Caroline and April have their first lesson learning the foundations for Bridleless Riding.

Mia goes over all the fundamental tools for steering and stopping without a bridle, preparing Caroline to ride without touching her reins before they are then ready to take the bridle off.

Here's one exercise you can use for a who who is impulsive and extroverted, with a tendency to bolt. This can also be done in a school if you don't have access to a sand gallops or large outside space like this.

This lesson with Mia's long time student and friend Annette covers some useful tips for improving your position as a rider.

Here's an introduction in how we start teaching our horses to pony or ride and lead. This video covers the basics but is particularly helpful if you have a very dominant and pushy horse that you are trying to teach.

Here's how to help a horse who either doesn't understand the stick, or has an adverse reaction to it. In this video we show you how to build our horses trust in us, our intentions and our tool.

Performing Piaffe at liberty is exceptionally hard for horses as they don't have the wall, rail or halter to help them maintain straightness. Here's how we go about warming up for Piaffe on the rail in the halter first, before talking it to liberty.

The first exercise in our trailer loading simulations is The Crash Mat exercise. This simulates the feeling of the unstable floor that a trailer ramp may have. The aim of this exercise for your horse is to be able to cross the mat from an ask from you, with all four feet stepping onto and over t...

Watch Mia at home as she demonstrates how she goes about working a stallion in a team at liberty. Mia shares some tips on how to keep peace between the boys, and keep stallions focused on the work and not on other things! And although not everyone will be working teams with stallions in, you may ...

Watch three different horses have their first lesson on learning the lie down cue. Mia guides Serena and Sarah through the various techniques she uses to teach the lie down and helps them through some of the common issues that come up when learning this trick for the first time.

So you want to safely introduce food rewards into your horse training? In this series we cover how to go about introducing positive reinforcement in your training sessions. Positive reinforcement can be a power tool, so its important to learn how to safely and fairly use it in practise.

Introducing our new horse Fanto and how we are using food rewards to help him open up in training after a traumatic past.

It's really easy to accidentally train our horses to become crocodiles. As with everything, timing is everything!

Here are the steps of teaching "The Clockface" to a young horse, or a horse that is new to the exercise.

Using leg yield and half pass at liberty helps get some bend, relaxation and suppleness through the body before riding bridleless.

Sideways down the fence is an invaluable exercise for you and your horse. Not only can you use it to show your horse the boundary in a new space, but it's a great exercise for suppling the horse in motion through the ribs.

Once you have sideways down a fence, you can then teach sidepass over a pole.

Learn how to warm up for bridleless collection in this full length video.

Here's a fun exercise If you're looking to build on your drive and draw on the ground or at liberty. There are so many ways to progress this pattern, and it's an exercise you can adapt to suit how your horse learns - you can use it to help your horse get connected to a pattern, or change things u...

Bravo is an uncomplicated horse we've had in for starting, and in this video we show you how we introduce him to wearing the saddle for the first time.

Here's how we go about helping anxious and reactive horses when we start backing them with a technique called "Drunken Cowboy", which is the art of being purposefully clumsy in order to build a horse's trust and confidence with us and our tools.