Carla’s teachings play in my brain on every ride. She focuses on the physical and mental connection with your horse, following your horse’s movement, balance, straightness, and developing a soft, steady contact with your horse’s mouth. She is patient, organized, and an excellent problem solver and communicator. She is also able to install confidence, patience and celebrate small improvements. Her course changes your riding and experience with your horse!

I had no idea how breath effects our entire body. Its very interesting. I have been practicing the different techniques each day and are feeling the benefits in and out of the saddle. 

Did you know that you can stop your horse from a canter just with your breath? That you can calm a spooking horse (and yourself) by breathing a certain way? That you can wake up and energize a sluggish one with how you breathe?

I signed up for Carla’s Energetic Oneness Program because I needed to build my confidence.  Being in my seventies has made me more worried about being injured and Carla’s course gave me strategies for acknowledging my fear and understanding that some of these fears were related to incidents in my past that did not involve horses.

I just wanted to share with you that I had an enjoyable, relaxed ride on Dalia today. I was able to breathe and relax my legs down. She really responds when I create the rhythm in myself.

Hi Carla, thanks so much for your principles of intuitive riding course, I have just gone through a couple of the modules & the one on seat bones was just so awesome , I have never actually sat on my hands like that & it was just so good to feel just what the horse would feel on their backs.

I have been loving my video assessments with Carla. I learn so much because we are both watching the same video of me riding. I can see exactly what my horse and I are doing. It’s helped me correct both crookedness in myself and straightness in my horse.

Thank you for a wonderful morning with so much good stuff to learn and remember. Tonic says thank you as well, we had a wonderful ride this afternoon.

“Everyone should take this class. The class has helped me in my everyday movements.”

“After a car accident a few years ago, I have felt nauseous when riding. It made riding uncomfortable, and I wasn’t really enjoying the rides as much as I used to. After only two weeks of the Rider Balance Bootcamp, I did a 2-hour trail ride without getting nauseous. So happy! “