Unmounted Biomechanics Clinics
This Autumn we have some exciting new workshops planned to help riders of all levels to improve their riding.
From improving your competition performance, helping both you and your horses comfort and confidence when riding or learning to ride for the first time.
Working with your body awareness, mental and physical fitness and techniques off horse has been scientifically proven to improve your ridden performance.
Karen has had many years experience of teaching off horse exercises. Riders have found it a fun way to improve their riding, learning more about themselves and the horse.
The workshops are a great way to meet likeminded people in a supportive environment and each two hour workshop is a lot of fun.
During the two hour session, we work on exercises that you can practice both on and off your horse, enabling you a greater body awareness, helping your fitness and muscle tone in the areas needed for riding, when appropriate we also focus on mental fitness. All this allows you ride to a higher level.
• Learn the fundamentals of how the rider’s body can profoundly influence the horse.
• Gain more core stability.
• Become more balanced and secure when riding your horse.
• Increase your confidence.
• Focus on yourself without having to worry about your horse.
• Develop a greater understanding of the interaction of rider and horse when riding and training your horse.
• Take away exercises to try when riding your horse.
• Learn some dismounted exercises to help improve your biomechanics, confidence and skill level.
Training the horse.
Tuesday 14th October 2025
Whether you have a young horse or a school master, whenever you are with your horse you are training him/her.
Enjoy an interactive workshop to improve your confidence, intentions, positive attitude and understanding of the principles of training horses young and old.
Feedback from previous workshops;
"Thanks for a very entertaining and informative clinic Karen, really helped me consolidate what you have been teaching me in our lessons." AF
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Asymmetry workshop
Thursday 6th November 2025.
This workshop continues to be very popular, with students returning to gain insights into how they are progressing.
None of us are totally symmetrical, however the harder we work to becoming near to this, the clearer our cues to the horse can be and the easier it is for the horse to carry us with more balance and grace.
It really is a continuous journey to help yourself and your horse to be as straight and balanced as possible.
We start with Awareness, helping you to work out what you need to to gain more symmetry.
Then progress to Power and Balance, helping you to increase strength in the weaker areas of your body to enable you to be closer to symmetry.
This can really help keep both you and your horse sounder for longer in both back and limbs.
Feedback from previous clinics;
Thank you very much for last night which I thoroughly enjoyed.
Your effect was immediate as I drove home in much greater comfort than I arrived!
Thank you for such a clearly delivered and well structured lesson. BI
"Many thanks for the Asymmetry workshop - it was really interesting to get such an in-depth analysis of my position and asymmetry. Quite an eye opener! I have already begun to put some of the learning into practice and I am sure Duke is feeling the benefit. Many thanks for turning such an intricate subject into such a fun evening." Suzy
"Thank you so much for the evening and the follow up notes/photo. I really enjoyed the evening and it gave me a lot to think about." Maggie.
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Softness and Contact
Thursday 4th December 2025
Does your horse get strong in the hand when you are riding?
Would you like to feel that you could stop your horse using less pressure with your hands?
Enjoy a fun and interactive evening and learn some off horse exercises that you can take away to help you and your horse to build a great partnership and better brakes!
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Goal Setting Workshop
Thursday 15th January 2026
New Year, New Goals, New You!
Do you feel as if you and your horse could do more?
Are you lacking enthusiasm?
Unsure how to reach your next goal?
Is something standing in the way of your dreams?
Treat yourself and come and join our Goal setting workshop, go away with enthusiasm of how you can achieve your goals and dreams.
Learn some techniques that will help your confidence.
Helping you and your horse reach the next level.
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As seen in Ridgeway Rider!
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How breathing can effect your horse and improve your riding
Gain calmness
Allow yourself to feel more confident.
Enable better focus.
Improve your balance and stability.
Help your horse to be calm
Enhance your competition results.
Feel more positive.
Improve your asymmetry.
Increase your lung capacity and aerobic fitness.
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Core Stability Workshop at Christon
Did you know that your core consists of more than just your abs?
Conditioning the core has many benefits to enable improved riding skills, safety, reducing injury, building confidence, reducing back pain and so much more.
While most riders associate the core with the abdominal muscles, it actually includes so much more!
A strong, well-conditioned core is the key to better posture, balance and stability for riders both on and off the horse, this can improve your confidence when riding and handling your horses.
Enhancing core strength leads to improved stability and body control,
allowing riders use their hands & legs with more precision.
This improves clarity for the horse and reduces 'white noise,' enabling a more effective connection and communication with your horse.
A strong core is essential for transferring energy. Generating force efficiently and force absorption, helping the rider to match and absorb the forces of the horses movement not only enabling the horse to carry you with more ease & efficiency but also helping you, the rider, to influence the horse in a profound way enabling better performance and improved longevity.
Join us at the Core for Horse Riders Workshop to unlock key insights for improving your riding skills and enhancing your horse's comfort and performance.
Spaces are limited so contact us to book your space iders can learn 55% more information when dismounted! Instead of their focus being taken up by what is going on with the horse, they can focus on more detail and then take it away to practice on the horse in their own time.
These clinics are fun and informal. With limited numbers permitted for each class, all particapants gain individual attention. Come along without your horse and increase your awareness and knowledge of how the top riders ride. Take away new ideas to try when you next ride.
An Independent Seat
You may well have been told to ‘sit deep’. Understand the meaning of this and learn some unmounted exercises that can help develop a more Independent seat, improve your core stability and confidence. Allowing you to sit better in sitting trot and canter.
In turn this will help your confidence and enable you to be a more powerful rider.
Feedback from previous Workshops;
"Just wanted to add a word about the dismounted workshops. Have attended two of these so far and they have been an excellent refresher and helped me to recognise and address some of my asymetries and habits in a supportive and friendly enviornment- with the added benefit of being in the warm and dry!" MF
Studio Jumping Biomechanics Clinic
Learn more about the theory behind a good jumping position. Take part in some off horse
to help you establish a more secure and flexible position for both show jumping and cross country.
Learn tactics to help you get to the fence on a good stride, with better balance.
Feedback from previous clinics;
Thank you for a great evening. The dismounted workshop really helped me piece together the elements of jumping. Not being the most confident jumper it was great to be able to focus on and re-adjust my position without the fear factor of a fence! It was fascinating to see and feel the effects that specific muscles can have on your jumping position and learning how to trigger these muscles will help me re-create that secure feeling over a fence. The resistance bands were a great way of demonstrating the forces that we will experience before, during and after a fence. LD
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All Clinics will be held at; Christon, nr. Axbridge, Somerset.
Each course will start at 7pm and run for approximately 2 hours.
Numbers will be limited to allow everyone to participate fully.
£20 per clinic. Early booking is advised.
Contact Karen for more details.