Blue House Dressage & Equipilates

29/09/2024

I have a mechanical horse space available on Tuesday if anyone would like a last minute slot - 4 pm or 4.15 pm
Message me if you’d like it!

14/05/2024

Last chance to book onto a new Rider Fitness time slot!

We start tomorrow night (Wednesday 15th) at 6.30 pm .... especially for those of you who can't make the 8 am sessions!

Available via zoom if you can’t make it in person 💻

🏋️‍♀️Specific exercises to help your
🏇Exercises improve your ability to absorb your horses movement
🏃‍♀️Effective cardio specific to what you need for your goals
🤣We have fun
Plus more ...
Sometimes there is cake 🍰🍪🍩

Option to pay for 4 or 12 week blocks

👇👇👇drop me a message either here or privately if you'd like to join in

13/08/2023

Loved helping riders yesterday despite the weather being challenging! As usual I forgot to take any pictures, until this rainbow appeared, of course 🌈

01/08/2023

Thank you for your patience, new phone arrives tomorrow & SIM card replacement due this week.

I cannot log into or check the majority of my messages due to Two factor authorisation as they send a text message to my phone to log me in 🙈
So I have NO access to …

📱 phone calls

📱text messages

📱 what’s app

📧 some emails

📱instagram

💷 bank transactions

I DO have access to Facebook messenger when connected to Wi-Fi but not when I’m away from home 🏡

I DO have a temporary pay as you go SIM card so if you need a chat about something, drop me a message with your phone number & I will call you 😀

08/07/2023

Still spaces if you’d like to book. Come and see how your foot and seat influences the contact while your riding.

A common request I have is to help you keep your hand (s) still.

But can you guess what the most common issue I help you with?
PAIN
Are you in pain while riding or afterwards?

You will leave with some quick exercises that you can do before riding!

Click on the link 👇to book

https://calendly.com/claire-bluehousepilates/unmounted-workshop

20/06/2023

NEW DATE for workshop ... SUNDAY 9TH JULY at 9AM

Session 2 has been postponed due to us having a poorly puppy!

In this session you will learn how your foot and seat influences your contact.
Do you have one hand that crosses over your horses neck?
Then this workshop is for you 🏇
Click on the link to book …
https://calendly.com/claire.../unmounted-workshop

13/06/2023

Session 2 is taking place next Tuesday evening kindly hosted by East Durham Equine Spa ... 20th June

"Foot, seat, contact ... learn how each are linked to improve your force absorption particularly during sitting trot"

Do you lose your stirrups?
Do you feel you can apply aids with one leg but the other?
Are your hands a pair or does you feel you use one hand too much?
Do you look down when riding?

If you have said YES to any of the above, then this session is ideal for you. Isolate movements, focus on them off your horse to then be able to move better once back mounted 🏇🏇🏇

Book here:
https://calendly.com/claire.../unmounted-workshop

08/06/2023

If you stop breathing or your heart rate increases with the anticipation of something about to happen, your horses heart rate will shoot up & your horse will be on high alert, ready for that lion to attack!

🏇Do you tense up, stop breathing when the bell goes prior to jumping or the car horn t***s?
🏇 How often do you blame the horse for spooking in the arena when they were great in the warm up?

Working with Claire Dryden will help you, teaching you to breathe and move well to allow your horse to work with you. You can do this by …

🤸‍♀️ attending a workshop
🤸‍♀️ 121 mounted session with your own horse
🤸‍♀️ weekly face to face Oilates sessions
🤸‍♀️ Online membership for 4 sessions a week

"I believe this study makes sense, I can also see how riders and people touching animals have an electron exchange from the animals being grounded…

Recent studies conducted by the Institute of Heart-Math provide a clue to explain the two-way ′′healing′′ that occurs when we're close to horses.
According to researchers, the heart has an electromagnetic field larger than the brain: a magnetometer can measure the energy field of the heart that radiates from 2.4 meters to 3 meters around the human body.

While this is certainly significant, perhaps more impressive than the electromagnetic field projected by the heart of a horse is five times larger than that of a human being (imagine an electromagnetic sphere around the horse) and it can influence straight into our own heart rate.

Horses are also likely to have what science has identified as a "coherent′′ heart rate (heart rate pattern) that explains why we can feel better when we're close to them. Studies have found a coherent heart pattern or HRV to be a solid measure of well-being and consistent with emotional states of calm and joy-that is, we exhibit such patterns when we feel positive emotions.

A coherent heart pattern is indicative of a system that can recover and adapt to stressful situations very efficiently. Many times, we just need to be in the presence of horses to feel a sense of well-being and peace.

In fact, research shows that people experience many physiological benefits by interacting with horses, including lower blood pressure and heart rate, higher beta-endorphins (neurotransmitters acting as pain suppressors), decreased stress levels, decreased feelings of anger, hostility, tension and anxiety, better social working; and greater feelings of empowerment, confidence, patience and self-efficacy."

21/05/2023

My turn to take some time out to enhance my skills. If you’d like to learn more about your riding, join me on a workshop. Next one is this Tuesday at East Durham Equine Spa

Do you feel when riding or when working with your coach that you’d like to pause a moment in time so you can feel and digest what they are saying?
This will allow you to improve one movement which will allow you to improve your riding whether for better marks or less pain.

No mechanical horse at this one but watch this space for some dates coming up.

Click on link below to book 👇👇👇

https://calendly.com/claire-bluehousepilates/unmounted-workshop