Dressage in the Desert

06/05/2022

You can audit with live streaming.

Save the Date! Charles is returning to Landrum, South Carolina for 3 days of exciting education. Join us June 10, 11, 12. Livestream purchase includes UNLIMITED access to the video replay!

03/07/2022

10 Things You Might Not Know About Equine Herpesvirus-1 (EHV) and Equine Herpes Myeloencephalopathy (EHM) EHV-1 is a common virus in the horse population. Horses are typically exposed to EHV-1 early in life, with 80-90% of horses reportedly infected by two years of age. The virus may not make the ho...

02/23/2022

Absolutely,!

High Standards---

Jack LeGoff actually did NOT say that being able to sit the gaits with harmony, suppleness and elasticity was a GOAL in the quest to become a good rider.

Jack LeGoff said that being able to sit the gaits with harmony, suppleness and elasticity was a PREREQUISITE in the quest to become a good rider.

Mentally chew on that for a moment or two----

02/03/2022

This is a USAWE Rated show to be held at the J6 Equestrian Center, on Williams Rd in Benson AZ. There are a few overnight stalls available on a first come first serve basis. Levels 1 through 7 will be offered. Judge is the Honorable Amy Star, "R" Judge Technical Delegate is Ashley Bowers The show of...

01/05/2022

10/13/2021

Free 5-Day “Simply Feldenkrais for Riders” Challenge
October 18-22, 2021

Inherent in every person is the capacity to learn new ways of doing things. Riding is a learning activity, and if you are straining and forcing while riding, you aren't learning. The less effort you use in your action, the more you notice, and the more you notice, the more you can change your action.

Feldenkrais is mindfulness in action, and this is what it can do for your riding:

• Develop science-based strategies to learn what the talented riders just "Do."
• Change your movement patterns and improve your riding.
• Address your habitual way of moving and open up for the new.
• Learn how to make choices with awareness while riding.
• Begin acting with choice rather than compulsion.
• Experience how the smallest movement in one part of the body changes the whole body, and how doing less can get you more.
• Achieve better coordination, focus, and harmony with yourself and your horse.

When you know what you do, you can do what you want. Make the impossible possible, the possible probable and the probable automatic.

The less effort you make in your riding, the quieter you are in your mind, the more you notice and the more you notice, the more you know what to change

Become the rider your horse is waiting for!

Sign up here -
https://courses.artisticdressage.com/2021-simply-feldenkrais-challenge

09/30/2021

Charles wonderful and correct insight of the foundations of riding.