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  • About
    • 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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featured Lady balanced fox trot

December 1, 20191038 × 672Relaxing The Lower Jaw And Its Effect On Smooth Gait
balanced fox trot with contact

Relaxation of mind and body has transformed Lady’s gait from hard trot to smooth gait.

NaturallyGaited.com | Jennifer Klitzke

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  • Improving Full Range of Motion
  • Lightness to the Hand
  • 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

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