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.
NEW Live Challenge:Â Bananas about Straightness
Bananas About Straightness Challenge
FREE Challenge July 15-18
A 3-Day Challenge to Solve the Crookedness Dilemma (For You and Your Horse)
Are your and your horse’s crookedness issues driving you bonkers? You’re not alone. But there is a solution for that. Join us for this 3-Day Challenge - for FREE.Â
Bananas About Straightness is a Free 3-day challenge. You will learn how to:
🍌 Accurately assess the crookedness patterns that are holding you and your horse back - When you understand better, you can ride better.Â
🍌 Guide your horse to greater straightness, better balance, and improved soundness through gymnastic dressage exercises - With the right exercises and tools, you will be equipped to help your horse rather than staying on the hamster wheel of frustration.Â
🍌 Refine your coordination and body awareness to improve your own nagging crookedness issues - When you fix your own crookedness patterns along with your horse’s, you are able to finally move beyond the obstacles that have held you back.Â
 With clear explanations, practical exercises for you and your horse, and feedback every step of the way - this Challenge will be an experience you will never forget.
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Our Featured Courses
Topline MakeoverÂ
Sculpt, rebuild and repair your horse's topline through our comprehensive groundwork programme.
Learn techniques including longeing, double-longeing, work-in-hand, long reining and Feldenhorse-bodywork.
€297
or payment plans available
Training the Half Pass
Brand NEW course June 30, 2025..
We will cover the horse gymnastic development, rider’s seat and aids, as well as troubleshooting the many problems that can come up along the way. This course is a complete system for cultivating the half pass from the ground up.
 €497Â
Through the Back
We don’t teach you to just address the head and neck to get the horse to lift the back. We teach you how to ride the WHOLE horse, how to engage the hindquarters and enable the horse to lift the back. And we don’t just tell you what you should be doing. We give you ALL the tools and understanding you need.
Began February 11, 2025.
€450
Our Memberships
The Ritterize Membership
Monthly or Annual Subscription
July 2025 Topic: "The PliĂ© and Counter Canter"Â
+ 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; ancel anytime.
€99/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
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.
