Tips to Become "One" With Your Horse
Author and dressage trainer Dominique Barbier offers advice on how to be more focused when working with your dressage horse.
Rhythm
What is the Difference Between Rhythm and Tempo in Dressage?
Heather Blitz explains the difference between these two terms used commonly in dressage.
How to Help Your Horse Maintain Balance in Canter
Lisa Pierson answers a reader question and explains how to balance your horse in the canter with exercises to improve engagement.
Increase Your Horse's Responsiveness to Your Aids
Sabine Rijssenbeek explains how to improve this aspect of communication between horse and rider.
How to Use the Dressage Pyramid of Training
Use this conceptual tool to help your riding in a practical way.
Training The Overachieving Dressage Horse
You need a variety of strategies to train this type of horse.
How to Assess for Progress in Dressage
Jan Brons explains steps you can take to avoid frustration for you and your horse as you move forward in your training.
Small Steps to Piaffe with Shelly Francis, Part 1
How to develop a strong foundation for a challenging upper-level movement.
My Favorite Exercise: Canter Transitions
These transitions, when done properly, keep the horse forward, loose and working through his body.
From Dinky Trot to Fancy Trot with Mica Mabragaña
This exercise can be used for horses of all ages and levels to strengthen the topline, create throughness and to test the honesty of aids.
Activate Your Dressage Horse’s Motor
Learn what correct activity is and how the rider can use her aids to activate her horse’s motor.
How Can I Keep My Horse Bending in the Walk Pirouette?
Kristina Harrison answers this reader question.
The Rider's Role in Self-Carriage
Lendon Gray explains how the use of passive aids can improve a horse's self-carriage.
How to Distinguish Between the Various Kinds of Trot in Dressage
Melonie Kessler explains the difference between working, medium, lengthened and extended trot.
The Fundamentals of Rhythm in Dressage Work
Eckart Meyners explains how to establish the young horse’s natural rhythm under the weight of the rider.
The 10-Track Mind: A Dressage Lesson with Lilo Fore
10 key points for riding like a dressage professional
The Science Behind Equitation
A book excerpt from The Alchemy of Lightness by Dominique Barbier and Maria Katsamanis
The Elements of Classical Dressage Training
A top dressage judge reminds us to stick to the classical principles in our training.
Unmounted Exercises to Improve Your Ability to Sit the Trot
Three exercises to help loosen your hips.
Kathleen Raine: From Rhythm to Cadence
Kathleen Raine discusses how to make your horse move with better rhythm and more expression.
Kyra Kyrklund's Smaller Steps for Greater Balance
Dressage Olympian Kyra Kyrklund shares a simple solution to common balance problems with horses at any level.
Develop the Quality of Submission in Your Dressage Horse with Helen Langehanenberg
German dressage star Helen Langehanenberg explains the training quality of submission and shares how you can develop it in your horse.
