Equi-Chair is a unique online movement class designed for all riders to improve body elasticity and seat awareness using a chair (no arms) and a scarf/strap. Exercises are designed to build a deeper, more harmonious balance with your horse, with no fitness level required and modifications always provided.
The Equi-Chair Year Subscription provides access to the entire year of our movement classes (12 live classes and 12 corresponding recordings).
Select this option only if you wish to subscribe for the full twelve months.
Equi- Chair is a monthly online movement class that is streamed live and the recording is available later as well.
All classes are designed to enhance the elasticity of the body and focus on the special needs for the rider. Many exercises will make you more aware of your seat when back in the saddle and give you tools to find a better balance and harmony with the horse. There is no “fitness-level” required, all exercises can be modified to your individual needs. You can do these classes on any chair everywhere.
The classes are attended by riders of all ages – the level can be modified to the individual need. They provide important understanding and connect very clearly to specific riding situations and allow the rider and the trainer to analyse the riders position and improve it.
Comfortable clothes that allow you to move and breathe
A stool, chair (without armrests) that is not too low.
A Scarf, towel or a Yoga Strap
Enough space around you to move your arms free in all directions
Open and curious mind to experience this journey into your body
Participating is “at your own risk”. It is your body, only you know how intense you can follow the movement class. I will give advice and modifications but cannot be held responsible for your movement during the class. By paying and signing up for these meetings you are agreeing to these conditions.
The Equi-Chair Year Subscription provides access to the entire year of our movement classes (12 live classes and 12 corresponding recordings).
Select this option only if you wish to subscribe for the full twelve months.
For January 2026, we are dedicating our sessions to exploring Pelvis Position and Hips. A well-aligned, supple pelvis is the center of your riding communication, essential for a deep, connected, and truly effective seat.
Improve your Connection: By stabilizing and mobilizing your pelvis, you'll eliminate unconscious bracing and deepen your ability to follow your horse's movement, creating a more fluid and harmonious partnership.
Stable Core & Elasticity: We will focus on improving hip mobility while simultaneously establishing the necessary core stability to maintain a neutral pelvic position, allowing you to absorb movement and flow effortlessly.
Effective Aids: Enhancing your awareness of the pelvis and hips will allow you to use your seat aids with greater precision and lightness, making your communication clearer and more impactful without creating tension in your horse.
For February, we are shifting our focus to Equi-Mat, moving our practice onto the floor! Working on the mat minimizes gravity and removes the balancing demands of sitting, allowing us to explore fundamental body mechanics and improve the awareness of your position with greater detail and feedback.
Improve the Awareness for Your Position: Working lying down allows you to instantly feel imbalances and correct your alignment, translating to a more symmetrical and effective riding position in the saddle.
Enhanced Symmetry & Release: We will use the floor as feedback to identify and release held tension or asymmetry, leading to a straighter, more centered seat.
Refined Core & Stability: Mat work is ideal for building subtle, deep core stability and understanding how your whole body connects to support your seat and transmit aids.
For March, we are dedicating our sessions to exploring Circular Movements. By introducing smooth, three-dimensional movements and spirals, we learn to optimize the energy and ride with less strength, allowing power to flow through a pliable, elastic body instead of being blocked by tension.
Optimize the Energy and Ride with Less Strength: Learning to move circularly unlocks efficiency, enabling you to use your body's natural momentum. This reduces strain and allows you to communicate powerful aids with minimal effort.
Enhanced Follow-Through: Circular motions improve the suppleness of your joints (hips, spine, shoulders), making it easier to absorb and flow seamlessly with your horse’s gait.
Improved Suppleness & Balance: These movements help refine your inner stability, replacing rigid bracing with flexible strength, which is essential for maintaining dynamic balance in all transitions and turns.
For April, we dedicate our sessions to the power of Breathing: Breath Creates Movement – Movement Creates Breath. We will explore how to use the breath in its many variations to enhance the aids and connect into the horse's movement. The breath is your deepest stabilizing and mobilizing force.
Enhance the Aids and Connect: Mastering varied breathing techniques allows you to regulate your core and nervous system, giving you a powerful, yet subtle, tool to refine your aids and sync effortlessly with your horse's rhythm.
Release Tension & Improve Stability: Focused breathing mobilizes the ribs and spine, releasing deep-seated tension that interferes with your seat. This creates a more stable yet elastic core.
Improved Focus & Calmness: Conscious breathing is key to staying present and calm, allowing you to maintain a quiet, effective seat and transmit confidence to your horse, especially during challenging moments.
For May, we are dedicating our sessions to exploring The Importance of the Fascial Back Line. We will focus on exercises to engage your backline to improve the horse's top-line. Your body's posterior chain—from the soles of your feet to your neck—is crucial for maintaining upright posture and connecting deeply to the saddle.
Improve the Horse's Top-Line: By correctly engaging your own back line (extensors), you create a stable yet elastic seat and spine. This allows you to support the horse's back and encourage the optimal use of their top line.
Stable and Upright Seat: We will work on strengthening and lengthening this posterior chain, replacing slumped or rigid posture with a light, upright, and sustained position that requires less conscious effort.
Deeper Communication: A connected back line allows your seat to act as a harmonious bridge between your core and the horse's movement, enhancing the subtlety and reach of your aids.
For June, we are dedicating our sessions to exploring The Importance of the Fascial Front Line. We will focus on exercises to strengthen your core and activate the horse's abdominal chain. This anterior (front) line of fascia runs from the tops of your feet up to your face and is key to flexion, stability, and deep core engagement.
Activate the Horse's Abdominal Chain: By strengthening and controlling your own front line, you gain the ability to use your core supportively. This translates to aids that help the horse lift and engage their own abdominal muscles, which is vital for carrying power and rounding the back (topline).
Strengthen Your Core & Stability: We will focus on true core strength—not just surface muscles—leading to improved pelvic stability and the ability to maintain a neutral, suspended seat without collapsing forward or backward.
Effective Balance & Communication: An active front line allows for controlled flexion and prevents the back from hollowing. This improves your dynamic balance and ensures your aids are transmitted clearly and directly through a stable foundation.
For July, we are dedicating our sessions to exploring The Importance of the Fascial Spiral Line. This complex line wraps around the body in a double helix, connecting the sides of your body from your head to your feet. We will focus on how this line helps to stabilize your seat for correct turns and lateral movements.
Stabilize Your Seat for Correct Turns and Lateral Movements: The Spiral Line is key to rotation and counter-rotation. By enhancing its efficiency, you can initiate turns and lateral movements using your core and oblique muscles without falling inward, stabilizing your outside hip and shoulder.
Prevent Twisting and Torque: This fascial line helps to balance rotational forces, ensuring your aids remain clear and symmetrical, even when asking for complicated lateral work like leg yields or half-passes. This prevents you from twisting or torqueing your horse's spine.
Dynamic Balance and Spring: We will work on the line's connection between your upper body and lower legs, giving you a springier, more adaptable seat that can smoothly transition between straightness and bending.
For August, we are dedicating our sessions to exploring Shoulders and Hands. The theme is: Correct contact starts inside the body. We will focus on the connection between your core, shoulder girdle, elbows, and hands, ensuring your rein aids are consistently steady, elastic, and precise.
Correct Contact Starts Inside the Body: By stabilizing the shoulder girdle and learning to use the large muscles of the back and core to manage the rein, you prevent the common fault of "riding from the elbow." This ensures your contact is steady, following, and light.
Elastic and Supple Arms: We will work on freeing the elbow, wrist, and hand joints to act as true shock absorbers, allowing you to maintain an elastic connection that follows the horse's head movement without creating jarring stiffness.
Improved Upper Body Balance: A stable shoulder foundation creates a quiet upper body, essential for clear communication. When the shoulders are balanced over the hips, your hands can deliver the most subtle, effective aids.
For September, we are dedicating our sessions to mastering the subtle power of the Half Halt inside your body. The goal is to refine your half halts and your aids by learning to initiate and support this fundamental movement-regulating action from your core, spine, and breath—not just your hands.
Refine Your Half Halts and Your Aids: By isolating and controlling the necessary muscular engagement in your core (Front and Back Lines) and spine, you can deliver a half halt that is more balanced, quicker, and less dependent on the reins, resulting in truly invisible aids.
Improved Balance and Collection: A body-initiated half halt helps you collect your own energy and stabilize your center, which encourages the horse to shift their weight backward, engage their hindquarters, and lighten the forehand without bracing.
Seamless Transitions: We will focus on the timing and sequencing of the half halt, ensuring it becomes a smooth, preparatory action for any change in pace, direction, or movement, making your riding feel effortless and predictive.
For October, we are dedicating our sessions to a focused Warm-up Class using a Scarf or Strap. The goal is to perform gentle stretches to expand your body and become more free when back in the saddle. The strap acts as an extension of your body, providing feedback, resistance, and support to deepen your mobility work.
Expand Your Body and Become More Free: Using the strap allows you to target stiff areas like the shoulders, hips, and hamstrings with greater control. This leads to increased range of motion and a feeling of lightness and freedom in your seat and aids.
Improved Positional Awareness: The strap provides immediate, palpable feedback on alignment and asymmetry. This helps you identify and correct small imbalances, resulting in a more symmetrical and balanced position for the saddle.
Release Pre-Ride Tension: These gentle, focused stretches are the perfect routine to prepare your body before mounting, ensuring you start your ride with minimal tension and maximal elasticity, ready to flow with your horse.
For November, we are dedicating our sessions to a focused Warm-Up Class using a Dressage Whip (or a similar stick/rod). The goal is connecting and strengthening your body by using the whip as a rigid tool to gain immediate feedback on symmetry, posture, and core engagement.
Connecting and Strengthening Your Body: Holding the whip across your shoulders or hips instantly highlights any twisting or imbalance. This direct feedback allows you to activate your core and stabilizing muscles for better structural alignment and strength.
Refined Positional Symmetry: The rigidity of the whip forces you to work toward balance. This helps refine the symmetry of your shoulders, hips, and spine, translating directly to a more central and effective seat in the saddle.
Enhanced Body Awareness: Using the whip as a physical marker improves kinesthetic awareness, teaching you to feel the difference between a collapsed/twisted position and a stable, engaged, and upright posture ready for giving clear aids.
For December, we are dedicating our sessions to integrating all our previous lessons under the theme of Balance in Movement, focusing on the three foundational pillars: Rhythm, Balance, and Suppleness. The goal is to learn how to ride your horse with the key elements of Rhythm, Balance, and Suppleness fully expressed in your body.
Integrate Rhythm, Balance, and Suppleness: We will practice exercises that demand the simultaneous application of these elements. This teaches your body to maintain a consistent rhythm while staying balanced and supple enough to follow the horse's movement.
Enhanced Flow and Harmony: By bringing these elements together, you remove the effort and blockages from your riding. You'll achieve a state where your body moves in complete harmony with the horse, making your aids truly invisible and effective.
Achieve Effortless Riding: This class focuses on the culmination of skill: using minimal effort to maximize output. A rider who embodies rhythm, balance, and suppleness can encourage the horse to perform their best with lightness and ease.