join us at overdale for a weekend or four day ridden course, with or without your own horse

This is an intensive learning experience, designed to be challenging, supportive and fun! Bring your own horse or ride one of ours. Each day you will receive a one hour flatwork lesson shared between two people, taught by Mary Wanless and possibly an assistant, or a 45 min private lesson with a seniour RWYM coach. On w/e courses your second (group) lesson is 'supervised flatwork', but on four day courses you also have the choice of jumping or pole-work. Each afternoon there is a dismounted workshop, which includes time for question and answer, and off-horse exercises that illustrate the biomechanics of correct riding. On four day courses we add video feedback.To complete the package add the group camaraderie, and excellent local pubs! The maximum group size is 12 people. You can have an extra lesson if you wish on the afternoon when you arrive. The longer course gives you more time to become familiar with the changes in your riding, and to start ingraining them; to make more changes, and to increase your understanding of how those changes influence your horse.

our weekend simulator course gives you the chance to ride our state-of-the-art riding simulator!

Arrive Saturday morning for a 10am start. After brief introductions get an initial 'read out' of your riding biomechanics on the simulator. A re-alignment from the coaches, both on and off the horse, starts the learning process. Their hands-on input meshes with the visual feedback of the mirrors and the simulator's computer print-out, making a potent mix! Intersperse work on the simulator with exercises on various pieces of equipment designed to develop balance and core strength. These are enlightening, challenging and fun! Both days are spent cycling between various activities, and remarkably it is often the off-horse learnings have the most profound effect on the simulator print-outs. You will come away with answers to the questions that have always bugged you, and to others that you had not even thought of asking, and will leave looking and feeling very different! As well as a new 'take' on riding skills, you will also have before and after photographs, and a sheaf of computer print-outs to show your friends! The weekend is suitable both for novice and nervous riders and for skilled professional riders. It ends at 4pm on Sunday.

You can also have individual 1/2 hour lessons on the simulator during a ridden course