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Do you want to unlock the secret of a really relaxed as well as accurate dressage ride? Is there tension and stress that you'd like to replace with suppleness and ease while actually getting more correct movements? Relaxation, after Rhythm is the second most important foundation stone of the training scale. Yet, it is often the first to be abandoned, resulting in tense rides where both horses and riders are stressed. The secret is to work as a team with the trainer at the shoulder, making a gradual transition of aids to the rider in small increments so that tension never builds. Whether you would like better laterals, more engagement (tension kills engagement), more springy, joyful piaffe and passage or just simply more joy, period, this is the way.At its heart, sacred geometry is about recognizing patterns and forms in the universe that seem to repeat across different scales, from the smallest atom to the largest galaxies. In the warm up for each rider we will ride simple patterns as a meditation exploring breathing techniques, visualizing sacred geometry in the dressage patterns as we ride them, and what they mean spiritually, as well as practicing gratitude. Then, with the mind body and heart prepared, and horse and rider feeling safe, we will unlock the tension in the movements themselves. Intrigued? Come join us.
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About Rupert Isaacson: About Rupert: A lifelong horseman who grew up foxhunting and eventing in the UK, Rupert came to dressage through observing that his autistic son Rowan began to communicate in the saddle in front of him when they rode horses together in collection. This led Rupert to they therapeutic technique now known as Horse Boy Method, but he also realized that to really understand collection in order to serve an autistic kid well, he had to learn about dressage. So he went on a quest – to Portugal, France and the UK, riding with different mentors but always finding that they were at least 50% confusing no matter how useful their exercises and techniques were. He became frustrated that no one could explain the overall structure and system in a way that was coherent and immediately doable. He then started to study the old masters writing, spent hundreds of hours going through online instructional videos and also kept riding with good mentors. Little by little he put together the beginnings of our Helios Harmony course and system. When he then discovered the extraordinary Valenca family in Portugal and Christian Bachinger of the SRS in Austria, the whole picture at last fell into place.
A Journalist for the British and American press from the early 1990s (Daily and Sunday Telegraph, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Independent on Sunday, Esquire, National Geographic, Conde Nast Traveller – among others), he has also published several guidebooks to Africa and India, and is he author of three non-fictional memoirs: The Healing Land (a New York Times Notable Book), which tells the story of his family in Africa, and of his own time spent living with the Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert; The Horse Boy (a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller), which tells the story of his journey across Mongolia on horseback with his autistic son Rowan; and The Long Ride Home, which tells of the three subsequent healing journeys he and his son made to Africa, Australia and the Navajo Reservation, as well as his discovery of how horses can help autism and special needs in general.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Equuleus Farm 8989 4 Mile rd, Ada, MI, United States