With an emphasis on healthy outlines, slow training
and minimal equipment, the Humminghorse approach to dressage
retains a love of arched necks, baroque curves and graceful movement
but doesn’t compromise a horse’s well-being to get there.
Dressage has become a specialty discipline in modern times.
But it was once the foundation training for any built-to-last riding horse.
Taking a little from the classical system and
a lot from autonomous movement theory,
Humminghorse emphasizes lightness, reciprocal communication,
back-to-front riding, strength training for healthy spines,
correct alignment and free movement that
respects individual horse bodies and how they feel
on any given day or at any given stage of life.
These methods have been used to help everyone from
FEI hopefuls to trail horses be calmer, freer, more expressive
and more at home in their bodies.
