P h i l o s o p h y                    

Armed with theory, practice becomes meaningful...through practice, theory become fufilled.

Does the musician work the violin?Of Course not! We should alway endeavour to "play" the horse,then it will work for us.

A siziable portion of riding task lies in coming to grips with oneself.

Every master has a horse.

Rider's tact and feel cannot be taught...it is for each individual to develop these within himself.

Dressage is a fundamental obediance training..for the rider!

As we come to a deeper understanding of the horse's psyche, the more we discover how dependent we are on a horse's

generosity.

We should be particulary respectful of school horses, though they are often common creatures: it is upon their patient backs that we are led to higher levels of horsemanship. There is always much to be learned from any and every horse!

The horses aren't bent on "doing us in"; we can only do ourselves in because of poor attitudes or inexperience.

Riding has to do with the nature of the horse, not our whimsical preconceptions or pet theories.

All that glitters is not classical riding.

We should endeavour to always be students of the horse; a learning process that is never finished.

The line between very right and very wrong can be disconcertingly thin!

For the true horseman no equestrian task is too menial.

The challenge of dressage is not necessarily in having the best moving horse, but rather to get every horse we ride to move as well as it possibly can.

Patience.....

                                                                                         Taken from "Dressage Formula"

                                                                                         By Erik F. Herbermann