What Your Registration Includes:
Three Preparation Videos — Build your foundation before the live webinar
Two-Hour Live Webinar — Follow the complete step-by-step explanation
Real-Horse Case Studies — See the progression, not only the final result
Five-Stage Pelvic-Tension Map — Recognise which stage reflects your horse’s movement
Training Blueprints — Understand where I begin and what comes next
Recording and Live Q&A — Rewatch the teaching and bring your questions
Your horse bucks, rushes, changes behind, becomes heavy, loses balance or looks to the outside. These reactions are often labelled as disobedience, freshness, resistance or a lack of strength.
But once appropriate pain, injury and veterinary concerns have been assessed, a deeper movement-pattern problem may still remain.
In many horses, the reason behind difficult trot-to-canter transitions and recurring canter problems lies deeper within the organisation of the movement itself.
It is a Pelvic-Tension and Movement-Pattern Organisation Problem
When the horse moves from trot into canter, the body has to solve a difficult biomechanical challenge:
Trot is symmetrical.
Canter is asymmetrical.
The pelvis must change its loading pattern, the hind limbs must produce and absorb force asymmetrically, and that force must travel through the pelvis, spine and topline while the horse carries the rider and maintains balance.
When the horse cannot maintain this organisation, the body must find a compensatory solution.
Real Horses. Real Problems. Real Movement-Pattern Changes.
Real-life training is not a beautifully edited Instagram video. It is a process of observing, questioning, testing and progressively building the right training blueprint for the individual horse.
During the webinar, you will see real horses whose movement patterns I worked to restore through progressive training from the ground and under saddle.
1. From Explosive Transitions to Greater Organisation, Balance and Ease
Before: Bucking, jumping into the transition and losing postural organisation.
What I identified: The horse was attempting to enter canter but could not maintain the required asymmetrical movement pattern without protective tension.
What began to change: The transition became quieter, the back remained more available and the horse started to organise the canter without needing the same explosive strategy.
2. From Looking to the Outside to Following the Curve Through the Whole Body
Before: The horse repeatedly turned the head and neck to the outside and lost balance on the circle.
What I identified: The neck was acting as an emergency balancing tool for a body that could not yet organise the curve efficiently through the pelvis, trunk and back.
What began to change: As the body became better organised, the horse no longer needed to counterbalance so strongly through the neck.
3. From Disorganised Canter to Greater Elasticity and Restored Force Transmission
Before: The canter was short, heavy and so disorganised that the rider could not comfortably canter the horse under saddle.
What I identified: The horse could not yet organise the canter movement pattern, and as the training load increased, the body could not absorb and transmit force efficiently.
What began to change: The canter became more organised, supple, rhythmical and elastic. Greater expression was introduced only after the movement pattern became more stable.
During the webinar, I will show you the stages between the “before” and “after” — including the small changes that tell me the movement pattern is beginning to reorganise.
Canter is one of the most demanding movement patterns for the horse (and rider)
Canter is not simply a faster trot or a transition into another gait. It requires the horse to reorganise the entire body.
Canter requires:
When this works, the canter looks effortless.
When the pelvis is tense or restricted, the horse may be unable to organise the canter efficiently. The body then adopts the most available compensatory strategy — even when that strategy creates further imbalance or tension.
And the easiest strategy is often not the correct one.
This is where problems begin.
This Course Will Change How You Interpret and Address Canter Problems
You will learn to see bucking, bunny-hopping, heaviness, stiffness and loss of energy:
But as possible expressions of:
You will learn why one horse canters with elasticity, power, and ease, while another horse runs, braces, defends, cross-canters, bunny-hops, bucks, or falls apart the moment canter begins.
You will learn what happens in the horse’s body in the split second after landing from a jump, during the canter transition, or when the horse tries to carry the rider through a circle.
And most importantly:
You will learn how I begin restoring the movement pattern through clear, actionable training blueprints based on real horses I have trained.
I will guide you through the Five Pelvic Tension Stages in Canter:
Inside the webinar, I will guide you through five stages of pelvic tension and canter disorganisation. For each stage, I will show you what I observe, what the horse may be compensating for, where I begin and what tells me the horse is ready to progress. This map will help you recognise where your horse may currently be within the movement-restoration process — and what must become available before you ask for the next stage.
Five Stages of Pelvic Tension and Canter Disorganisation:
STAGE 1: Pelvic Lock and Asymmetry Avoidance — The horse avoids or cannot sustain the asymmetrical organisation required by canter.
STAGE 2: Failed discharge of tension — Accumulated force appears through bucking, kicking, bunny-hopping or explosive transitions.
STAGE 3: Protective compensation — The horse canters but relies on speed, crookedness, heaviness, bracing or excessive neck movement to remain functional.
STAGE 4: Movement-Pattern Restoration — The horse begins discovering a safer and more coordinated way to organise canter.
STAGE 5: Return to Full Performance Elasticity — The pelvis, back and topline increasingly transmit force with rhythm, balance, lightness, elasticity and expression.
Why Collection Exposes the Existing Movement Pattern
Collection does not necessarily create the problem — but it often exposes the problem that is already present.
When greater load and technical difficulty are added before the horse can transmit force efficiently, the canter may become shorter, heavier, slower and more compressed. The horse may swish the tail, lose rhythm, block the back or become increasingly dependent on the rider’s hand.
During the webinar, I will show you how I assess whether the movement pattern is ready for greater collection — and why I often prioritise quieter coordination and elasticity before asking for more expression.
What You Will Leave With
During the Relax That Pelvis Course, you will learn:
A Five-Stage Movement Map — Recognise where the horse is within the progression from pelvic guarding to restored elasticity.
A Better Interpretation of Canter Problems — Understand why bucking, changing behind, rushing, looking outside and heaviness may be compensatory strategies.
A Clearer Method for Choosing the Next Step — Learn why more leg, more pressure or repeated transitions may not address the underlying movement pattern.
Training Blueprints — See how I begin working with the horse and how I decide what should happen next.
A Method for Recognising Real Improvement — Understand why a quieter, smaller or less expressive canter may be the first sign of genuine reorganisation.
Bonus: Why the Trot Will Improve Too
When pelvic mobility improves and the horse relies less on compensatory tension, the effects may also appear in the trot through better rhythm, back transmission, suppleness and contact.
From a weak, disorganised trot that lacks suppleness and energy
To balanced, rhythmical, powerful and elastic force transmission
You Will See the Process — Not Only the Result
Social media can show you the visible before and after. During the webinar, I will show you the progression between them: what I noticed, where I began, which early changes mattered and how the process developed from groundwork into ridden movement.
This Is for You If:
This Program is for riders, trainers and horse owners who are confused by canter problems and want a deeper explanation together with a clear training blueprint to follow.
It is for you if your horse:
- Your horse bucks, bunny-hops, changes behind or cross-canters.
- Your horse rushes, loses balance or falls through the circle.
- Your horse repeatedly looks outside or uses the neck excessively.
- The canter feels heavy, compressed, crooked or blocked.
- Collection creates tension, tail activity or loss of forwardness.
- You work with young horses, dressage horses, jumpers or eventers.
- You want to understand the mechanism before choosing the exercise.
You do not need advanced biomechanics knowledge. I will guide you through the movement pattern step by step.
Why I Teach Canter Differently
I am Anna Marciniak, founder of OneHorseLife and creator of Conscious, Residual and Performance Relaxation for Horses — the Optimal Performance Program, RTRT: Residual Tensions Release Therapy with the bit, Tendon-Based Movement Training and Anna’s Riding Method.
My work focuses on what happens before a horse can produce truly elastic and powerful movement: how residual tension influences movement patterns, how the nervous system organises the body and how force travels through the pelvis, spine, topline and contact.
I do not begin by forcing the horse into the final shape of the movement. I first identify what the body is protecting, which part of the movement pattern is unavailable and which compensation is allowing the horse to continue.
During this webinar, I will show you how I apply that process specifically to canter — from the first signs of pelvic guarding to the restoration of balance, elasticity and expression.
What Happens After Registration
When you register, you will receive access to the theory lecture video (2,5h) and training video materials.
You will have possibility to ask questions and book your individual consultation to discuss your horse’s problem.
What's Next...
The Next Steps After
The Relax That Pelvis Course will give you a clear training blueprint, a deeper understanding of your horse’s movement patterns, and practical tools you can use independently at home.
However, movement-pattern restoration also requires correct execution and consistent practice. That is why you will have the opportunity to apply for a separate, paid two-month Relax That Pelvis Online-Guided Group Program.
Inside the program, I will guide you step by step and help you adapt the process to your horse’s individual needs. This work is not about forcing the horse through exercises, but about safely guiding the body into a new and healthier movement pattern.
Because every day matters, the program is designed to help you spend less time trying to figure everything out alone — and more time enjoying better movement with your horse.
One Last Message: This Is Not Your Fault
One of the most important goals of this webinar is to give you relief. Many riders begin to blame themselves when the canter goes wrong. They think they have ruined the horse, are causing pain, should stop riding, or that the problem must be permanent or structural.
But many canter problems begin as mechanical adaptations to a new movement challenge. The horse must carry the rider’s weight, organise the forces of the canter, turn, balance on a circle, and coordinate the entire body. The body solves this challenge in the easiest available way — but the easiest solution is not always the correct one.
Just as we need to learn how to lift weight or perform complex movements correctly, horses also need guidance to develop a healthier movement pattern. Some compensations do not disappear by themselves, even as the horse becomes stronger or more experienced, because they have already become embedded within the canter pattern. This webinar will help you understand how to begin progressively reorganising that pattern without sacrificing elasticity, suppleness, strength or calmness.
Your horse has not failed, and neither have you. The movement pattern simply needs to be understood, guided, and restored through a clear process.
And this is precisely what this Webinar is going to give you and your horse.
Important note
This webinar is educational and focuses on movement patterns, relaxation, biomechanics and training. It does not replace veterinary diagnosis or treatment. If your horse shows signs of pain, acute lameness, injury or a sudden change in movement or behaviour, please involve your veterinarian. When appropriate medical concerns have been assessed but the canter pattern remains difficult to interpret, this webinar may help you understand more clearly what you are observing.