Schooling with Poles Webinar with Claire Lilley

~ claire ballardie

If you prefer to buy your webinar without going to our on-line shop. you can purchase it here by bank transfer. 

Please email claire@wiltshire-wellbeing.co.uk  for bank details to make your payment, and allow up to 24 hours for the manual link to be sent.

Schooling with Ground Poles (on-line Webinar)

In this 3-part webinar, we take a look at the goals for pole work in relation to important aspects of the training of horse and rider.

We look at how to design suitable pole exercises for the level of training. They are a great way to  developing gymnastic work , with the aim of improving the horse’s way of going, in line with the scales of training.

Part one

Focuses on:

  • the aims and goals for using poles
  • Layout tips
  • The mechanics of the horse
  • Improving the gaits (walk, trot, canter)

Part two

Focuses on:

  • Halt
  • Half-halts
  • Improving transitions
  • Rein-back
  • Collection and Extension

Part three

Focuses on:

  • Flexion and Bend
  • Corners
  • Circles
  • Shallow Loops
  • Serpentines

Accessing your downloads

You will receive the recordings from Zoom once payment has been received.You will have access to the recordings for 30 days. If you have any issues with the download, contact me and I will send the link manually.

British Horse Society

2 BHS CPD POINTS are allocated for each of these 3 webinars.

To claim CPD points with the BHS, please click on the link below:

BHS Link for CPD Feedback form

Schooling will never be boring again! In this webinar, we will be taking a look at how to use  just 4 poles, a range of training options, explaining their benefits to schooling.

Further details can be found in the accompanying;

200+ Schooling Exercises with Poles book, and Training Programme Schooling with Ground Poles DVD

The Fundamentals of Dressage Webinar with Claire Lilley

stop go turn
~ claire ballardie

The Fundamentals of Dressage Webinar

If you prefer to buy your webinar without going to our on-line shop. you can purchase it here by bank transfer. 

Please email claire@wiltshire-wellbeing.co.uk  for bank details to make your payment, and allow up to 24 hours for the manual link to be sent.

All three aspects of this webinar, Stop, Go and Turn, are vital for all levels of riding, and all disciplines. We take a close look at the fine details of perfecting the basics  which are essential for riders of all levels, from novice to advanced.

STOP  examines the application of the halt and half halt, and the effect of the horse ‘taking weight behind’.

GO  works in conjunction with stop aids in transitions, and regulating tempo and rhythm. It explores forwardness and lengthening the horse’s strides.

TURN takes a detailed look flexion and bend, and positioning the horse for circles and lateral work.

Accessing your downloads

You will receive the recordings from Zoom once payment has been received.You will have access to the recordings for 30 days.
Please allow up to 24 hours for the manual link to be sent.

British Horse Society

2 BHS CPD POINTS are allocated for this webinar.

To claim CPD points with the BHS, please click on the link below:

BHS Link for CPD Feedback form

Further details can be found in the accompanying Stop, Go, Turn book and DVD

The Psychology of Horsemanship Webinar with Claire Lilley

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The Psychology of Horsemanship Webinar

If you prefer to buy your webinar without going to our on-line shop. you can purchase it here by bank transfer. 

Please email claire@wiltshire-wellbeing.co.uk  for bank details to make your payment, and allow up to 24 hours for the manual link to be sent.

An informative webinar for both coaches and riders with the aim of developing the partnership between horse and rider.  We will be covering the development, the challenges faced, and the goals of successful horsemanship.

The Psychology of Horsemanship by Claire Lilley

 

As human beings wanting to bond with our horses, we must use all our available skills: our senses, our intelligence, our physical body awareness and intuition. Horses are better at doing this than we are, so there is a lot for us to learn from our equine partners.

Historically, horsemanship is about developing mutual trust, respect and understanding and love: the foundations of a rock-solid relationship:

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Join me to gain a deeper understanding of developing mutual trust, respect, understanding and love for the horse : the foundations of a rock-solid partnership.

PART ONE: Equine Psychology (Understanding the horse), we take a look at the horse’s senses, primary responses and emotion.

PART TWO: Training Psychology (Understanding yourself as a rider)

The rider’s communication, training and learning from past experiences.

PART THREE: Relational Psychology (Understanding the partnership)

We look at the goals, the development and the challenges faced in successful horsemanship.

Accessing your downloads

You will receive the recordings from Zoom  once payment has been received.You will have access to the recordings for 30 days.
Please allow up to 24 hours for the manual link to be sent.

British Horse Society

2 BHS CPD POINTS are allocated for each of these 2 webinars.

To claim CPD points with the BHS, please click on the link below:

BHS Link for CPD Feedback form

For more information, take a look at The Psychology of Horsemanship book by Claire Lilley.

Claire and Perdido at the GBPRE Show Hartpury 2025

~ claire ballardie

Perdido and I had a lovely time at the GBPRE Show at Hartpury this July. We gained a lot of confidence from competing here last year, so my goal was to improve on last time.  This is a short summary or our experience.

My top tips would be:

  • Practice feeling relaxed all the time – handling, riding, to give you horse confidence in you.
  • Train for everything- dressage tests, loading, in-hand work, and get running. Sadly my running skills were not up to keeping up with Perdido, so I did let him down.
  • Get used to your wearing your Spanish gear- tack and clothes. Including appropriate underwear. (Thank goodness for M&S ‘hold it all in pants!)
  • practice getting your chaps done up (I knocked my time down to about 10 minutes from half an hour!)
  • Practice plaiting. By the last day of the show, my skills were quit passable.
  • Pack your grooming kit with everything you need to hand (including mints.
  • Drink water. All the prep-mucking out, running around with your trolley-is very thirsty work, so stay hydrated. Mind you, make sure you go to the loo before donning said control pants- I sympathise with the corset wearers of olden days who fainted a lot!)
  • Get a festival trolley to cart everything around (last year I had a squeaky wheelbarrow which drove everyone mad!)

Upgrading the horse lorry two weeks before the show added a bit of logistical stress, with putting everything in the right place for grabbing at the right moment.With wine stashed in the wardrobe, and food rammed into the tiny fridge, all angles were covered. The cutlery draw was just the right size for phones, keys and polos!

 

 

 

 

 

 

The planning paid off, ensuring calm transitions between events, with time for a sit down and a beer (kept under the sink) with my ever-patient husband in between, filming our progress.

 

Perdido is now an old hand at these away-shows, and was totally chilled throughout. Although I looked so serious in all the photos, I did actually enjoy it all! It was so lovely meeting up with old friends and enjoying showing our lovely horses.

After a long drive home, it was lovely getting back to recover: to the peace and quiet, and enjoying a hack around the fields. It took a couple of days to unpack the lorry again!