The Rider's Seat: Day 2, Ride 1
Rider Position and Aids
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Susanne notices JJ's quiet upper body and discuses with the audience how she found this quietness.
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The Rider's Seat: Day 2, Ride 2
Susanne helps this rider first with her breathing, asking her to let a really deep warm breathe out with each exhale; a yoga breathe. This controlled breathing out gives the horse a lot of security. She continues with other breathing exercises, all of which help both the horse and rider relax.
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The Rider's Seat: Day 2, Ride 3
Susanne works with a rider to lighten her seat on this young, very sensitive horse. They work on the up-up-sit in posting trot and again in canter. Horse and rider do part ways at one point, but the rider remounts and ends the session with a much quieter horse.
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The Rider's Seat: Day 2, Ride 4
Susanne works with JJ on rhythm and collection, and they work through some exercises that the horse finds difficult as he progresses in the collected work.
