It's Challenge time...
00
DAYS
00
HOURS
00
MINS
00
SECS
INTRODUCTION TO FELDENKRAIS FOR RIDERS CHALLENGE
The painless, mindful path to improve balance, suppleness, and coordination.
In this FREE 3-Day Intensive, you will discover key to rediscovering your body’s innate abilities for balance, stability, suppleness, flexibility, coordination, and body awareness.
DAY 1: Balance and Stability

DAY 2: Suppleness and Flexibility 

DAY 3: Coordination and Body Awareness


Meet with Catherine McCrum and Thomas and Shana Ritter Live at 6pm GMT+1 October 22-24 to learn how Feldenkrais can help you ride with more stability, suppleness, and ease.
New and Upcoming Courses
Sitting Trot Mastery
12-week Guided Program starting October 18th
The Sitting Trot Mastery Program is a transformative experience that will beautifully develop your sitting trot from stiff, bouncing, and rigid to SUPPLE, BALANCED, and ENJOYABLE.
- 6 Sitting Trot Theory Segments
- 6 Seat Imagery lessons
- 6 Feldenkrais lessons
- 8 Live Q&A sessions
- 12 weeks of continued support and feedback
- Lifetime access to the
- Facebook Community
- Lifetime access to all of the course materialsÂ
- BETA-member FREE Upgrade to next run of the course.Â
*Hot Seat Video Coaching add-on is available
Master the sitting trot
A 5-Day Online Feldenkrais Workshop with Catherine McCrum
October 14-18, 2024
Having independent aids is vital to ride well.
To have independent aids, you must FIRST have independent legs and hips.
Introducing "FeldenHip" a 5-day mini-course designed by Catherine McCrum, Feldenkrais Practitioner.
By improving alignment and body awareness through simple movement patterns done with awareness and attention, you can restore your ability to feel, influence, and control each leg and hip joint independently. You can even restore full range of motion to your hip joint, enabling improved capacity to move fully and effortlessly with the movement of the horse.
In this transformative course, Catherine combines concise 5-15 minute lessons focused specifically on the hip, that you can do at home. The lessons are complimented by a live Q&A.
Don't miss your chance to unlock the impact of this foundational work on your riding.
The Ritterize Membership
The Ritterize Membership
(previously EOTM)Â
Infuse your Training with Ritterize - your monthly infusion of Ritter Learning. Click on the button to learn more.
October 2024:
Flexion
Flexion
October is a month which, wherever you are in the world, you are no doubt experiencing the shifting of the weather. It is either turning warmer and heading into Spring and Summer if you are in the Southern Hemisphere, or it is cooling off and you are heading into Autumn and Winter if you are in the Northern Hemisphere. The beauty of this is that, regardless of where you are, this is the PERFECT riding weather and most likely, it has you thinking ahead to what you will be working on with your horse in the next months.Â
With this in mind, we have an amazing month in store for you in Ritterize.
Just like the seasons are cyclical, so is the nature of learning and training and this was never more true than with Dressage. For years we have mentioned this aspect in various trainings and articles, but we have never explicitly talked about this topic on its own and we think it is about time.
We wanted to talk about how you can best strategize your own approach to learning by understanding the learning is not linear. It has its ups and downs, but it also progresses like a spiral meaning that as you learn more, you will find that when you revisit earlier concepts, you see it all in a new light. In fact, it is extremely beneficial to revisit the core concepts periodically, because each time you do so, you will find you get more out of it. It deepens your understanding of the principles and entire training process.Â
This also applies to the training of the horse. Just as you are the student of Dressage, so is your horse and your horse’s progress follows this same sort of cyclical pattern. We are going to talk about how you can use this to benefit and enrich your training experience with your horse, and how this is actually in absolute accordance with the teachings of the old masters of classical dressage.Â
Additionally this month, we will be holding a deep dive Masterclass Training on Flexion. What is it? What is it not? What does it mean for the training of your horse? And even more importantly, what does it mean for the training of your horse right now, where your horse is right NOW in his/her training? This should be a really great training that helps to round out your understanding of bend and engagement, which when combined with flexion, lead to collection.Â
The featured riding exercise this month is called, “Time Warp.” Whether you’re a fan of The Rocky Horror Picture Show or not (no worries if you are not, it’s not necessary!), you will find that this exercise that is “just a jump to the left and then a step to the right” will be JUST the bit of fun that you are looking for to enliven your training this month - and also develop the skills your horse needs to improve flexion!Â
Catherine has selected a Feldenkrais lesson this month called, “Tilting the Head to Mobilise the Pelvis” which has the uncanny power to reveal the correlation between the lateral flexion of your head and neck and the way that this awakens the lateral flexion in all of your vertebrae. In the end, you realize how this enables you to sit more evenly on your seat bones and lighten either seat bones deliberately, with ease. What a powerful lesson to complement this month’s themes!
As always, we will wrap up the month with a Members-only Hot Seat session for the “Time Warp” riding exercise. This is a live session where Thomas will choose several member-submitted videos to to provide feedback, tips, and suggestions for improvement. Even if your video is not selected to be featured or you choose not to submit footage, you are sure to come away with tips and pointers from this session which you can put to use in your own riding right away.Â
Self-Study Courses
A Course About Straightness with Ritter Dressage
Achieve Straightness as a horse-rider unit and see the benefits in everything you do in your riding!
The Straightness Course is THE course to answer all your crookedness woes!
This is a course about achieving Straightness as a horse-rider unit. This is THE course to learn the fundamental biomechanics of straightness (and its opposite, crookedness) and how it impacts everything else you do in your riding.
The Introduction to Work in Hand Course
âś” Improve your relationship with your horse
âś” Easily teach new movements to your horse
âś” Improve your horse's balance, suppleness, coordination and body-awareness
"Hands-down” the very best way to introduce your horse to the work in hand.
Learn how to do simple transitions and exercises with your horse with coordination, communication, and confidence.
Get lifetime, fully downloadable access to the training,
The Better Dressage Through Straightness Challenge Recordings
You will get...
✔️ Recordings of all the Challenge trainings and Q&AsÂ
✔️ PDF copies of the slides and horse exercises
✔️ All recordings downloadable
✔️ Lifetime access
So that you can...
âś…Â UNDERSTAND the problem with crookedness, and the attributes of straightness and balance
âś…Â learn an exercise you can use with your horse to identify your horse's stiff and hollow side
âś…Â UNDERSTAND how the rider can contribute to the horse's crookedness
âś…Â learn an exercise you can use to diagnose your own crookedness
âś…Â UNDERSTAND how dressage training can be used to straighten the horse
âś…Â learn an exercise you can use to help straighten your horse
✅ UNDERSTAND the basis of a Straightness based method of training. Training that is better for your horse's health and better for your dressage.
All of this for only €27.
The Canter Blueprint Training Recordings
Learn more about the biomechanics of the canter and create a targeted training plan for your horse.Â
This training is all about the canter and the pre-requisites for a quality canter.
It will help you understand:-
âś” the training principles on which the canter is built
âś” identify the KEY areas your horse needs to improveÂ
So you can prioritize your training work and plan HOW you will approach your training from here on out so that you can HELP your horse to canter at his best.
Get lifetime, fully downloadable access to the training, plus the recordings from the Q&As we held each day for VIP members.
All of this for only €37.
The Path to Simple and Flying Changes Challenge Recordings
Learn how to train and develop your horse so that the changes become the most logical, easy thing to do.
You will get...
✔️All the recordings to the Challenge trainings and Q&AsÂ
✔️ PDF copies of the slides and horse exercises
✔️ All recordings downloadable
✔️ Lifetime access
The Challenge Proposition...
Anyone can train their horse to do simple and flying changes. Anyone.
❌ That means you don’t have to be a professional trainer.
âś… You just need to know the pathway.
 👉 We show you how to do that.
Feldenkrais Courses for Riders
FeldenFit 4-Pack (BEST DEAL!):
***Scroll down the page to purchase FeldenFit 1-4 individually***
Purchase all 4 FeldenFit Programmes and get a discount!
4 x €97 = €388Â
Today's Price = €297 (other currencies available)
FeldenFit 1Â is the original FeldenFit program with Catherine McCrum with 30 days of daily 7-15 minute lessons. Catherine uses her knowledge as a Feldenkrais teacher and blends this with her background in sport and fitness to make a flowing sequence of exercises that enhance co-ordination, agility, suppleness and effortless power.
FeldenFit2Â is the follow-up program to the original FeldenFit program. Join us and Catherine McCrum for 30 more days of daily 7-15 minute lessons. Catherine uses her knowledge as a Feldenkrais teacher and blends this with her background in sport and fitness to make a flowing sequence of exercises that enhance co-ordination, agility, suppleness and effortless power.
FeldenFit 3Â is a series of 30 lessons that specifically address how to take your riding to the next level. Lessons and imagery that improve your foundation and support from the ground up, movements that free your head, neck and eyes from long-held patterns of muscular contractions, experiencing how ribs that are springy and supple impact the independence of your legs and hip joints. Clarifying the wave like oscillations of the pelvis, spine and head that make riding the more dynamic gaits smooth beyond imagination. And finally 4 specific lessons to do in the saddle, or in the barn before you get on. This is truly the rider's series!
FeldenFit 4 - The Freedom Series! This fourth set of 30 days of daily 5-15 minute FeldenFit lessons. Designed specifically for riders the lessons in this programme are focussed on creating freedom in the saddle. In freeing our bodies from the constraints of poor posture, unconscious muscular tension, disturbances in breathing and poor co-ordination we as riders, achieve the ultimate freedom to feel and be truly capableÂ
FeldenFit 1
The original FeldenFit program with Catherine McCrum with 30 days of daily 7-15 minute lessons. Catherine has created a flowing sequence of exercises that enhance co-ordination, agility, suppleness and effortless power.
FeldenFit 2
FeldenFit2 is the follow-up program to the original FeldenFit program. We take a deep dive into the key concepts that we introduced in our first programme and we added the requests of the course members.
FeldenFit 3
Riders will love these sessions that clarify support from the ground up. When your feet, ankles and lower legs are well-organised, you can access the potential for both mobility and stability in your centre.
FeldenFit 4
The lessons in this programme are focussed on creating freedom in the saddle.
In freeing our bodies from the constraints of poor posture, unconscious muscular tension, disturbances in breathing and poor co-ordination we as riders, achieve the ultimate freedom to feel and be truly capableÂ
"How Can Feldenkrais Help Riders?"
A 7 day Free Challenge.
Together with Feldenkrais Practitioner, Catherine McCrum, we have put together a set of off-the-horse lessons that you can use to improve your coordination, balance, suppleness, and feel. In this challenge, you will do one Feldenkrais lesson per day. These lessons are pre-recorded so regardless of timezone or location in the world, you can do it on YOUR schedule and terms. Then, once you have completed the lesson, meet us in the Facebook group for a discussion about the lesson.
The Aware Rider Program
Parts 1 and 2. Feldenkrais with Catherine McCrum, fused with Dressage with Shana and Thomas Ritter.
What is the Aware Rider Exploration About?
How can we improve how we move ultimately with the aim of having a better relationship with our horses: One in which we can listen to ourselves as well as listen to them in such a way that they hear what we're saying. This is a conversation about the conversation we have with our horses.
