I have to comment on a couple of articles which recently appeared in Holistic Horse – the Feb/Mar 2011 edition. The first one was about “Weekend Warriors  - Avoid battles during your horse time”. According to the dictionary, this phrase came into being in 1981 to reflect the average person’s increasingly hectic lifestyle. Free time has felt increasingly compressed, with the result that on the weekend you hit the ground running to get the most of your horse time. Often you pay the price on…

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One of the most common questions I am asked has to deal with both saddle ‘straightness’ and horse ‘straightness’ and whether the correct thing is to try and force the horse into ‘straightness’ with exercise or to accommodate their basic ‘non-straightness’ with a crooked saddle.…

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I am often asked for reference material and what I recommend for anyone wishing to educate themselves in a little more detail after they have a saddle fit evaluation with one of our saddlefitters, so I have come up with a list of books that I use as part of my ‘saddlefitting bible’. If any of you have come across a book that would be a great…

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A couple of months ago I mentioned that I was in California being filmed for an educational spot on the Bay Area Equestrian Network’s website. Well, the spots have now been completed, so check them out – this is part of the…

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I am so excited to be involved in this premiere event for Canada! We are thrilled to be working with Heike under our 'Saddlefit4Life' system in Europe and have organized this weekend together with Jen Anstey of Horse Sport publications to afford interested riders in our area the opportunity to meet Heike and watch her teach. Here is the information Jen has published - we hope to see as many of you out at the reception and weekend as possible! For auditors it's free; for others it's $20. This is… Continue