Feeling not so blessed with blisters in the saddle?

“It felt like … we were merging into one being. Oooo is this what you mean by centaur riding?” Yes Emma, that’s what I’m talking about and it gets even better. 🙂

Emma is one of the many competent folk who come into our community here, looking for something special and finding more than they bargained for.

She had previously experienced painful rubbing when she rode. She was in a group doing our Ease and Grace program, only a few weeks in and she was flying ahead in her self paced Fast Track riding seat lessons when she wrote these two messages to us.

“I was able to ride Gemma today. It was freaking awesome! I got stretchy walk trot transitions entirely from seat (I feel like “seat” doesn’t do it justice, it’s more from my whole body lol). And my walk canter transitions were soooo much easier than normal. It was so beautiful to feel her excitement bubbling up through me as we started the canter work.

I normally have to work hard (in the conversation) to get her to stretch in left lead canter, but today it was there immediately. It felt less like a conversation, and more like we were merging into one being. Ooohhh, is this what you mean by centaur riding??

And no rubbing! I still can’t believe it. I have ridden this mare for almost two years and I would get an awful rub in the first five minutes EVERY time (I used to ride through it and give myself awful wounds. The last two rides — not a single bit of chafing at all!”

How do we achieve that kind of progress so fast?

Our key to success is that we take people off their horses so they focus completely on themselves. First focus is the seat bones, then the rest of your body – steadily releasing whatever’s blocking your riding from flowing naturally with your horse, using our trademark Release Re-Learn and Re-Program.

• Release – get rid of whatever’s in the way of your beautifully connected riding – clearing up the unevennesses, clearing up whatever the posture problem in whatever part of your mind and body is causing you to feel less than deeply connected to your horse. As Emma noticed, you sure don’t rub your butt in your perfect riding seat!

• Re-Learn – in the case of re-learning a riding seat, we put you back on your horse in a way that you’ll wonder why riding hasn’t always been learned so smooth and easily.

• Re-Program – each step of your progress becomes your your new normal by re-programming your muscle memory and your brain’s neural pathways so that you don’t have to practice that step over and over again to get it right. You can enjoy your new steps together instead.

Release, Re-Learn and Re-Program – one of the keys to Effortless Harmony.

Emma’s second message:

“Oh my goodness! I just did the Connecting Heaven and Earth lesson and it was AHMAZING. Last year I made huge improvements in my seat and riding posture because I was able to take bareback lunge lessons, three times a week, on an absolutely amazing school master, for six months (pretty ideal). Doing one session of Connecting Heaven and Earth was just as good as, IF NOT BETTER than multiple bareback lessons. I think I found a spot of tension in my mid spine that has me leaning too far back — an issue I’ve not been able to fix no matter how much bareback riding I did.

Yay! This course is so awesome! Thank you!”

“Connecting heaven and earth in the saddle” – are you rolling your eyes even just a leeeetle at the way I describe that Fast Track lesson? I look forward to hearing if you still think it’s a bit much when you’ve experienced it for yourself!

I’m still smiling here as I re-read Emma’s messages, cos I can’t help myself thinking “I told you so.” 🙂 14 years ago I wrote that the Fast Track to Brilliant Riding program would save people a ton of money and years of practicing. Then we hear from Emma here – three times a week bareback lunging lessons for roughly 26 weeks = upwards of 70 painful riding lessons over 6 months. My goodness this young lady was dedicated to put herself through so much pain to improve her riding!

Emma found centaur riding and deep harmony with her horse in just a few weeks – and in an online program that she didn’t even need to leave home for and (if you want to be able to justify it) she got that centaur riding and deep harmony with her horse for a fraction of the cost of those lessons and that was only a tiny way into the program. We’ll see if we can persuade her to tell you about her difficult horse who previously had no kind of comfort or even acceptance of humans at all, who took a lot longer than a few weeks for his transformation. That’s Blizzard with Emma in today’s photo.

Here’s the exciting opportunity for you. Early in 2026, as a one off, we’re going to add some weekly lessons to Fast Track in a very special way.

Get the jump on 2026’s special event of the year before we even launch it!

Fast Track to Brilliant Riding – inclusive of 8 weeks live guidance to speed you to Effortless Harmony. Your choice, on the ground and in the saddle.

Anyone who picks up the Fast Track program before Christmas, gets that $600, 8 week live event as a bonus. You can get a jump on those limited spaces now while we’re still in the pre-launch phase, be eligible for that bonus and speed into the joy and effortless harmony that’s possible when you connect to the soul of a horse.

(Please note – folks who are already on Fast Track will receive the recordings as a gift. Happy Christmas!)

The Fast Track to Brilliant Riding