Woodland Dressage: Awakening the Equestrian Feel: FUN

AWAKENING THE EQUESTRIAN FEEL: FUN leads to FEEL When our body is Alive, when we have Lightness and Feel, and thanks to that we experience increasing softness, we can find ourselves in moment of PURE FUN. The PURE FUN is the expression of PURE FEEL. It is pure, because it is only the enjoyment free

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Woodland Dressage: Awakening the Equestrian Feel: SOFTNESS

Real Softness comes from Being Really Alive.  Being Really Alive doesn’t mean just to be alive. It means to be aware of your life, and aware of the Life Energy (NA) in your body, and how your body functions thanks to NA and spontaneously yet automatically connects with NA anytime you are about to experience or

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Woodland Dressage: Awakening the Equestrian Feel: LIGHTNESS and FEELING

Horses respond to the FEEL, not to the cues taught by repetitions. If you want your horse to respond only to the receptions, you have to kill in your horse the feel and ability to connect with you. To put it in simple words: if you wish your horse to respond ONLY to the cues,

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Woodland Dressage: Awakening the Equestrian Feel: ALIVE Body, ALIVE Hands

What is constantly coming to me whenever I teach is the ABSOLUTE NEED for every rider to awaken their EQUESTRIAN FEEL in order to ride, do groundwork or simply be with their horses. The below video is the first one from the series of 4 videos that I decided to dedicate FULLY and ESPECIALLY to

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A good teacher does not give to a student anything ready-made. A good teacher does not do anything on the student’s behalf. A good teacher will act through the Reality and will show the student the way. A good teacher will show the direction and will create the environment in which taking steps is easier

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Straightness on the Circle with Cour d’Alaine

Trainings that take place at the walk are my favorite ones. I love the slowness of this gait, and the meditation aura it creates for the horse and the rider. Many things are blocked for riders and horses, because they are done in disconnection. One of the first signs of disconnection is hastiness. When the horse is

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Woodland Dressage: First Hack with Cadeau de Dieu

Today, I want to share with you the very special experience. We have been speaking to you about the skills, spontaneously appearing whenever our awareness grows, since the beginnings of OneHorseLife and BodyMarc, but I have never experienced it so directly and powerfully as last Sunday with Cadeau de Dieu. It is very common that when

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Woodland Dressage: Collection

Collection is the new movement pattern. People and horses’ move on the every day basis through the movement pattern of falling down. This is the most efficient movement pattern that allows to save a lot of energy. In this movement pattern the centre of gravity moves outside the balance, and the legs move forward to

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Woodland Dressage: Canter for Strength

Strength, balance and girth are expressions of Life.  Strength is the effect of the ability to engage muscles. Generally, when working with horses to support the development of strength and balance, people focus on growing muscles. In fact, muscles even if they are not very visible can be still very strong when they are fully engaged.

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Woodland Dressage: Decomposing the Power and the Movement

Riding outside can be beautiful, light and fun. This is always my great pleasure to invite my students to ride our horses in the forest, as it allows them to see the power, the balance and the degree of relaxation of our horses trained through Calmness. It also allows them to see how active, powerful

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