Overdale Equestrian Centre

4 Days to Transform Your Riding Experience

***14 hours of private sessions with Karin over 4 days (on and off horse).***

This course is for you if:

• You’ve not been riding as much or as well as you’d like to, through injury, illness, confidence issues, or life in general.
• You know there’s a better way to ride, to be better for your horse, more balanced, with core strength, yet ‘relaxed’.
• You’d like to know what to do, how and why.
• You’d like to understand ‘feel’, to ride ‘on-the-bit’, to be straight and in balance, to do more with less.
• You’d like to take time to focus on yourself and how you can improve as a rider.
• You want to understand the HOW of riding and how it applies to you.
• You would like to experience the feelings of ‘rightness’.
• You want to learn in a relaxed, supportive environment.
• Go home with a practice plan.

Your Transformational 4 Days Includes:

• 14 hours of private sessions with Karin over 4 days (On and off horse).
• Assessment – to identify where you are starting from inc. video and goals session – to know where you want to go.
• Lessons to improve your position and balance.
• Explorations of your movement patterns and habits to enable better identification and adjustment, to improve strength, balance and co-ordination.
• Explorations of feel, what to feel and how, to enable appropriate training of horse and organisation of rider.
• Core and balance building activities using a variety of equipment.
• Use of computerised riding simulator.
• Horse training assessment and plan.
• Option to use own or school horses throughout stay.
• Stabling / grazing for own horse.
• Use of covered arena (22m x 67m) whilst staying.
• Flexibility within schedule to allow downtime for resting, hacking own horse or tourist activities.
• Review / plan next steps, with lesson notes, photos and video clips to take away.
• Audio recordings of off -horse
• Awareness lessons to enable further exploration at home.

BONUS : use of Cyclo-ssage Massager to ease tired and aching muscles (human) – outside lesson times.
BONUS : use of other fitness equipment outside lesson times.
BONUS : discounted follow-up sessions
BONUS : follow up email support.

Shorter, shared* or group* packages also available, talk to Karin to decide what’s best for you.
(*self-organised, bring a friend or 5)

Option to share with a friend – £200 additional fee.

Accommodation

Local accommodation available – click here for list.

What Others Say…..

“On numerous recommendations I booked myself in for an intensive week of lessons with Karin. I can’t believe how she transformed my riding and my attitude to being on horseback. We realised early on that I would benefi t from a few sessions of Feldenkrais and the change was extraordinary – I went from feeling that I couldn’t separate my seat bones to feeling like I was actually moulded to the horse by my deep seat and fluid movement. Her clear explanations, patience, attention to detail and humane gentle teaching coupled with her knowledge of the biomechanics of the human and horse saw me leave with a total change in my riding, hugely increased confidence and renewed vigour for something that I had been finding increasingly difficult and frustrating.” Elena

“First time I have been pain free for over 18 years! Absolutely amazing.” Shirley

“Riding has become a very interesting game of learning after I started working with Karin. I have read Mary’s books for ages. After Karin’s hands on help I was ready to really start a profound change in my riding. Between my visits to Overdale equestrian Centre I find the webinars from Dressage Training TV a great inspiration. I am a rather nervous rider, but with my new skills I am now able to get over my fears and ride safely.” Kirsi

Dorothy Marks is an accredited Ride With Your Mind Coach, who has trained with Philippe Karl (PK) in his School of Legerete (Lightness).  Whether you are new to the work of PK or have previous experience, Dorothy will work with you and your horse in-hand, mounted, or a combination of the two.

Lessons will be 45 minutes each and may be taken on your own horse, or a school horse from Overdale EC. If riding a school horse, please contact contact us to advise your height, weight and experience.

Our covered arena is 22 x 66, with a sand and rubber surface.

Overnight stabling available if required.

Spectators welcome.

Lesson times will be advised during the week before the clinic.

Improve Your Seat – increase your body awareness, stability, relaxation, mobility and strength for riding. This is the first of 6 workshops and will focus on Pelvic Mobility and Seat Bones.

The pelvis is ‘our seat’ it is how we connect to our horses. It has the potential to move in many ways. Some of these are beneficial to our riding, others not. Being aware of what is happening with our pelvis helps us to sit more correctly in the saddle and position ourselves to request the moves we require of our horses, in straight or lateral movements.  During this day we will explore the pelvic movements whilst lying on the floor, in sitting and in standing.  We will explore Seat Bones and how we sit on them. There will also be opportunities to work on the static saddle to explore alignment, stability and connection.

Sunday

Option to stay an extra day to have either or both Private Feldenkrais lesson and/or Private Mounted Lesson on own or school horse (overnight stabling available at £25 per night).

1 Workshop £60

2 or more Workshops £50 each

6 Workshops £250

General

• Venue for Saturday Classes – Westcote Village Hall, Church Westcote, OX7 6SF
• Venue for Sunday Sessions – Overdale EC, Nether Westcote, OX7 6SD
• Limited to 12 riders per course
• Non-riders are welcome for Saturday classes
• Course participants have the opportunity to watch other mounted lessons on the Sunday, or can take the time to be a tourist in the Cotswolds. 

Accommodation

Local accommodation available – click here for list.

4 Days to Transform Your Riding Experience

***14 hours of private sessions with Karin over 4 days (on and off horse).***

This course is for you if:

• You’ve not been riding as much or as well as you’d like to, through injury, illness, confidence issues, or life in general.
• You know there’s a better way to ride, to be better for your horse, more balanced, with core strength, yet ‘relaxed’.
• You’d like to know what to do, how and why.
• You’d like to understand ‘feel’, to ride ‘on-the-bit’, to be straight and in balance, to do more with less.
• You’d like to take time to focus on yourself and how you can improve as a rider.
• You want to understand the HOW of riding and how it applies to you.
• You would like to experience the feelings of ‘rightness’.
• You want to learn in a relaxed, supportive environment.
• Go home with a practice plan.

Your Transformational 4 Days Includes:

• 14 hours of private sessions with Karin over 4 days (On and off horse).
• Assessment – to identify where you are starting from inc. video and goals session – to know where you want to go.
• Lessons to improve your position and balance.
• Explorations of your movement patterns and habits to enable better identification and adjustment, to improve strength, balance and co-ordination.
• Explorations of feel, what to feel and how, to enable appropriate training of horse and organisation of rider.
• Core and balance building activities using a variety of equipment.
• Use of computerised riding simulator.
• Horse training assessment and plan.
• Option to use own or school horses throughout stay.
• Stabling / grazing for own horse.
• Use of covered arena (22m x 67m) whilst staying.
• Flexibility within schedule to allow downtime for resting, hacking own horse or tourist activities.
• Review / plan next steps, with lesson notes, photos and video clips to take away.
• Audio recordings of off -horse
• Awareness lessons to enable further exploration at home.

BONUS : use of Cyclo-ssage Massager to ease tired and aching muscles (human) – outside lesson times.
BONUS : use of other fitness equipment outside lesson times.
BONUS : discounted follow-up sessions
BONUS : follow up email support.

Shorter, shared* or group* packages also available, talk to Karin to decide what’s best for you.
(*self-organised, bring a friend or 5)

Option to share with a friend – £200 additional fee.

Accommodation

Local accommodation available – click here for list.

What Others Say…..

“On numerous recommendations I booked myself in for an intensive week of lessons with Karin. I can’t believe how she transformed my riding and my attitude to being on horseback. We realised early on that I would benefi t from a few sessions of Feldenkrais and the change was extraordinary – I went from feeling that I couldn’t separate my seat bones to feeling like I was actually moulded to the horse by my deep seat and fluid movement. Her clear explanations, patience, attention to detail and humane gentle teaching coupled with her knowledge of the biomechanics of the human and horse saw me leave with a total change in my riding, hugely increased confidence and renewed vigour for something that I had been finding increasingly difficult and frustrating.” Elena

“First time I have been pain free for over 18 years! Absolutely amazing.” Shirley

“Riding has become a very interesting game of learning after I started working with Karin. I have read Mary’s books for ages. After Karin’s hands on help I was ready to really start a profound change in my riding. Between my visits to Overdale equestrian Centre I find the webinars from Dressage Training TV a great inspiration. I am a rather nervous rider, but with my new skills I am now able to get over my fears and ride safely.” Kirsi