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This clinic is dedicated to helping riders understand how their body influences their horse’s performance, behavior, and willingness. By focusing on the biomechanics of riding, participants will explore how subtle adjustments in alignment, posture, and aids can create a profound impact on their horse’s movement and mindset. This is an opportunity to refine your skills and unlock new possibilities for harmony and performance with your horse.

• The Rider’s Alignment:
  Understand how your position directly affects your horse’s balance, rhythm, and ability to engage. You’ll learn how to align your body to support your horse’s movement, creating a stable and effective connection.
• Clearer Communication:
  Explore techniques to make your aids precise, purposeful, and easy for your horse to understand. This clarity helps reduce confusion and enhances the trust between horse and rider.
• Empowering the Horse:
  Learn how to use your balance and movement to encourage your horse’s natural rhythm, suppleness, and energy. Unlock your horse’s potential by promoting relaxation, flow, and willingness.
• Practical Exercises:
  Practice step-by-step drills to address specific “horse issues” by refining your own movements in the saddle. These exercises are designed to improve both the rider’s influence and the horse’s response.

This clinic is perfect for riders of all levels who are seeking to improve their horse’s performance and strengthen their partnership. Whether you’re addressing specific challenges or simply looking to refine your riding, this session will provide valuable insights and practical takeaways.

Join us for a transformative experience that will help you unlock your horse’s true potential and deepen the connection between you and your equine partner.

Location:

Glick Ranch
4834 E. Canyon Creek Rd., Cave Creek, Az.

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Whether you're an experienced rider or just starting your equestrian journey, The Rider's Mechanic™ offers fresh insights and practical techniques that can transform your riding.

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Unlock Your Full Potential Off the Horse

Join us for an immersive summer workshop (in the shade!) designed to transform your posture, core strength, and overall performance as a rider—without ever stepping into the saddle. The Balanced Rider workshop focuses on building the foundation of stability, mobility, and body awareness that every rider needs to enhance their riding experience both on and off the horse.

Riding requires a combination of strength, flexibility, and coordination. Yet, many riders spend so much time in the saddle that they forget to develop the physical foundation needed for optimal performance. The Balanced Rider workshop targets the core elements of biomechanics, posture, and movement efficiency that directly impact your riding. We’ll show you how to enhance these elements in ways that improve your connection with the horse, prevent injury, and increase your riding comfort.

Whether you are a beginner looking to improve your posture or an experienced rider aiming for better balance, this workshop is for you. You’ll leave with a set of practical tools and exercises that will help you improve your riding and your body awareness both in the saddle and throughout your daily life.

• Core Strength and Posture: Develop the deep core muscles needed to support a strong, independent seat, helping you maintain balance and stability in the saddle.
   
• Flexibility and Mobility: Improve the flexibility and mobility of key areas such as your hips, hamstrings, spine, and shoulders, allowing for better alignment and more fluid movement.
   
• Dynamic Posture: Understand how dynamic posture works in conjunction with stability, and how to maintain proper alignment during functional movements like walking, bending, and lifting.
   
• Stability and Proprioception: Build better balance and coordination through targeted exercises that enhance your awareness of body position and movement, both on and off the horse.
   
• Daily Habits and Posture: Learn how to integrate proper posture into your daily life—whether sitting, standing, or moving—to maintain the benefits of this workshop every day.
   

• Introduction to basic biomechanics and the role of posture in riding.
   
• Postural analysis and core engagement exercises.
   
• Practical tips on maintaining proper posture throughout the day.
   

• Building core strength for better stability in the saddle.
   
• Exercises to improve postural endurance and core activation.
   
• Techniques for engaging the core in everyday activities.
   

• How flexibility and mobility affect posture and alignment.
   
• Stretching techniques using Active Isolated Stretching (AIS) to improve joint mobility and muscle flexibility.
   
• Mobility drills for hips, shoulders, and spine.
   

• Understanding dynamic posture and its relationship to stability.
   
• Stability exercises using balance tools and proprioception drills.
   
• Functional movements to enhance posture and stability for riding.
   

• Developing body awareness through balance and coordination exercises.
   
• How to improve stability and control during riding movements.
   
• Balance drills to enhance proprioception and spatial awareness.
   

• Strategies for maintaining proper posture and stability in daily life.
   
• Creating a sustainable off-horse routine to continue improving core strength and flexibility.
   
• How integrating these principles into your daily habits will enhance your riding performance.
   

This workshop is perfect for riders of all levels, whether you’re a beginner looking to improve your core strength and posture or an advanced rider seeking to fine-tune your body mechanics. It's suitable for anyone interested in building a strong foundation of stability, mobility, and body awareness to improve their riding performance.

For riders who want to:

• Develop better posture and alignment both in and out of the saddle.
   
• Improve core strength for a more independent seat.
   
• Enhance flexibility and mobility to move more effectively with the horse.
   
• Build stability and balance to prevent injury and increase confidence.
   

• Location: Chaparosa Ranch, Rio Verde, AZ
   
• Duration: 6-week workshop (1.5-hour sessions per week)
   
• Dates: June 4 - July 9, 2025
   
• Cost: $300
   
• Instructor: Kasey Reeder, CRI, LMT
   

Off-horse training is key to developing the strength, flexibility, and awareness required to be a better rider. By improving your posture, stability, and movement off the horse, you can drastically enhance your riding comfort, confidence, and communication with your horse.

This course will not only help you ride with better posture, but it will also increase your ability to engage your core, move fluidly, and stay balanced and stable both in the saddle and in your daily activities. The work you do off the horse is just as important as the time spent riding!

Sign up today and get ready to enhance your riding performance with The Balanced Rider workshop—your path to stronger, more stable, and more confident riding.

For more information and to reserve your spot, visit https://theridersmechanic.as.me/balance.

I Look Forward To Everything You're Going To Achieve!