offerings. A selection of self-study challenges and workshops designed for your self-learning journey.
Feldenkrais Courses for Riders
The FeldenFit Programme with Catherine McCrum
With 30-Day Members-Only Challenges
FeldenFit lessons, designed by rider and Feldenkrais Practitioner Catherine McCrum, help you improve balance, coordination, and ease of movement both in and out of the saddle. Through short, accessible sessions and lifelong access, you'll address stiffness, faulty habits, and postural challenges to ride with greater harmony and resilience.
€297 4-part package
Or €97 for each part
or payment plans available
The Aware Rider with Catherine McCrum
Parts 1 and 2. Feldenkrais with Catherine McCrum, fused with Dressage with Shana and Thomas Ritter.
How can we improve how we move ultimately with the aim of having a better relationship with our horses: One in which we can listen to ourselves as well as listen to them in such a way that they hear what we're saying. This is a conversation about the conversation we have with our horses.
€347
or payment plans available
How Can Feldenkrais Help Riders?
Experience it for yourself! Try out Feldenkrais for Riders in this 7-day Free Challenge.
Together with Feldenkrais Practitioner, Catherine McCrum, we have put together a set of off-the-horse lessons that you can use to improve your coordination, balance, suppleness, and feel. In this challenge, you will do one Feldenkrais lesson per day. These lessons are pre-recorded so you can do it on YOUR schedule.
FREE
FeldenFoot Workshop
No Foot, No Rider.
FeldenFoot is a 5-day self-study workshop with Catherine McCrum, focusing on how your feet form the foundation of a good seat.
€49
FeldenHip Workshop
Hips don't lie.
This 5-day workshop with Feldenkrais Practitioner Catherine McCrum focuses on developing independent legs and hips to improve your seat and connection with your horse.
€49
FeldenBreathe Workshop
Breathing for Stability
This 5-day workshop with Feldenkrais Practitioner Catherine McCrum focuses on using your breath to create inner support, improving your stability and suppleness in the saddle.
€49
Books & eBooks
eBooks & The Digital Journal
Immediate access. Download and print or read on your device.
Books
Real books. Printed on real paper, you know.
