Another Dressage Clinic with Jessica

Did I mention how much I learn from just one clinic with Jessica? We had another round of lessons Friday night and Sunday morning at Wintergreen this past weekend. I seem to have gotten back into the habit of pulling on the dang inside rein again. All it does is throw Warren out of balance. Bad me! Jessica had us back on track again and then we worked on keeping quite with my over achieving right leg and staying tall and balanced in the saddle while asking Warren to stay soft in the bridle. I have been asking him to stay compressed but then releasing him to where he gets hollow again. It is a bad constant ask and give habit I have gotten into. I did not realise softening could be so subtle and still have the same reward effect without him falling apart. At any rate, we are now on the right track and I have more fine tuned home work to focus on the next few weeks. Motoring the back end up into the bridle, softening the neck and providing a release without letting him fall apart. phew. We are gonna be busy!