Susanne notices JJ's quiet upper body and discuses with the audience how she found this quietness.

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.

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.

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.

This rider works on opening her hips by moving from a standing dressage seat while pushing her hips forward then into a jumping position and then back to a standing position.

Susanne von Dietze works with a rider on finding the correct position.

Susanne von Dietze works with a rider on finding the correct position.

Susanne von Dietze works with a rider on finding the correct position.

Susanne von Dietze works with a rider on finding the correct position.

Susanne works with rider on the half pass and making it more rhythmical. She discusses the importance of having a steady contact on the outside rein during the half pass.

Susanne discusses control and how it doesn't always mean to take, that it also means to give when the horse needs us to give.

Susanne works to help the rider find her stability in her core vs. her back.

Susanne discusses the rhythm of canter to trot and how the pelvis must change with that rhythm.

Susanne works with the rider to get her horse between the circle of aids.

Susanne discusses lightness in the seat and how that helps the horse with transitions.

Susanne works with rider to establish the rhythm.

Susanne reminds her rider that the horse doesn't always start at the same place they left off the ride before. Each day is a new day and you need to start fresh.

U.S. Olympian Steffen Peters helps this pair confirm their aids for upper level movements including canter pirouettes, piaffe and passage. This 7-part series offers exercises to improve the pirouettes with an emphasis on correctness.

Steffen begins by explaining that correcting any issue comes from the use of the only three aids: leg, reins and seat. They work on going from medium canter to a pirouette canter on the long sides. It proves more difficult on the centerline, but is great preparation for the pirouettes.

They now apply more productive and responsive half halts within the trot to ask for transitions between passage and piaffe.

Steffen has her work on entering the pirouette from a straight line after collecting him instead of using the turn into the pirouette to collect him. He helps the rider guide the horse to drop his neck in the movement. They ride a schooling pirouette while changing the flexion from the inside to ...

Next, Steffen has them work on their passage and talks about how to train to improve the piaffe and passage.

Steffen gives the rider an exercise to improve the crossover behind in the pirouette at the walk.

When the horse becomes strong in the changes, Steffen asks for a pirouette canter before asking for the changes.