Basics of Relaxation, Energy, and Balance Mini-Series
The Sweet Spot is a ‘just right’ combination of Relaxation, Energy, & Balance where you and your horse agree "This feels nice!" It’s also a place of lightness, ease, and freedom of movement. It’s crucial that you are able to talk to your horse about relaxation, energy, and balance in order to effect your horse’s way of moving.
This mini-series is a great place to start, and shows you key videos to develop these conversations with your horse and will show what a powerful effect they can have.
You can also look for the bigger category: Sweet Spot of Biomechanics for more videos on this.
If you want to go much deeper into this and get a lot of support doing it, I recommend the Finding The Sweet Spot of Healthy Biomechanics course
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Relaxation Is Everything - September 2012
Karen teaches a student with a lovely thoroughbred stallion to find greater clarity, harmony, and relaxation. You will see the simple, yet profound way Karen helped them achieve more by doing less. This video is excellent for anyone who feels like they have excess tension between themselves and t...
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Energy On Line - Sept 2011
Karen plays with a student's horse to demonstrate how to improve the conversations about Energy and Relaxation. These ingredients are necessary in order to begin to find the Sweet Spot. You will see how by just changing the horse's state of readiness and relaxation also changed his quality of gai...
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Basic Alignment Exercise Explained - Mar 2018
This video explains, in a nutshell, one of the most important concepts in the Dressage Naturally program: The Basic Alignment Exercise. Karen uses a clear visual example to explain it. This exercise is key to breaking free of trying to ‘hold your horse straight’ or ‘hold the bend on’ with stronge...
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Basic Alignment Exercise at the Trot Laurel - Sept 2019
Karen coaches a rider through the Basic Alignment Exercise for the first time. Basic Alignment Exercise is one of the most powerful and fundamental exercises in Dressage Naturally. Once learned, this principle can be used to bring better balance and freedom of movement during basic and advanced m...
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Posture and Partnership On Line - Feb 2012
Karen helps us gain greater success with her posture exercises on line. Learn how to spend less time searching and more time enjoying. Karen reminds us how her exercises, and foundational exercise of Circle Game fit together. This video is good for anyone playing with the D,N exercises online
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Better Results Through Confidence and Clarity - Dec 2016
This is a video of a live demonstration Karen did as a co-presenter at an educational event. She helps this rider be more confident and clear with what she already knows so she can get better results in one session. This video is a great example of Karen’s powerful and empowering teaching methods...
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Connecting to the Circuit Of Energy - Monty and Breanne - Aug 2011
Karen talks about connecting with the circuit of energy as Breanne rides Karen's Lipizzaner, Monty. You will see the difference between a 'whatever' gait, an actively stretched gait and a working gait, and the transitions from one to another. You will also see how quickly the flow of energy can b...
