Ride From Within - Foundation

The Magic Circle

The Secrets to Accurate, Effortless Turning, Circles & Bend

*Course Date: TBD $497

Teaching Feel: 6-Week Online Course

Riding an accurate and perfect circle, turning a corner or achieving “bend” in your horse can be a hit or miss affair and in the modern mainstream riding world is always taught using the external aids of inside rein and outside leg, with “looking where you are going” to generally address the quality and shape of your turn or circle. In this 6-week course we take all the mystery out of riding a circle and you will learn to execute them perfectly and accurately, every time, with powerful internal aids that make it so effortless you will think you are using magic.

Pre-requisite: “You are the Solution” Beginner course

Also, once you’ve taken a foundation course, you will have the option to join us for a 7-Day Live immersion.

Each week kicks off with a recorded Masterclass delivered by James, plus you will have access to Homework videos that will explain and demonstrate your homework practice for the week. Your homework will comprise both ground work for your body and mounted work with your horse. You have the option to post your homework videos in your private Facebook Group which will be given written assessment and personal fixes by James. We will meet mid-week live on zoom for an hour of Q&A where you can ask your questions directly to James on anything that is not clear to you and share your experiences.

Here's what you'll learn:

Week 1 – Founding Principles to Turning, Bending & Circles

Ride from Within is a new paradigm in riding and in this introductory week you will learn why it is so different to the mainstream approach and why the aids to bend and turn that you will learn, “speak” to your horse in a language they understand and can answer effortlessly and in natural balance.
Week 2 – Turning

In week 2 you will learn the “how to” secrets of timing, weight aid and position to turn your horse exactly when and where you want to.
Week 3 – Circles

Week 3 takes the new skills you learned in week 1 & 2 and applies them to turning continuously, to form the perfect circle of any size.
Week 4 - Bending

Taking the building blocks we learned in all previous weeks we take a deep look at Bending in isolation, without turning, on a straight line which is the foundation and beginnings of all lateral work.
Week 5 - Trouble Shooting

By now you will have come face to face with the most common problems that arise when learning the work in this course. In Week 5 James will present “the usual suspects” that you can use to troubleshoot and find out for yourself, when you do not get that effortless turn or circle.
Week 6 - Course Debrief + Q&A

Week 6 is entirely dedicated to your questions and your shares, which you will have by the bucket load if you successfully completed your homework! James always delivers in-depth answers that get straight to the heart of your most pertinent questions. Always hugely educational, this session brings the community together as we benefit from each other’s experience, insight, a-ha’s and problems, solidifying what we learned on this amazing journey together.

Here's what you get:

Weekly 60-minute recorded Seminars + mid-week Live Q&A with James
Weekly Homework videos are given out on the same day, with the recording of the live seminars
Private Facebook Group to share and connect with the Ride from Within Family and post your homework videos for feedback from James.

This course starts xx, and runs to yy. The cost of the program is $497.

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What Our Students Say

THANK YOU SO MUCH. The lecture as always was phenomenal. I repeat myself but you never fail to amaze me James with your ability to explain the inexplicable.

And the very specific homework ... brilliant.

Elaine Valente, Portugal

Cannot say enough about what a wonderful experience this was. Truly life changing! Thank you for the opportunity, cannot wait for the next course!

Jamie Shultz, IA, USA

What an amazing course this was. The deep focus and step by step exercises with each lecture (and video) really brought things together for me.

I have suspected from the first time I met James that he was offering something really special. I was right!

Leslie Carrig, CO, USA

Meet James Shaw

James Shaw is a new kind of riding teacher dedicated to helping people transform themselves and their riding by bringing forth a new paradigm in our physical connection to the horse which is a doorway into complete connection, mind, body, and spirit. This is a path to Mastery, the elusive harmonious, fluid connection we all dream of but for centuries has remained in the hands of a select few.

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