Build balance, lightness and responsiveness.
Particularly valuable for young horses preparing for ridden work and mature horses that need a gentle awakening of their movement and athletic potential.
A different way of training
The problem is not always movement. Often, it is tension.
Residual tensions are tensions that remain in muscle fibres after conscious or unconscious muscular activity has stopped. OneHorseLife’s RTRT method translates years of research and hands-on practice into an intuitive approach designed for horses and the people who train them.
The aim is not to push the horse through stiffness. It is to learn how to feel tension, follow its release and create the space in which movement can become soft, flexible, energetic and connected.
“I want a light and a forward horse. The kind of horsemanship I do is based on Conscious Muscle Relaxation and leads to total ease of the whole horse.”
Anna Marciniak, founder of OneHorseLife
The RTRT map
Learn to feel seven primary junctions.
Through precise work on the bit, the course teaches you to identify and release key connections. As your feel becomes clearer, the spine can begin to function like a flexible spring, carrying energy through the whole body.
The trainer learns to recognise stiffness, instability and the quality of connection — not by applying more pressure, but by listening through the reins.
Who the course is for
A deeper answer for horses who need more than ordinary training.
RTRT Long Reins is presented for healthy sport horses, horses rebuilding ease of movement, sensitive or explosive horses, and horses that need a more relaxed source of forward energy.
Replace stiffness with softness and range.
Explore a tension-release approach for horses beginning to show stiffness, restricted movement or loss of ease through the back and joints.
Help the “ticking bomb” stop collecting tension.
Learn a calmer framework for horses that become explosive, spooky or overwhelmed as intensity and heart rate increase.
Find forward energy without pushing through tension.
Shift away from heavy movement patterns and invite a more elastic, engaged and internally motivated way of moving.
Turn the everyday struggle into a dream
This course gives horses wings.
Seek the feeling of a horse who offers movement by himself.
Develop flexibility and lightness throughout the joints.
Build the body in a balanced and harmonious way.
Feel a clearer connection with the horse’s whole body.
Experience energy and drive without sacrificing calmness.
Practitioner experience
“It reinvents the bit.”
After releasing more residual tensions with this therapy, he showed that he loves to move. He is not lazy. Without the friction of tensions, engaging his whole body became easier.
A practitioner describing the change in her horse’s energy, willingness and quality of movement after applying the technique.
Visual testimonies
Changes you can see.
Images shared on the original course page show horses at different stages of the work and illustrate visible changes in posture, carriage and relaxation. Visual RTRT horse comparison
Meet your teacher
Anna Marciniak
Anna Marciniak, founder of OneHorseLife, is a horse trainer with a dressage background shaped by classical work in lightness. Together with Pawel Marciniak, she has spent more than a decade exploring the impact of physical tension on movement, emotion and behaviour.
Their work developed into methods for teaching Conscious Muscle Relaxation to horses and people, with an emphasis on practical change, athletic performance, connection and a calmer nervous system.
Anna’s teaching is centred not on forcing a different performance, but on changing how tension is felt, stored and released.
Residual Tensions Release Therapy
Create space for the horse to change.
Learn a precise, non-invasive approach to long-rein work that seeks softness, whole-body connection and forward movement in relaxation.
€1525.00