Ritter Dressage Self-Study Courses
Perfect for those who want to learn at their own pace.
Our Self-Study Courses.
Our self-study courses are self-paced versions of our complete courses. These do not include any feedback or support. As an option, however, to upgrade the experience, you can add-on the Q&A subscription to get access to our bi-weekly LIVE Q&A sessions to get all your questions answered directly from Dr. Thomas Ritter and our team of qualified assistants.
Classical Lessons from the Old Masters
NEWLY ADDED! Self-Study Course
Follow in the footsteps of the old masters and explore the history, lasting legacies, and key teachings you can apply to your own riding. This should be fun and interesting, and offer many opportunities to deepen your understanding of the historical development of dressage as well as the workings of gymnastic training.
A deep-dive exploration of 13 Old Masters plus a bonus section on the Spanish Riding School: Nuno Oliveira, Faverot de Kerbrech, Gustav Steinbrecht, Friedrich von Krane, François Baucher, Louis Seeger, Ernst Friedrich Seidler, Manoel Carlos de Andrade, François Robichon de la Guérinière, Antoine de Pluvinel, William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle, Alois Podhajsky, Dom Diogo de Bragança
Each section includes a Masterclass Training and most include 2 riding exercises.
€250
Young Horse Training Course
NEW Self-Study Course
Build a solid foundation with your horse through theory, mindset, and practice. This complete training system features 50+ progressive exercises, training principles, and work-in-hand techniques designed specifically for younger and lower-level horses. Develop balance, understanding, and suppleness from the ground up. Lifetime access.
€297
or payment plans available
Half-Halt Explained
NEW Self-Study Course
Finally, everything you needed to master this fundamental skill. With theory and practical lessons to develop timing, feel, seat and aids, as well as detailed troubleshooting. This course is a complete system setting out how to use the half-halt with the finesse and tact of a Classical Dressage Master.
€147
or payment plans available
The Introduction to Work in Hand Course
Learn how to do simple transitions and exercises with your horse with coordination, communication, and confidence.
Get lifetime, fully downloadable access to the trainings.
€97
or payment plans available
Topline Makeover
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
Timing of the Aids Self-Study Course
The biomechanics-based roadmap that helps you cover the core foundations of timing, application, and combination of the aids, without feeling lost, overwhelmed, or in over your head.
€297
or payment plans available
Dressage Principles Based on Biomechanics - Masterclass Series
Thomas and Shana Ritter have identified 12 basic training principles which have proven to be fundamental in their own riding. These principles bring dynamic life to the way they approach the training with their horses.
€150
or payment plans available
A Course About Straightness with Ritter Dressage
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.
€297
or payment plans available
Training the Flying Changes Self-Study Course
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. This is a course about learning through implementation; not just learning the theory.
€397
or payment plans available
The Double Bridle Camp
The 4-step compassionate rider’s method guides you to finer riding and communication with the Double Bridle, and The Double Bridle Camp has everything you need to start. This self-paced, lifetime-access course includes four modules with videos, audio files, and PDFs—giving you time to absorb, implement, and experiment with the techniques you’ve always wanted to master.
€449
or payment plans available
Intro to Stirrup-Stepping
You will learn the subtle art of Stirrup-Stepping, a weight aid which originated in the tradition of the Spanish Riding School, in this mini-course as an incredibly effective and helpful training tool. With 23 videos, 5 patterns, PDFs, and audio files. This course will help you make sense of it all and get started implementing it into your riding.
€100
or payment plans available
Contact LITE
This self-study course is the perfect starting point for establishing correct, elastic contact and getting your horse “on the bit,” even if you don’t know where to begin (and you find Dressage intimidating). With three full-length modules, riding exercises, theory, Feldenkrais lessons, imagery practices, and curated yoga, you’ll gain the tools and confidence to progress at your own pace.
€197
or payment plans available
Rider Development Series
This series of nine engaging trainings with Catherine McCrum, Shana Ritter, and Thomas Ritter explores the ongoing growth of the rider, addressing topics like learning styles, rider imagery, mindfulness, and redefining traditional rules to better suit individual horses and riders.
€119
The Dressage Biomechanics Framework
A simpler, smarter, friendlier, biomechanics-based way to approach the training of your horse and FIX (for once and for all) the most pervasive problems all riders encounter in their training (without the overwhelm and frustration that eats away at your confidence and love for Dressage).
€250
or payment plans available
Applying Dressage Biomechanics
This 6-week course is a follow-up to the Dressage Biomechanics Framework course. You will get to experience the MAGIC of how these elements work together cohesively through creatively-inspired exercises which incorporate all (or most) of the elements together.
€250
or payment plans available
Dressage Biomechanics Framework Self-Study Package - 20% Discount
This is a package of two self-study courses. You can do them at your own pace, begin any time. Go through the materials as many times as you like.
⭐️ PLUS: You get a Bonus Masterclass Recording: How to Target the Horse’s Body Areas with Specific Gymnastic Exercises! ⭐️
€400
or payment plans available
How to Begin Longreining Mini Course
In this mini course, Dr. Thomas Ritter introduces the fundamentals of long reining, including how to introduce it to a horse for the first time. Accompanied by a Masterclass Training and an ebook guide, the course explores how long reining enhances the bond between horse and rider, improves timing and rein aids, and serves as both a diagnostic and training tool for refining movement and addressing specific challenges.
€39
Developing Lengthenings Course
This self-study mini-course by Dr. Thomas Ritter brings hope to your medium trot struggles with classical riding theory and six arena exercises designed to help your horse lengthen in both trot and canter. With detailed explanations, precise aids, and a focus on building strength and compression in the hind legs, this course provides the tools to transform hectic guesswork into magical, effortless lengthening—on your own schedule, with lifetime access.
€29
The Happy, Healthy, Horse Course
This self-paced course offers a collection of progressive exercises to help you and your horse build a balanced, harmonious partnership. Taught by dressage trainers Thomas & Shana Ritter and Feldenkrais Practitioner Catherine McCrum, it includes rider and horse exercises, theory training, and unique Feldenkrais-inspired lessons.
€37
The Supple Ribs Mini Course
For many riders, the horse and rider’s ribcages are not on the training radar at all aside from some consideration about bending. In fact, ribcage suppleness for both horse AND rider is vital for pretty much everything we do in the training, particularly when we are talking about keeping ourselves and our horses sound over the long term. This is a whole mini-course that is sure to enrich your understanding and application of ribcage suppleness into every sphere of your riding.
€39
The OTTB Renewal
6-module self-study course designed to help transform your racehorse from a front-end speed machine into a balanced riding partner working from your aids. Through theory lessons, riding exercises, work-in-hand, Feldenkrais, yoga, and imagery practices, this holistic program supports both horse and rider in developing suppleness, balance, and connection.
€89
The Pre-Canter Course
This three-module self-study course prepares your horse for a quality canter by focusing on biomechanics, straightness, suppleness, and strength. With 10 ridden exercises, stirrup stepping patterns, and bonus materials, you'll gain step-by-step guidance through videos, diagrams, and written instructions to improve your canter departs.
€99
The Counter Canter Course
This self-paced online course provides comprehensive guidance on mastering the counter-canter, covering its purpose, prerequisites, seat and aids, and strategies for common challenges. With 11 progressive exercises, you'll learn how to introduce, develop, and refine the counter-canter for you and your horse.
