Free online mini-course · Starts October 31
Taking our first steps in long reining together
Would you like to develop your horse’s balance, strength and suppleness without the weight of a rider? Come and discover long reining with us. In six free online lessons, Astrid guides you step by step, from a good foundation to your first lateral movement together. With extra practice days in between, you’ll have time to explore, understand each other better and enjoy making progress.
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6 lessons · 6 practice days · starting together on October 31
Here’s what we’ll discover together
We’ll start with a good foundation and build up together to your first lateral movement. A new lesson opens every other day. The day in between is yours to practise together, try something again or simply take a moment to feel what this step brings you both.
You can open the lessons below to see what’s inside and watch a short preview.
We begin with preparation. You’ll discover how to introduce your horse to the position, equipment and aids you’ll use in long reining.
How do you let your horse know it’s time to walk on and then halt again? Astrid shows you how to develop your body language and aids step by step.
You’ll discover how to coordinate your posture and rein aids, and explore steering with the outside rein. This helps your horse understand when you want to go straight ahead and when you want to turn a corner.
On the circle, you’ll explore how your body language and inside and outside reins work together. We’ll now also introduce bend through your horse’s body on the circle.
You’ll build up to changing rein gently, focusing on changing your position, keeping things calm and maintaining contact, while putting the body language and rein contact you’ve already learned into practice.
The previous lessons come together in your first lateral movement. Astrid shows you how to build up to shoulder-out in a clear, logical way to improve bend through your horse’s body and strengthen the inside hind leg.
Learn with your own horse — and from each other
During the mini-course, horse lovers everywhere will be getting started with their own horses. In the community, you can share what you’re discovering, ask questions and follow other horse-and-human partnerships. You’ll learn not only from Astrid, but also from the different horses, questions and experiences within the group.
Explore for yourself
Watch the lessons and try the exercises with your horse.
Ask questions
Share anything you’re finding tricky as you practise.
Video feedback
If you’d like, share a training video for us to give feedback on during the course.
Learn alongside others
Learn from their questions, experiences and the feedback they receive.
An example from a previous mini-course
Horse Transformation
“For shoulder-out, I’d see if you can first follow a straight line until the forehand reaches the track. At the moment, you’re doing shoulder-out on the inner track, which means you have a little more to manage yourself.”
An excerpt from our feedback on a submitted training video.
Participant
“Thank you! Plenty more to learn in the weeks ahead. Thanks so much for all your help and useful tips. It’s so motivating to get stuck in and practise.”
Another participant
“I’m not very good with videos, unfortunately, but we’re enjoying practising together and we both love it. The videos in this community and the feedback are really helpful, too.”
There’s no need to film yourself. You can follow all the lessons without Facebook, too — you’ll receive the lesson links by email.
Will you and your horse join us?
On October 31, we’ll take the first step together. You’ll receive a new lesson every other day, with plenty of time in between to practise at your own pace. You can follow everything from your familiar surroundings, whenever it suits you and your horse.
The free lessons are available from October 31 through the evening of November 11.