Welcome to the 2025 Black Fri-NEIGH Sale with Ritter Dressage. We have some special surprises for you this year. Check back daily. Different specials will appear on different days. And on the special day of Friday, November 28th, we will have some extra special deals that will only be available for 24 hours. You won't want to miss them!!!
So... Let's start with a good, proper warm-up. Shall we?
We all know the best work begins with a good, effective warm-up. So, let's get this party started. We have a selection of self-study courses available at a discount through Midnight on December 1, 2025.
Take a look and choose the right one for you. Or get them all! How fun!!!
Enter the code BLACK2025 at checkout to claim your discount
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The Pre-Canter Self-Study Course - 10% off!
Get a good foundation for your canter work!
It makes no sense to canter until your horse is ready. But what can you do to get the horse there?
A good quality canter depends upon a good quality transition into the canter. A good quality transition depends upon good quality before the transition: balance, straightness, and suppleness.
This self-study course lays out the whole process so you can take your horse from stiff, clumsy and not ready to well-prepared, both mentally and physically, for the canter work. It is all about building a solid foundation and giving your horse the foundation and skills he will need by focusing on the quality of his balance, suppleness, and straightness in the walk and trot work.
Covers these prerequisites and preparation FOR the canter and 10 exercises to help you step-by-step to develop your horse’s ability to execute a clear, balanced canter transition Plus a bonus on How to Improve your Canter Departs with theory training and 5 additional exercise patterns!!!
☞ This is an entirely self-study course. You can do it at your own pace, begin any time. Does not include Q&As or any support/feedback.
Normal Price = €99
⭐️ Black Friday Price (10% off) = €89,10
(other currencies available)
Enter the code BLACK2025 at checkout to claim your discount
The Young Horse Self-Study Course - 10% off!
Newly Available as a Self-Study Course!
This comprehensive 8 Module course with Thomas Ritter will guide you through the entire process of the Gymnastic Training of the Younger and Lower Level Horse, with simpler arena patterns and without advanced movements than in our other courses. This is an exercise-based course to develop the gymnastic development of the younger/lower level horse.
It is designed for any relatively green horse that has been ridden off the longe line on a 20m circle and around the whole school for a few weeks. Of course, it will be hugely beneficial for horses that are further in the training as well.
Includes ridden exercises plus some simple work-in-hand exercises to improve the horse’s understanding of rein aids, transitions, and sidestepping.
🐴 More than 50 exercises
🐴 Adaptable to any level of training
🐴 Most of the exercises can be ridden in all three gaits
🐴 Lifetime access
Normal Price = €297
⭐️ Black Friday Price (10% off!) = €268
(other currencies available)
Enter the code BLACK2025 at checkout to claim your discount
Contact LITE Self-Study Course - 10% off!
The perfect introduction to establish correct, elastic contact and get your horse “on the bit” even if you don’t know where to begin (and you find Dressage intimidating)
Modules 1-3 of the 10-Module Contact & Connection Course:
🍰 Module 1 - Why - Why you need rein contact, Connection and Rein Contact as a Whole Body Experience, Honest connection vs. Fake Outline, and the Road Map to a good rein contact.
🍰 Module 2 - Aspects of Contact and Connection: Balance, Pushing vs. Carrying, Straightness, Suppleness and Relaxation, and Conformation
🍰 Module 3 - Theory of Contact: What does “on the bit” mean? What is the right amount of contact? How much is too much? What is the right rein length?
- Self-study, learn at your own pace model.
- 3 full-length modules which take you step-by-step
- Theory, and instructional videos - pick and choose what you want to work on
- 6 Riding exercises - 2 for each module
- Do-at-home Feldenkrais lessons for your seat
- Imagery lessons to develop awareness, conceptual understanding, and feel.
- Curated yoga lessons to support you throughout the entire process.
☞ This is an entirely self-study course. You can do it at your own pace, begin any time. Does not include Q&As or any support/feedback.
Normal Price = €197
⭐️ Black Friday Price = €178
(other currencies and payment plans available)
Enter the code BLACK2025 at checkout to claim your discount
The Straightness Self-Study Course - 10% off!
Using The Straightforward Straightness Method
A complete DIY course about achieving Straightness as a horse-rider unit. This is THE course to learn the fundamental biomechanics of straightness and how it (and its opposite, crookedness) impacts everything else you do in your riding.
💎 Learn easy-to-use exercises to identify, address, and FIX your horse’s crookedness issues under saddle without having to spend months on groundwork first.
💎 Some of the exercises are designed to be done on the ground, but most can be done on the ground as well as under saddle. Nearly all were designed to be ridden.
💎 So, therefore, with The Straightforward Straightness Method, you do not need to stop riding for a year just to work in your horse’s Straightness. You can begin immediately with the ridden exercises.
☞ This is an entirely self-study course. You can do it at your own pace, begin any time. Does not include Q&As or any support/feedback.
Normal Price = €297
⭐️ Black Friday Price = €268
(other currencies and payment plans available)
Enter the code BLACK2025 at checkout to claim your discount
The Topline Makeover Self-Study Course - 10% off!
Whether your horse is rehabbing, aging, just starting out, or needs a postural reset, this non-riding course gives you the exact methods to:
Help your horse move better by building strength and balance where it matters most,
Use structured groundwork to improve posture, comfort, and long-term soundness,
Bring back your horse’s confidence and willingness — all from the ground up.
Through structured groundwork — including longeing, double-longeing, work-in-hand, and long reining — you’ll learn how to support your horse’s body in becoming stronger, lighter, and more sound from the ground up.
You’ll also get access to FeldenHorse, a unique bodywork approach created by Feldenkrais practitioner Catherine McCrum, to deepen connection, balance, and body awareness for your horse.
Normal Price = €297
⭐️ Black Friday Price (10% off!) = €268
(other currencies available)
Enter the code BLACK2025 at checkout to claim your discount
The Introduction to Work-in-Hand Self-Study Course - 10% off!
A Solid, Correct, Classical Work-in-Hand Foundation for you and your horse.
This special introductory course includes everything you need to know to be able to begin work in hand with your horse. You will learn how to hold the reins, how to hold the whip, and how to walk and carry yourself. You will learn the different kinds of work in hand, different traditions, and how to introduce it to your horse to help with your training. Then you will learn 9 exercises you can use to develop a solid and correct foundation in the work-in-hand.
“Work in hand creates a closer bond between human and horse, as they work quite literally “side by side”, and the human has to expend at least as much energy as the horse.”
IMPROVES YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH YOUR HORSE
This work creates a strong bond and relationship of trust and respect with your horse. We have successfully used this work to connect with horses who were shut off, shut down, and tuned out. It helps you to define the "language" of the work and nature of the relationship.
USE IT TO TEACH MOVEMENTS TO YOUR HORSE
Because you don't have the weight of the rider, and you are on the ground so you can more easily guide and influence the horse slowly, it is perfect for introducing and teaching movements to the horse such as shoulder-in, half-pass, turn on the forehand in motion, full pass, turn on the haunches, piaffe, and passage. You can also use it to troubleshoot problems.
IMPROVES BALANCE, SUPPLENESS, COORDINATION, AND BODY AWARENESS FOR THE HORSE
Without the weight of the rider on the horse, you can guide the horse into exercises which improve the balance (so the horse learns to more easily and readily shift the weight to the hindquarters), suppleness (so the horse releases blockages and resistance throughout his body), coordination (because you can go slowly, the horse learns to coordinate his body better), and body awareness (so the horse learns he has FOUR legs and he can use all of them!).
Normal Price = €97
⭐️ Black Friday Price (10% off!) = €88
(other currencies available)
