With an emphasis on healthy outlines, slow training
and minimal equipment, the Humminghorse approach to dressage
retains a love of collected gaits, “through” backs, lightness to the aids
but doesn’t compromise a horse’s well-being to get there.
Dressage has become a specialty discipline in modern times.
But it was once the foundation training for any built-to-last riding horse.
Taking a little from the classical system, a little from autonomous movement theory
and a lot from nervous system science, Shannon emphasizes lightness, reciprocal communication,
back-to-front riding, strength training for healthy spines, correct alignment and free movement
that respects individual horse bodies and how they feel on any given day or at any given stage of life.
These methods have been used to help everyone from FEI hopefuls to trail horses to be calmer,
freer, more expressive and more at home in their bodies.
