Lightness Clinic with
Leanne Williams
22nd-23rd February 2025
24th-25th May 2025
30th-31st August 2025
29th – 30th November
Time: 8am to 5pm
Dressage in Lightness Clinics
Discover the HUGE benefits that are available to you at our Lightness Clinics, where you and your horse will enjoy a learning experience that will transform your equestrian thought processes.
This clinic will fill in gaps that will aid your goals, skill set and ultimate happiness and soundness of your horse.
These clinics offer an amazing list of advantages designed to enhance your horsemanship skills and create a lasting bond with you and your horse.
The groundwork consists of Cavesson work, Lunging, In-Hand Work and into the Riding, you'll learn how to develop your horse's posture in a way that aligns with dressage principles and promotes comfortable riding. Emphasizing long-term soundness, our approach ensures that your horse's well-being remains a top priority throughout the process.
Leanne will clearly explain the importance of understanding equine biomechanics, you'll gain invaluable insights into how your horse's muscles and skeleton work in unison to achieve balance and symmetry.
This understanding will not only improve your horse's performance but also contribute to their overall physical health and longevity.
Our intensive two-day clinics, available at an affordable price of $330, provide an amazing learning experience. With two semi-private lessons on day one and a private lesson on day two where you'll receive personalised instruction tailored to your horses specific needs.
Additionally, the opportunity to interact with an amazing group of like-minded individuals creating a supportive community that initiates growth and inspiration.
We can offer overnight yards and accommodations, allowing you to fully relax and enjoy yourself in the clinic environment. If you choose to attend as a spectator, you'll still witness the remarkable transformations taking place before your eyes and gain valuable insights to apply to your own horsemanship journey.
Unlock a wealth of benefits for both you and your horse at our Lightness Clinics.
Develop your riding skills, feel a deeper connection with your horse and promote long-term soundness.
Don't miss this opportunity to develop your horsemanship and experience the amazing advantages that will come from this.
Leanne's Five Steps Process to Training in Lightness
Leanne has dedicated her life’s work to the best and kindest training procedures for the most successful results.
It all starts with 5 simple steps...
Intro to Cavesson
Cavesson work aids horses in developing their strength, improving balance, and improving suppleness, all of which teaches them to use their bodies more sustainably and comfortably (for us and them) for riding.
By working on these points, we create horses with an increased performance life.
Lunging Inc Cavalletti
During lunging, we introduce movement whilst maintaining a relaxed posture while we assess the muscular development of the horse.
It is the first time we get to look at the natural balance of the horse while moving.
Including Cavalletti:
Cavelletti training on the lunge is a wonderful way of building confidence, co-ordination, bascule (lowering of one end while raising the other), strength and symmetry in your horse.
Mouthing Process
Part 1: Contact
Our method involves no backward actions on the mouth, instead, all actions are in an upward direction – as a rule, up the line of the cheek piece.
Part 2: Balance
For the horse to have a truly relaxed mouth we need to be able to maintain as much balance as possible laterally (right/left) and longitudinally (forwards/backwards) and diagonally in all positions.
Part 3: Bend
During halt, develop neck bend of 45 to 90 degrees to the body, without poll flexion. There should be no loss of balance during this process.
Part 4: Extension
Extending the neck forwards and downwards, so that the poll is lower than the withers, without losing balance over the shoulders.
In-Hand Work
Once the horse is confident with all initial exercises, both from the front and from the side (left and right) we can add movement (walk & trot) while working on the contact, balance, bend and neck extension.
We start with the basics but with work, you can begin all the lateral movements such as shoulder in, travers, renvers, half pass and walk pirouettes.
This ultimately leads to the development of the piaffe and passage exercises.
Mounting & Riding
The ultimate outcome for the mounting process that we have designed, is for the horses to stand so quietly that any person of any age, or ability, can mount.
Once we reach the ridden stage, we revisit previous steps while riding to ensure the horse understands that we are asking for the same things under saddle as we did on the ground.
The first four stages of training should not be forgotten and always be re-visited when necessary.
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