Here are the book giveaway winners, and then some interesting links! Raffle Winners Thank you everyone who entered the raffle for the book, Joey: How a Blind Rescue Horse Helped Others Learn to See! (For more about the book, see the blog post here.) Tonight I randomly “drew” the 5 winners using the raffle website, and drumroll … Continue reading
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Figure X Pattern for Sitting and Posting Trot
Here is a handy exercise I’ve been doing with some of my riders lately. Figure X Pattern for Sitting and Posting Trot (That is a Figure X in an arena. ) The exercise: For half the Figure X, do sitting trot. For the other half, do posting trot. They should try to make the transitions … Continue reading
Sitting Trot: Lesson Plan by Linda
One of the goals of this blog is to help people pass certification to become a therapeutic riding instructor, and it is so neat to hear when this happens! A reader named Linda wrote me several weeks ago about how much this blog helped her prepare, then followed up by letting me know she passed her certification … Continue reading
Fun Video Friday: The Sitting Trot
I know it’s Saturday…but I like the title’s alliteration. Today’s videos are about the sitting trot! Video 1: How to Improve your Sitting Trot. Some great teaching techniques. Video 2: The Sitting Trot. Starts with some good hows, and adds some good whys at 2 minutes in. Video 3: Riding the Sitting Trot. Some more … Continue reading