Course curriculum

    1. What is this class and how to get the most out of it:

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    1. Introduction

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    2. Greetings Message from Deb

    3. Student Introductions

    1. 3) Importance of Breath and Self Awareness

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    2. 4) The Energetic Sandwich of Movement

    3. 5) Gravity is how we organize ourselves

    4. 6) Preparing to stand as an exercise

    5. 7) Movement has emotion

    6. 8) Movement Determines Self Worth and Value

    7. 9) The Relationship Between Action and Movement

    8. 10) Do you Know What Your Body is Doing?

    9. 11) You are Being Breathed

    10. 12) Deliberate and Conscious Movement Patterns

    1. 13) Reset Your Body and Nervous System

    2. 14) Homeless Emotions

    3. 15) Working with Gravitational Force

    4. 16) Enhancing the Relationship Between Breathing and the Body

    5. 17) The Foot as a Major Shock Absorber

    6. 18) Somatic Touch For Association Reorganization

    7. 19) Physiological Contrast as a Barometer

    1. 20). Discover Your Holding Patterns In Sitting and Standing Posture

    2. 21) Neurologic Reset

    3. 22) Association Adaptation

    4. 23) Feet Determining Leg Position

    5. 24) Reference Points for Correct Foot Function

    6. 25) Balance Begins With the Foot

    7. 26) Different Surfaces Affecting Proprioception

    8. 27) Specific Floor Exercises to Support Riding Posture

    9. 28) Alignment and Curvature of the Spine While Supine

    10. 29) Non-Habitual Integration

    11. 30) Do Not Push Through

    12. 31) Ankle and Calf Stretch Using the Thera-Band

    13. 32) Taking Awareness of Stretches Beyond the Stretch

    14. 33) Improving Leg Function on the Horse

    15. 34) How Your Feet Assist with Your Proprioceptive Balance on the Horse

    16. 35) Preparation for the Foot to Balance Through Release in your Joints.

    17. 36) How Does Your Body Feel?

    1. 37) The Pelvis as the Second Brain

    2. 38) Are you Aware of Your Body?

    3. 39) How Neutral Maintains Overall Balance

    4. 40) Variable Movement Through Range of Motion

    5. 41) How You Breath Matters.

    6. 42) Awareness Through Stretch

    7. 43) The Importance of Correct Alignment

    8. 44) Lumbar Vertebra Lengthening with Pelvic Awareness

    9. 45) Adapting Stretches for Different Anatomy

About this course

  • $700.00
  • 70 lessons
  • 12 hours of video content

Heel to Head Balancing is the cross training you need as a rider!

Any kind of rider:)

Did you know that changing a body posture and pattern cannot be functionally achieved just by being asked to do it, especially while you are on the horse?

Here are some reasons why this is so:

  • Every individual muscle is organized not only be your motoric system, but by your emotional (limbic) system.In order to reprogram a local or global movement through a muscle, you have to be focused, present and dynamically aware of the movement you require.
  • Focused attention determines the correct signals to the specific muscle, thus releasing the emotion associated with that particular muscle. Most people are not present enough to determine if they are using global or local muscles for specific movements, especially when riding. 
  • The associative neural pathways link a body posture to an emotion the minute the emotion is experienced. You can change the body posture and allow the emotion to release through conscious deliberate action. 
  • While riding a horse your nervous system is exposed to more than just the balance of staying on. When riding, if our body is not in full balance and therefore braced, the nervous system is more concerned with you staying on and survival, than changing a body position your trainer is asking of you. 
  • Your nervous system has to respond to movement, both expected and unexpected, velocity, balance, steering, use of your leg aids, visual acuity and so much more when riding, therefore: It is not possible to give the level of detailed focus and conscious decision to moving one particular muscle to elevate a shoulder for example, if the body is not already trained to do that.


This workshop reveals the techniques to organize and activate specific muscles in the body to implement specific movements. You will be amazed how soft, light, balanced and effective you will become as a rider and how your riding and relationship with your horse will improve.

Learn how to balance YOURSELF, from heel to head!

Every horse wants a balanced, self-aware, and self-correcting rider:)

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