Gillian Muir Dressage Training and Riding Instruction

Gillian Muir Dressage Training and Riding Instruction Achieve your equestrian dreams, whether in the show ring or safely on a trail.

06/02/2023

And the cutter to open hay bales stays in the feed room!!!

I would like to send a heartfelt thank you to my students and client's that supported me through this strange time. As t...
04/29/2020

I would like to send a heartfelt thank you to my students and client's that supported me through this strange time. As the state begins to loosen restrictions and the numbers have proven to not be nearly as frightening as projected, I think it's time to do my part to help get our economy rolling again ;-) (WR Scout by Pilot says let's get to work!) I will be keeping to one student at a time and request that everyone wash their hands before and after their time at the barn. Shared tack will be cleaned between uses so extra time between lessons will be added. Of course, I respect the wishes of anyone who is not yet comfortable with this activity and will always look forward to seeing you at a later date. Please, message me to set up your lesson time. Thank you for your continued support! Love and good health to you all!

03/20/2020

What the world needs right now is a solid half-halt on the outside rein.

After a wonderful "birthday week", I feel the need to extend a thank you and heartfelt appreciation to my fabulous clien...
03/09/2020

After a wonderful "birthday week", I feel the need to extend a thank you and heartfelt appreciation to my fabulous clients and students. You guys rock! I'm very proud of what we have accomplished and we ain't stopping yet! Love you!

01/22/2020

A good day to lunge. Be safe, everyone!

01/21/2020

Conference, afternoon session Nuggets: 1. Never gets old fashioned to ride to bit 2. Try not to sit too deep in pirouette if horse tends to shut down. Canter depart every stride. 3. School shortening and lengthening reins. Make sure reconnection is honest, shoulder-fore can help. 4. As horse becomes more schooled, watch any tension in riders back may confuse horse. When horse over does, check yourself. 5. Shoulder-fore not necessarily ridden but must be able to execute at any moment. 6. If don't have connection forward between seat and hand, half-halt will never work. "Too light" or spotting out bit, looses everything. 7. Thinking Haunches-in for pirouette can lead to crookedness. Think Shoulder-in. 8. Mount with a plan but be ready and willing to modify or recalibrate that plan when the horse shows you it needs something different. Gather information in warm up to better train horse 9. Can test limits but don't punish by keeping them there 10. Play around with power in gaits, see what he can handle. 11. School piaffe forward, riding to bit, then think passage out for better transition out. No unbalanced large step out 12. Collection is more about stifles and sacrum than hocks 13. Warm up create adjustable neck and tempo which can not go without contact especially in stretch 14. Zig zag don't rush half pass to make change. What horse doesn't quicken tempo to get it over with. Then end is the hard part. 15. Pay attention to warm up so horse is physically and mentally prepared for work 16. Don't get greedy with tempi changes. Take you time before adding more. Let the horse tell you when he is ready.

Exercises to try: 1. Lighten inside leg on turn and see what happens 2. Counter canter with bend to lead then counter bend, come out and small, quick canter. (Load the outside hind leg spring)

01/21/2020

Conference nuggets, morning sessions: 1. control tempo. The horse must always think forward. 2. Don't drill until horse is tired. Reward good work and be satisfied. 3. Half halt too long creates danger of horse feeling claustrophobic and getting defensive. 4. OWN the tempo. Watch speed, it is not impulsion. 5. Bending work makes the horse straight. 6. Hands too high encourages negative indirect rein. 7. No recipe, must read the horse's body. Ride for what the horse needs 8. Some leg-yielding in warm up walk for better prep for work. 9. If horse is too light in contact forward transitions without speeding up to get him more honest. If horse changes neck, you don't have the back. 10. Stay loose in saddle for piaffe passage. Don't drive but think forward to bit. 11. Passage: base of neck extra round to bit, not backwards. 12. Baby steps every time consistently before ask for more 13. Not half-halt but half-transition. Soften as soon as feel weight shift. 14. Collection in extension and extension in collection. 15. More leg to come back than forward 16. Elasticity and engagement from outside hind leg in canter. Must set that spring in hind legs for jump in canter. 17. Vacilate between power and looseness in gait. 18. LOVE THE HORSE. LOVE THE SPORT!

Exercises to try: 1. long side, normal canter to lengthen to normal to pirouette canter forward out of corner. 2. Shoulder-in out of leg-yields. If Shoulder-in develops tilt, change bend to renvers to correct. 3. Turn on haunches, straighten, 1/2 steps 4. Few steps of medium canter, then close leg to ask more but uphill half-halt to stay the same with more engagement (with soft rein)

12/03/2019

For my South Florida riders: 25° drop in temps. This is a good day to make use of lunge lines and round pens!

10/18/2019

Ever wondered how to take your test-riding up a notch, to gain those valuable extra marks? Carl Hester shared some golden nuggets of training advice during his dressage masterclass at the Royal County of Berkshire Polo Club that can help every rider pull in some extra points in the ring

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