Here are three questions for you:
- Do stiff hips, aching back, tense neck or unruly hands and shoulders frustrate your riding experience?
- Does the mirror reflect a rider struggling with posture and balance, rather than the vibrant, graceful image you hold in your heart?
- Do you find yourself worried that your best riding years might be behind you?
Perhaps some of these feel uncomfortably familiar,
but we are here to help.
Your physical challenges are real. And those affect emotions like anxiety.
"The emotion can not exist without the coinciding posture."
These issues aren’t just perplexing — they’re agonizing.
Sadly, these struggles don’t just go away — often they intensify, stealing away the pleasure of your ride, and disrupting the harmonious connection with your horse.
And those dreams. Pouring your heart, soul (and let's not forget, substantial finances) into your riding passion, only to feel like time and aging are eroding the joy and comfort it once brought. Self-doubt begins, the feeling that dreams are slipping through your fingers. It’s a gut-wrenching feeling, isn't it?
INTRODUCING
Your Ultimate Guide to Effortless Rides:
DTM Skeletal Strength Online Course
A comprehensive 6-class series that targets every rider's common challenges and helps you go the extra mile — from improving your stability, strength, and riding effectiveness while also enhancing your bone health and density. Crucial for every rider, and I’ve got it all covered in one convenient course for you!
You’ll get access to on-demand videos designed to arm you with correct movement training to safely absorb the concussive forces coming through your body — protecting your back, restoring your youthful uprightness, improving your suppleness, and elevating your overall riding skills.
Discover the Advantage of Improved Skeletal Strength in Your Riding Abilities
Safely and effectively absorb concussive forces, protecting you from any injuries with every ride
Develop natural, upright posture effortlessly — exuding confidence in and out of the saddle
Endure longer riding sessions without any discomfort or fatigue — Say goodbye to back and hip pain
Develop your ability to communicate effectively with your horse
Transform your performance & enjoy the freedom to ride without restrictions
Invest in your health and riding future, ensuring your timeless equestrian elegance
What Sets Us Apart?
DTM Skeletal Strength is a uniquely designed course, specifically for dressage riders, using the Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement® — a cutting-edge brain-rewiring method that enhances the connection between the brain and body through effective movement training, resulting in more efficient, effortless saddle ride.
Sounds exciting, doesn't it?
With Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement®, I’ll help you understand your skeletal alignment, showing how to work your body rather than against it. You’ll recognize your own natural patterns of movement that’ll reduce any discomfort with every ride.
You’ll be able to fine-tune your posture, boost your suppleness, and break down the barriers without letting age hold the reins — allowing you to continue your freedom to ride and unlock your timeless equestrian elegance.
Whether you're struggling with posture alignment, have pain/stiffness, or struggling with injuries, our program is designed for dedicated riders — just like you.
Get StartedBy the end of the course, you’ll be able to…
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Improve your postural alignment and stability that’ll prevent spinal compression, stiffness, and pain.
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Protect your body from concussive forces (coming into your body from the horse) through a proper weight-bearing skeleton.
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Reinforce skeletal alignment as your core foundation strength to avoid over-usage of your muscles.
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Distribute loads proportionally throughout your entire skeletal system for balanced and natural movement.
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Cultivate flexibility and resiliency of the joints to sustain your body weight while in motion.
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Boost your bone durability to withstand pressure using rhythmic pulsations, strengthening your body's natural armor.
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Restore functional springiness to your knees to support and carry you with every stride.
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Harness the power of the Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement®, maximizing your riding capability.
Meet Dave: Your Trusted Instructor on the Path to Masterful Riding
Dave, a lifelong equestrian and an expert in the Feldenkrais Method®, knows firsthand the struggles dressage riders face. From major injuries to frustrating stiffness, he's experienced it all and emerged stronger, thanks to his application of the Feldenkrais Method®.
With over 25 years in the horse world, each endeavor he took has been an incredible learning experience. Dave understands your challenges and dreams like no one else.
His passion? Sharing this transformative method with riders across the globe.
Whether you're battling discomfort or aiming for the next level of performance, he's dedicated to helping you achieve your dressage goals and transform your riding experience.
"Want to quickly improve your riding? I did! I know, it sounds like its probably impossible to do it in 10 days, but I have the literal video evidence that this is 100% doable.
6 hours of my time split over the 10 days before a show and I came out a more elegant, tall, quieter rider.
Real talk moment here - I am a plus-ish rider and am fully aware of it as I have always been worried about causing my horse back pain. I also have a spinal injury (spondyliothesis) from a multitude of car accidents.
That said, I really wanted to ride better before my first time out in tails and I was lucky enough that Dave Thind Method had a great program that I could do RIGHT before my first FEI show without negatively affecting me. I know, we DQs HATE change, what do I have to lose?
Coming up on my first outing at PSG I wanted to improve my sitting trot work and be quieter with my hands/more effective with my seat, enter DTM Skeletal Strength. In 10 days, my seat was more elegant, my hands were more quiet, and as a result we are working towards getting better trot work (which is totally not our forte).
This program is suitable for amateurs or professionals, as everyone will get something slightly different out of it and the better the rider you are, the more it will refine you....
When you watch my before and after, please remember - this is ONLY 10 days apart with only 3 rides in the saddle between them (sick toddler - that mom life is fun sometimes). If it improves little old me this much, imagine what amazing things it can do to help you (professional, amateur or somewhere in the middle!)
- Kristen Scott-Crocker, newly USDF Silver Medalist, AA, FL (see her full video review below).
