KATRIN SILVA DRESSAGE

Since starting my own training business almost twenty years ago, I have worked with many different breeds of horses... In order to help riders connect with their equine partners, I use a supportive teaching method. Horse-crazy since I can remember, I grew up in Germany. I started taking dressage lessons as a child. I rode school horses, and soon also horses no one else wanted to ride. Instruction consisted mostly of imperatives... Some of them had serious trust issues with humans. Very few were talented dressage horses in a traditional sense. Yet, they all benefited from dressage-based training. I realized long ago that it doesn't matter what kind of tack we put on our horses, as long as it allows communication.