Felicitas von Neumann-Cosel

Credit: Corinne Foxley Tonico do Top, a 15-year-old Lusitano stallion owned by Linda and Joe Denniston, shows bascule of his neck in the trot extension.

Understand the German term "Dehnungshaltung" to help make your horse more beautiful through self-carriage.

Credit: Mary McKenna Felicitas von Neumann-Cosel trains Roulette in piaffe in 2009.

Professional trainer Felicitas von Neumann-Cosel tells the story of the bond she formed with a special horse.

Felicitas and Tonico showing. Photo by Susan J. Stickle.

Finding a baroque horse and training him to the highest level of dressage.

Felicitas von Neumann-Cosell rides Hosanna, an 11-year-old Hanoverian mare. Hosanna shows the difference from a working trot to a more powerful and cadenced trot, with clearly more expression and change of balance toward her hindquarters. | Photo by Mary McKenna

FEI trainer Felicitas von Neumann-Cosel explains the training tools that can motivate and guide the horse to create positive tension and carry himself in a dressage frame.