Resonant Riding I clinic with Carrie and Lala at Taktur Icelandic Horses in Crestwood, KY. For more info on registration and to sign up click HERE.

Resonant Riding clinic with Carrie and Lala hosted by Ebba Meehan of Merrimack Valley Icelandics in Boxford, MA. Contacted Ebba for more details at ebbameehan@me.com or (781)521-0841.

Lala and Carrie will be presenting two Resonant Riding teaching demonstrations and a lecture throughout Equine Affaire.

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Registration will open for our 12 week interactive course loaded with creative and technical training tools and exercises to explore with your horse. Spots will be very limited!

Who is this course for?

Our goal at Resonant Riding is to create courses and materials for riders of any level or discipline that can help them develop their own toolbox of exercises and daily training plans.  We want to help empower riders with the knowledge and skills needed for creating a harmonious, fun, creative and systematic partnership with their horse and to feel confident in doing so independently. 

This course covers the knowledge and skills key to our Resonant Riding philosophy including concepts such as: 

• Speed control

• Directional control

• Dressage exercises

• Flow

• Sequencing and combining exercises and gaits 

• Developing a “freestyle” to reflect on and inspire your daily training

• Exploring Musicality and the Creative Process 

• The Nordic Mindset and how it can affect our relationship with our horses 

• Every horse is unique and therefore requires an approach unique to his personality and physicality

This course is for you if you want to:

• Learn how to use exercises as tools to improve your horses physical and mental balance

• Learn how to design your own unique training sessions using a set of universal principles

• Develop in depth understanding of dressage exercises and how to implement them in a flow

• Develop more freedom and spontaneity in your training within a framework of easy to implement concepts

This course is for:

• All rider levels that have a horse they are working with regularly

• All horse breeds

• All disciplines / horsemanship styles

• Anyone interested in flow psychology and the creative process

Important information for former students!

• This course includes access to our Resonation Fundamentals.  If you have already purchased our Resonation Fundamentals you will have received a discount code via email.  Please apply this discount code at check out!

• This Fundamentals Course is unique in structure and assignments with some new content, however, it does include many materials from our Level 1 & 2 Courses.

• If you have taken one or both of our Level 1 & 2 online courses please contact us for your special discount code on your registration fee for this course! Email: lalaandcarrie@gmail.com

syllabus

Week 1 - February 12th

Read Handbook I

Handbook I Worksheet

February 17th Zoom Q&A per Handbook I Content at 8pm EST

Week 2 - February 19th

Read Handbook 2

Handbook 2 Worksheet

February 24th Zoom Q&A per Handbook 2 Content at 8pm EST

Week 3 - February 26th

Submit 3 minute video of a speed control exercise 

Choice of Shortening & Lengthening the Strides and/or Walk to Tölt/Trot Transitions

Week 4 - March 5th

Receive written feedback on your speed control exercise by March 8th

Submit 3 minute video of a directional control exercise 

Choice of Figure 8 or 20m circles

Week 5 - March 12th

Receive written feedback on your directional control exercise by March 15th

Read the Intro to Sequencing and Combining Manuscript 

View Leg Yield Sequencing & Combining Video 

View Shoulder In Sequencing & Combining Video

View Counter Bending Sequence & Combining Video

View Haunches In Sequencing & Combining Video

Week 6 - March 19th

Submit 3 minute video of a dressage exercise

Choice of Leg Yield, Shoulder In, Counter Bending, Haunches In

Week 7 - March 26th

Receive written feedback on your dressage exercise by March 29th

Submit 3 minute video of using the Week 6 dressage exercise in a sequence or combination

Week 8 - April 2nd

Receive written feedback on your dressage exercise sequence/combination by April 5th

Submit 3 minute video of a dressage exercise

Choice of Leg Yield, Shoulder In, Counter Bending, Haunches In

Week 9 - April 9th

Receive written feedback on your 2nd dressage exercise by April 12th

Submit 3 minute video of using the Week 8 dressage exercise in a sequence or combination

Week 10 - April 16th

Receive written feedback on your 2nd dressage exercise sequence/combo by April 19th

View the Nordic Mindset Demo

View the Lecture on the Rider’s Creative Mindset 

Preparatory Freestyle Examples and Documents 

Week 11 - April 23rd

Prepare Your Individual Freestyle 

Submit Freestyle Drawing Plan Worksheet

Week 12 - April 30th

Submit your 6 minute video freestyle performance

Private zoom meeting with Carrie & Lala to review your freestyle 

Lala & Carrie will be featured as presenting clinicians at Equine Affaire in Massachusetts. Visit equineaffaire.com for more more info on this exposition. The Resonant Riding presentations will be at the following times:

Thursday Nov. 10th 10:00am:

Implementing the Nordic Mindset in Riding

Friday Nov. 11th 10:45am:

Dressage as a Tool Not a Discipline

Friday Nov. 11th 1:00pm:

Creative Mindset for Riders

Carrie and Lala will also be performing along side their friends in the Knights of Iceland show in the evening Fantasia shows so be sure to purchase tickets as cheer them on!

Our annual #nostirrupnovember Freestyle competition is back for the third year running! We will be offering the five divisions: Pro, Adult Amateur, Youth, Pairs, & Para. We have an extra special lineup of judges planned plus many exciting sponsors giving out incredible prizes! More information will be posted soon!