It's Challenge time...

FREE 3 Day Training

19 - 21 March, 2024

The Goldilocks Zone, getting the contact 'just right'

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The Goldilocks Zone

Getting the contact 'just right'

In this FREE 3 day training you will learn to discover the "Goldilocks Zone" of correct contact...
🌟 where it is not too much (behind the bit),
🌟  not too little (above the bit),
🌟  but JUST RIGHT ("on the bit"). 

We will share with you our no-tears approach to finding the right contact
using biomechanically-based principles and classical techniques.

🐻 No Gadgets!
🐻 No Rollkur!
🐻 No Horsie Bondage!
🐻 No Hold and Drive, No Spank & Crank, and No Sad Horses!

If you’re experiencing any of the following problems, then this 3-day training is designed for you:

1. Still struggling with getting your horse consistently on the bit
2. Still struggling with your horse dipping behind the contact, behind the bit, and behind the leg.
3. Can’t get your horse to stretch open and out, reaching correctly for the bit.
4. You find yourself falling into bad habits of working backwards with the reins.
5. You love the concept of the horse truly stretching into the contact but you don’t know how to create it.
6. You are a little confused because there is so much conflicting advice out there about what is correct.
7. It feels like you understand what to do, but it still doesn’t work. You’re missing something invisible.

If you’re a heart-centered rider who loves dressage, and wants to improve your contact, but you are disgusted by advice that just tells you to hold MORE and drive MORE, slap on the draw reins, or crank your horse’s head into position, you NEED this 3-day Challenge Experience….

PLUS, IT’S ABSOLUTELY FREE!

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New and Upcoming Courses

Aware Rider 2024

Join us as we go down the rabbit hole of exploration of what it means to be in relationship with our horses, ourselves, and the training process.
Do you feel like there is more to riding than just the 'riding' part? 
Maybe you have even considered that you might need to be more mindful, or do a 'bit of work' on yourself so that you can be happier as a rider, and to be a better partner for your horse. 

In this, our fourth course of The Aware Rider series, Thomas and Shana Ritter, Catherine Mc Crum, Charlotte Zetterberg and Yvonne Lübcke are delighted to continue the ‘conversation about the conversation you have with your horse’.
 
The 11- week course is all about how to ‘be’ with your horse so they really enjoy being with you. The aim is a happy horse who actively seeks contact with you AND enjoys the training process. And who doesn’t want that!
 
Combining an exploration of mind-body theories with the practice of Feldenkrais lessons, you will learn new and practical ways to develop your sensory awareness, be more present in the moment, and communicate with your horse so that they feel heard, respected and understood.

We will be concentrating on developing the particular qualities that create the foundations for a joyful partnership between horse and human. There will be six live meetings on zoom with Catherine, Thomas and Shana and, new for 2024, we will also hold two live panel discussions with surprise guests on The Aware Rider themes that most interest you.

In addition, Catherine will teach a second “Awareness Through Movement” Feldenkrais lesson, and Charlotte Zetterberg is creating a series of Feldenkrais audio lessons designed especially for this course called ‘Lose your Mind and Come to your Senses’. And finally, Yvonne Lübcke will be bringing her unique and invaluable insights to equine communication.
Intrigued? Join us!
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The Ritterize Membership

The Ritterize Membership

(previously EOTM) 

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March 2024:


Thrust vs. Carriage
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Thrust vs. Carriage

A question that comes up in many of our Q&As is about the balance between thrust vs. carriage. So this month we will hold a Masterclass Training on Thrust vs. Carriage: How does this work biomechanically and how can we best work with this in the training of our horses?

The featured exercise this month is called “Super Sonic” and ties into the theme for this month. Even more so when you see that we will be putting two top riders on the Hot Seat this month: Charlotte DuJardin and Charlotte Fry. We will be analyzing two recent tests of theirs and breaking it all down into fine detail.

We had to reschedule last month’s mindset issue on Insecurities. It will be held on March 6th.
Regardless of whether it comes from someone who has belittled you, an accident or bad situation, or a deep-seated anxiety or concern that you are not “good enough”... there are some key mindset shifts that can help you to step outside of the habitual patterns of thinking that you have and explore new possibilities. Catherine McCrum will be joining us for this discussion and we are so looking forward to it!

At the end of the month, during our Hot Seats Session, we will review several members’ videos of themselves riding the “Super Sonic” exercise for this month and give tips and feedback. Whether we review your video or you are just watching, you are sure to come away with some tips that will help you in your riding.

Last but not least, you are going to love this month’s Feldenkrais lesson called “Independent Legs free Hip Joints”. In order to enable the horse to express their gaits, it is important that your seat can move freely with the horse while also simultaneously supporting the horse. This is only possible when you are truly independent with your hips. You’re going to love this lesson!

What a fun month we have in store for you! I can’t wait!

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.

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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,

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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.

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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.

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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

✔️ L
ifetime 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 don’t have to have a degree in changes (Tip: there isn’t one).
❌ You don’t have to have special talent.
❌ You don’t have to have magic.

✅ You just need to know the pathway.
✅ You need to know how to develop the horse so that the changes become the most logical, easy thing for your horse to do.
 
👉 And we are going to show you how to do that.
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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.

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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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.

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"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.

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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.

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