2024 Intermediate Work-in-Hand BETA

Intermediate Work-in-Hand with Ritter Dressage

Progressing the work-in-hand training of the horse, the Classical Way.

This is a brand new, never-before-offered course being released for the first time in 2024.

“Work in hand creates a closer bond between human and horse, as they work quite literally “side by side”, and the human has to expend at least as much energy as the horse.”

This special course continues where the Introduction to Work-in-Hand course left off. You will learn how to use lateral movements such as shoulder-in, haunches-in, renvers, half pass, and pirouette renversée to develop your horse’s agility, suppleness, balance, and collection further. From there, you will then learn to develop the half steps which will eventually lead to the piaffe and passage. We will wrap up the course with introducing work-in-hand with a double bridle and using “living pillars” to develop the collection further. This 10-week beta course includes customized feedback with 6 Live Q&As and 5 bi-weekly HotSeat Sessions.

As a beta course member, your input and questions will be integrated into the creation of the course. This way we make sure we create the most complete course on the topic as is possible AND you can be confident that you will get what YOU need out of this course!

The course begins August 23, 2024

"These courses address detail of riding instruction not even considered traditionally. They provide bridges between what you think you know over waters to cross you didn't even know existed & you'll be able to do so at your own pace having lifetime access to complete and review. Without a doubt you'll learn things you did not realise were missing from your riding education”  - Karen Veronneau

This is a Beta course - what you need to know

As this is the first time we are ever teaching this course, we create the course content as we teach it. That means, there may be adjustments to the course content release schedule, the Q&A schedule, the Hot Seat Schedule, etc. as we move through the course.

This happens as we accommodate the ideas generated by teaching the course. (And sometimes weather conditions, etc. can hold up filming modules etc).

Mostly we find that there is nearly always something more we wish to add, once we get into it, and sometimes this means we need to adjust the schedule accordingly. Please be aware that this is a possibility, but it will be to make the course better! 

Also remember that you sign-up for this beta round at price reduction in exchange for your feedback, and permission to share your success story with the world at the end of the course.

Upon successful completion of the beta round and completing the below requirements, you will be granted lifetime access to the course content of this program and will be invited to participate in the next run of the course run for FREE (not including hot seats) . After that point, you will be invited to participate in any future releases of the course although a small admin fee may apply.

Beta Round Student Requirements:

1. The beta course requires a one-time investment of €497.
   2. A testimonial for the course: written or video. Optional alternative: be featured in a case study interview before the beginning of the next course.
   3. Complete the course and stay on schedule. Attend the Q&As or watch the recordings afterwards.
   4. Complete the pre-course and end-of-the-course Questionnaire. Let us know: where you were when you started and where you ended up. What did you like? What didn’t you like? Was anything confusing? Was anything missing?

Need Help with the Checkout process?

Email the Ritter Team at [email protected]