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The Art of Riding
Horsemanship Through Feel and Release

NEW: DESIGN YOUR OWN Clinic or Workshop!

See below for Karen's most popular Focus Sessions (FS). Contact Karen about the ones that interest you the most and plan a coaching session, workshop or clinic to suit your needs and budget. You can also just sign up for a clinic or coaching.

Many other topics available!
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Focus:  Your horse uses his diagonals (a diagonal is the front and opposite hind foot) in most maneuvers for balance and lightness. Ride those diagonals, and develop balance for your comfort and your horse's over any terrain.  Make the right thing easy!

“There were two things that happened that I can say were the most important things that helped me to improve my horsemanship – that being the proper way to sit on a horse, and learning to feel of those feet” Bill Dorrance, in "True Horsemanship Through Feel", page 40.

“When you’re walking along in good form, your body is fairly balanced on the horse, and it’s sort of like it is when you are standing on the ground” Bill Dorrance, in "True Horsemanship Through Feel", page 42.

“It was pretty important when I learned to put that foot someplace as it was coming up, because that’s when it hardly weighed anything. I could move it one way or the other and the horse didn’t offer to resist at all. He needed a place to put that foot down anyway” Bill Dorrance, in "True Horsemanship Through Feel", page 43.

Details of session content are customized to the particular rider/horse combinations in any given coaching session.

Many other topics available!
If you do not see a topic you hoped to cover, request it :)
 

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