09/11/2025
🫶 A fantastic 3 day clinic with Philippe Karl's School of Légèreté UK
• Sylvia Stossel was simply outstanding (As always! So humble, inviting and willing to share her experience with everybody. Honestly brilliant to watch her work her magic with each horse and rider)
• Kate Sandel from Soft and Sound provided us with an excellent taught lesson and a pedagogy on The Mise En Main, which explained the process beautifully (lots of💡moments around the room!)
• Josh Daly organised the whole event, provided us with an excellent taught lesson AND brought 2 horses, which demonstrated how the principles are applied to one horse in their very early stages of Legerete learning, and then the wonderful Norman who is already well established - watching Josh switch between these two entirely different rides was not only educational but also demonstrated his outstanding ability.
🐴 All riders were amazing. It is no small feat to put yourself into the spotlight in front of watchful eyes. Thank you so much for allowing us to be part of your individual journey and to be enlightened in this phenomenal school of learning.
🤲 Not only am I entirely convinced by this school of riding, but watching how it involves osteopathic techniques in ridden form is also now influencing my own hands on practice. It has revolutionised my understanding of the ridden horse and how their bodies function.
❤️ Please, if you are watching from a distance (as I did for some time) come along to a clinic. This is not an elitist school - you will find people from all walks of life, horses of all different breeds and ages, those with significant underlying pathology and at a range of stages of development. Everybody is friendly, inquisitive and highly supportive.
👀 Once you see it, the veil has been lifted. You cannot unsee it ever again, which is a blessing, and a curse in some respects. But certainly a blessing for all of the horses in your life 💕