New and Upcoming Courses
2023 Training the Flying Changes Course
Sept 1, 2023 - January 25, 2024 (21 weeks)
The 12 Roads to Bold, Brave, and Confident Flying Changes
You. Your Horse. Train the Flying Changes TOGETHER.
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.
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The Ritterize Membership
(previously EOTM)
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September 2023:
Gentleness vs. Discipline
This month's theme is Gentleness vs. Discipline
September, if you’re in the Northern Hemisphere, always calls the return back to school, the end to the frivolity (and flies and scorching heat) of Summer, and a time to get serious about the training before the Winter months set in. If you’re in the Southern Hemisphere, it is the time of heralding in Spring and all that the new season of riding adventures will hold. Regardless of which hemisphere you are in, it is a good time to also re-align ourselves with the direction we want to go in our training.
I think, personally, that it is also a good time, similar to the New Year’s Goal Setting challenge, to check in with ourselves about our goals and values. What is the same, what has changed, and what needs some fresh energy infused into it?
On that note, this month we are going to explore some nitty gritty topics that pertain to ALL of us, regardless of where we are in our riding journeys - the topic of Gentleness vs. Discipline. Of course, as you would assume, this will go into a lot with how we RELATE to our horses, and we will definitely be exploring that, but it also delves into another territory - how we RELATE to ourselves and the learning journey. I do not think these are unrelated. In fact, I think the kinder, yet more self-discipline we can be with ourselves, the kinder and more fair we can be with our horses. So, let’s get into it!
Our featured riding exercise this month is another exercise I (Shana) came up with as we were working on preparations to start our Simple Changes Workshop and Flying Changes course. This is an exercise that supples and prepares the horse for the flying changes, but it can also be used at the walk and trot with lower level horses. We will show you how!
Our Feldy lesson this month is a special FeldenHorse lesson which Catherine has prepared called “Pendulum Swing of the Pelvis.” I think it is a perfect accompaniment to the themes for this month, as well as the riding exercise, “Alliance”.
As always, at the end of the month we will hold a Hot Seat session where you can have Thomas review your videos of yourself riding “Alliance” for tips, feedback, and help with any difficulties you might have had.
Self-Study Courses
A Course About Straightness with Ritter Dressage
Achieve Straightness as a horse-rider unit and see the benefits in everything you do in your riding!
The Straightness Course is THE course to answer all your crookedness woes!
This is a course about achieving Straightness as a horse-rider unit. This is THE course to learn the fundamental biomechanics of straightness (and its opposite, crookedness) and how it impacts everything else you do in your riding.
The Introduction to Work in Hand Course
✔ Improve your relationship with your horse
✔ Easily teach new movements to your horse
✔ Improve your horse's balance, suppleness, coordination and body-awareness
"Hands-down” the very best way to introduce your horse to the work in hand.
Learn how to do simple transitions and exercises with your horse with coordination, communication, and confidence.
Get lifetime, fully downloadable access to the training,
The Better Dressage Through Straightness Challenge Recordings
You will get...
✔️ Recordings of all the Challenge trainings and Q&As
✔️ PDF copies of the slides and horse exercises
✔️ All recordings downloadable
✔️ Lifetime access
So that you can...
✅ UNDERSTAND the problem with crookedness, and the attributes of straightness and balance
✅ learn an exercise you can use with your horse to identify your horse's stiff and hollow side
✅ UNDERSTAND how the rider can contribute to the horse's crookedness
✅ learn an exercise you can use to diagnose your own crookedness
✅ UNDERSTAND how dressage training can be used to straighten the horse
✅ learn an exercise you can use to help straighten your horse
✅ UNDERSTAND the basis of a Straightness based method of training. Training that is better for your horse's health and better for your dressage.
All of this for only €27.
The Canter Blueprint Training
Learn more about the biomechanics of the canter and create a targeted training plan for your horse.
This training is all about the canter and the pre-requisites for a quality canter.
It will help you understand:-
✔ the training principles on which the canter is built
✔ identify the KEY areas your horse needs to improve
So you can prioritize your training work and plan HOW you will approach your training from here on out so that you can HELP your horse to canter at his best.
Get lifetime, fully downloadable access to the training, plus the recordings from the Q&As we held each day for VIP members.
All of this for only €37.
The Path to Simple and Flying Changes Challenge Recordings
Learn how to train and develop your horse so that the changes become the most logical, easy thing to do.
You will get...
✔️All the recordings to the Challenge trainings and Q&As
✔️ PDF copies of the slides and horse exercises
✔️ All recordings downloadable
✔️ Lifetime access
The Challenge Proposition...
Anyone can train their horse to do simple and flying changes.
Anyone.
❌ That means you don’t have to be a professional trainer.✅ You just need to know the pathway.
Feldenkrais Courses for Riders
FeldenFit 4-Pack (BEST DEAL!):
***Scroll down the page to purchase FeldenFit 1-4 individually***
Purchase all 4 FeldenFit Programmes and get a discount!
4 x €97 = €388
Today's Price = €297 (other currencies available)
FeldenFit 1 is the original FeldenFit program with Catherine McCrum with 30 days of daily 7-15 minute lessons. Catherine uses her knowledge as a Feldenkrais teacher and blends this with her background in sport and fitness to make a flowing sequence of exercises that enhance co-ordination, agility, suppleness and effortless power.
FeldenFit2 is the follow-up program to the original FeldenFit program. Join us and Catherine McCrum for 30 more days of daily 7-15 minute lessons. Catherine uses her knowledge as a Feldenkrais teacher and blends this with her background in sport and fitness to make a flowing sequence of exercises that enhance co-ordination, agility, suppleness and effortless power.
FeldenFit 3 is a series of 30 lessons that specifically address how to take your riding to the next level. Lessons and imagery that improve your foundation and support from the ground up, movements that free your head, neck and eyes from long-held patterns of muscular contractions, experiencing how ribs that are springy and supple impact the independence of your legs and hip joints. Clarifying the wave like oscillations of the pelvis, spine and head that make riding the more dynamic gaits smooth beyond imagination. And finally 4 specific lessons to do in the saddle, or in the barn before you get on. This is truly the rider's series!
FeldenFit 4 - The Freedom Series! FeldenFit 4 is the newest addition to the program. Catherine McCrum has designed the fourth set of 30 days of daily @15 minute FeldenFit lessons specifically for riders to help you find your true essence and break free from restriction.
FeldenFit 1
The original FeldenFit program with Catherine McCrum with 30 days of daily 7-15 minute lessons. Catherine has created a flowing sequence of exercises that enhance co-ordination, agility, suppleness and effortless power.
FeldenFit 2
FeldenFit2 is the follow-up program to the original FeldenFit program. We take a deep dive into the key concepts that we introduced in our first programme and we added the requests of the course members.
FeldenFit 3
Riders will love these sessions that clarify support from the ground up. When your feet, ankles and lower legs are well-organised, you can access the potential for both mobility and stability in your centre.
FeldenFit 4
In the newest FeldenFit program, we introduce you to the theme of finding the length through the spine, finding a direction of support downwards through the legs with free hip joints, and width through the chest.
"How Can Feldenkrais Help Riders?"
A 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 regardless of timezone or location in the world, you can do it on YOUR schedule and terms. Then, once you have completed the lesson, meet us in the Facebook group for a discussion about the lesson.
The Aware Rider Program
Parts 1 and 2. Feldenkrais with Catherine McCrum, fused with Dressage with Shana and Thomas Ritter.
What is the Aware Rider Exploration About?
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.
