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    • What is a Naturally Gaited Horse
    • How Naturally Gaited Began
      • Tennessee Walking Horse Makana
      • Grade Fox Trotting Mare Lady
      • Tennessee Walking Horse Marvel
    • Naturally gaited duo receives US Humane Society Award
    • Humane Training Leads to National Championships
    • Age-defying Dressage with a Smooth Gaited Horse
  • Why Dressage for the Gaited Horse
    • Why Dressage is More than Trot
    • Differences in Dressage
      • Can German and French Dressage Co-exist?
      • French Dressage for Gaited Horses
      • The Missing Link to Lightness
    • How Dressage Improves Smooth Gaits
    • How Relaxation Improves Quality Smooth Gaits
      • Relaxation of Mind and Body Lead to Smooth Gaits
      • Relaxing The Lower Jaw And Its Effect On Smooth Gait
      • Smooth and Quality Smooth Gaits
      • Quality Step to Quality Steps
    • Bit Contact and the Gaited Horse
      • Bit Acceptance vs Bit Avoidance for the Naturally Gaited Horse
    • Pace & the Naturally Gaited Horse
      • Breaking Pace & Cross Canter Using Trot & Ground Rails
      • Video: Exercise to Break a Lateral or Four Beat Canter
      • Long and Low to Break Pace
    • How to Build the Top Line Muscles of the Naturally Gaited Horse
      • Neck Extension vs Long & Low for the Naturally Gaited Horse
      • Second Thoughts About Long And Low
    • Gaited Dressage Exercises
      • Counter Bend Balance for the Gaited Horse
      • How Shoulder-in Helps Break Up Pace
      • Lateral Exercises for the Gaited Horse
      • Benefits of Teaching the Smooth Gaited Horse a Quality Trot on Cue
      • Rein Back To Smooth Gait
      • Rollbacks and the Gaited Horse
      • Counted Walk to Piaffe
      • Jambette & the Gaited Horse
      • How My Tennessee Walking Horse Learned Spanish Walk
    • Research Proves Importance of the Chest Muscles for Balance & Collection
    • Collection and its Effect on Stride Length
  • Why Dressage for the Rider
    • Rider Position and its Effect on the Gaited Horse
    • Is Dressage Riding the Right Choice for You?
    • How to Ride a Gaited Horse
      • What is Gaited Dressage?
      • Gaited Dressage: The Feeling of Right
      • Gaited Dressage: The Feeling of Balance
      • Rider Biomechanics and the Gaited Horse
      • The Rider’s Seat: From Knee to Knee and Everything in Between
      • Gaited Dressage: Rider’s seat and direction
      • Gaited Dressage: Rider’s position and its effect on forwardness
      • Following Arms & Rubber Band Fingers
      • Gaited Dressage: Rider Position and Connection
      • Rider Position for Gaited Horses
    • Gaited Dressage Clinics
      • A Riding Clinic with Jennie Jackson: Dressage as Applied to the Gaited Horse
        • 2013 Jennie Jackson Dressage en Gaite Clinic
        • 2014 Gaited Dressage Clinic with Jennie Jackson
        • 2014 Jennie Jackson Dressage en Gaite Clinic
        • 2015 Jennie Jackson Clinic
      • Ecole de Légèreté Comes to the Midwest
        • Beginning Lessons in Légèreté: Following Hands
        • USA Légèreté with Linda Kaye Hollingsworth-Jones
        • Resolving Resistance with French Dressage
      • Gaited Dressage Clinic with Larry Whitesell and Jennifer Bauer
        • Naturally Gaited at Whitesell-Bauer Clinic
      • 2011 BLESS Clinic
        • B.L.E.S.S.(ed) in 2008
        • B.L.E.S.S.(ed) in 2009
        • B.L.E.S.S.(ed) in 2010
      • Northwoods Dressage Clinic features Gaited Dressage
      • Gaited Dressage featured at Western Dressage Clinic
    • Spooky Horse or Nervous Rider?
      • A Gift of Freedom
      • Facing Fear
      • Facing Fear, the Sequel
      • Emotional Balance & its Effect on the Naturally Gaited Horse
      • Rider Tension & its Effect on the Gaited Horse
    • Make vs Ask: What Kind of Rider am I?
    • Half Halt Awakening: Does the Half Halt Serve a Purpose for the Naturally Gaited Horse?
  • Gaited Horse Training
    • I Bought A Gaited Horse, Why Doesn’t It Have A Smooth Gait?
    • Starting a Gaited Horse
    • Introducing a Gaited Horse to a Snaffle Bit
    • Lunging a Gaited Horse
    • Pony a Gaited Horse
    • Starting a Gaited Horse Under Saddle
  • Smooth Gaits
    • Tips to Longer Strides and Smoother Gaits
    • Flat Walk & Running Walk
      • Flat Foot Walk & Flat Walk: How Can You Tell the Difference?
      • Tennessee Walking Horse Head Nod (or Head Peck)?
      • Flat walk: Head nod up or nod down?
    • Cantering the Gaited Horse
      • Collected Walk-Canter-Walk Transitions for the Gaited Horse
      • Improving a Lateral or Four-Beat Canter
    • Naturally Multi-Gaited [on cue]
  • Versatility
    • Gaited Horse Stories
      • A Trusted Leader
      • Sore No More: Rehabilitating a Big Lick Horse with Dressage
      • Gaited Dressage and Rail Class: Convergence of Two Worlds
      • Gaited Dressage Riding Recipe
      • The Critical Student
      • Is Perfection the Goal of Dressage?
      • The Lesson I didn’t Expect was the Lesson I needed Most
      • Misconceptions about Gaited Dressage
      • The Versatile Paso Fino
      • Every Horse is Good for Something
      • Gaited Cowboy Dressage: My Journey Begins
    • Showing Dressage with a Gaited Horse
      • Why Show Gaited Dressage?
      • Where to Show Gaited Dressage
      • Gaited Dressage Shows
    • Gaited Horses & Cows
      • Cow Sorting Gaited Dressage Style!
      • Video: Gaited Dressage and Cows?
      • Video: Cows and the Gaited Horse
    • Gymnastic Jumping with a GAITED HORSE
      • Starting a Gaited Horse Over Jumps
      • Forwardness is not an Option
      • Gaited Dressage: A Course of Ground Rails
    • Winter Riding with Gaited Horses
      • Naturally Walkin’ in Wonderland
    • Bareback Riding on a Gaited Horse
    • Naturally Gaited: Maps, Compasses, and Clues
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Dressage is More than Trot

Featured Posts

  • Does Rhythm Produce Relaxation?
  • Differences in Dressage
  • How to Improve Canter with a Gaited Horse
  • How Shoulder-in Helps Break Up Pace
  • Showing Gaited Dressage
  • Another Way to Ride to Smooth Gaits
  • Why Dressage is More than Trot
  • Can German and French Dressage Co-exist?
  • I Bought A Gaited Horse, Why Doesn’t It Have A Smooth Gait?
  • How My Tennessee Walking Horse Learned Spanish Walk
  • Neck Extension vs Long & Low for the Naturally Gaited Horse
  • Bit Acceptance vs Bit Avoidance for the Naturally Gaited Horse
  • Research Proves Importance of the Chest Muscles for Balance & Collection
  • Relaxing The Lower Jaw And Its Effect On Smooth Gait
  • Tips to Longer Strides and Smoother Gaits
  • Quality Step to Quality Steps
  • Benefits of Teaching the Smooth Gaited Horse a Quality Trot on Cue
  • A Naturally Smooth Gaited Merry Christmas
  • 2023 Happy Thanksgiving!
  • Many Circles Complete My Whole
  • 4 Walks on a Loose Rein
  • Leg Yield for the Gaited Horse
  • 2022 Merry Christmas
  • A Year in Review: Dressage with an Unstarted Gaited Horse
  • Correct or Absolute Correct
  • Starting a Gaited Horse Under Saddle
  • What is a Naturally Gaited Horse
  • Jambette & the Gaited Horse
  • Long and Low to Break Pace
  • Introducing a Gaited Horse to a Snaffle Bit
  • 2021 Merry Christmas
  • Pony a Gaited Horse
  • Happy Thanksgiving
  • Lunging a Gaited Horse
  • Starting an Unbroke Gaited Horse
  • Meet Marvel: Gaited Horse
  • Next Chapter of Quality Smooth Gaits
  • How Dressage Improves Smooth Gaits
  • Flat walk: Head nod up or nod down?
  • Forward Movement without Leg Aids

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