How to stabilise Rider’s position in the Posting Trot? As you already know, for the stabilisation of the rider in the saddle we will mainly use the quadriceps muscle. For the sake of simplicity we will refer to it as simply as “thigh muscles” in further materials. This generalisation is needed because the muscle groups

How to deal with the motion of the horse’s back? Riders very often deal with the upwards movement of the horse’s back in such a way that they try to compensate it and gradually kill it with stiffness in their body. We have already written about it, so we will not repeat how this approach

Posting Trot One method of dealing with the waving movement of the horse’s back at the trot is to post or to raise in the saddle. It is a very convenient form of “dealing” with the problem of an active horse’s back, as it allows the rider to lift his body in the saddle before

What happens during trot? In a simplified way, we can say that the horse’s trot movement consists in bouncing the legs off the ground and moving forward with cyclical jumps. Cyclically, it means that the movement starts in a certain position and returns to that position (like a bouncing ball). In other words, the force

The WHY behind the HOW Before we move on to the technical aspects of horse riding, let’s think for a moment why do we ride and want to mount horses? For Anna, horseback riding is an expression of the need of the soul whose nature is to connect with everything around and to empathise with

Welcome to Anna’s Riding Method With the 1st Module of the Anna’s Riding Method course, we invite you to the world of our equestrian technique, which is understandable to both rider and horse, and gives almost immediate results. Such fast and such spectacular results of our method are possible because it is built on the

Warmest Welcome to the Anna’s Riding Method Course! Below you can find links to the English and Polish language version of the Module 1 of Anna’s Riding Method. I share it with you with deep heartfelt trust that it will help you and will support your riding technique to develop, allowing you to make huge