Discover the Advantage of Improved Breathing in Your Riding Abilities
Easy-to-do Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement® breathing lessons — created especially to enhance your riding.
While the focus here is on breathing, remember that in the Feldenkrais Method®, breath is not an isolated function.
How we breathe reflects how we move, how we feel, and even how we think. The diaphragm, ribs, spine, chest, and pelvis are part of one finely tuned system — when one part works in harmony, the whole self responds.
Feldenkrais called breathing the bridge between body and mind—when your breath flows freely, posture aligns without effort, movement becomes fluid, and emotions calm. On horseback, that freedom deepens your connection with your horse, creating harmony that they feel the moment you start walking.
Get Ready for a WOW feeling! Are you really riding at your best? You might be holding yourself back—and not even know it.
Ride with effortless posture—reset your breathing system to sit taller, lighter, and more balanced.
Unlock a softer, more effective seat—free your hips and pelvis for fluid, connected movement. Gain a seat that follows naturally.
Refine your aids instantly—clearer signals, softer hands, and better communication with your horse.
Eliminate hidden tension—stop bracing, release stiffness, and move with natural ease.
Boost focus and calm—regulate nerves and stay centered, even under show pressure. Tapp into a calm, centered state that supports peak performance.
Gain lasting results—gentle Feldenkrais® lessons create improvements that feel natural and automatic, working for you in the background.
A Very Common Dressage Riding Issue—So Often Overlooked, Yet So Easily Improved.
Breathe Easy and RESET Your Breathing Mechanism to Transform Your Riding!
Presenting DTM A Late Summer Breeze -
A whole new world of untapped riding potential awaits.
On-demand • Do at your own pace • Proven results
BEWARE - The “Good Enough” Trap
Most riders are missing the one fix that could improve everything—and they don’t even know it’s broken. i.e. The fish doesn't know it is in water...
Breathing isn’t just lungs and diaphragm—it’s a full-body movement involving your ribs, spine, chest, and even your pelvis.
When one part is stuck, your seat stiffens, your hips can’t follow, and your hands lose their softness. Potentially a missing link for you?
A Feldenkrais Method® breathing reset
It reawakens your system's natural harmony, freeing your posture, unlocking pelvic movement, and making your aids soft, clear, and instantly understood by your horse. It can also help you self-regulate in stressful situations—calming show nerves and bringing you back to balance when you need it most.
How Do I Do This?
With these 7 simple, proven on-demand lessons, you’ll reset and recalibrate your breathing system—breathing the way nature intended.
Restore your body’s natural ability to move, align, and perform effortlessly through subtle Feldenkrais® breath lessons.
Easily unlock all of these benefits—and more.This may be the simplest change you’ll ever make in your riding—yet it could be the most powerful.
And if it works for you like it has for countless others… your seat, posture, and connection will feel completely transformed.
Start now—and enjoy the benefits for years to come, your horses will thank you too.
Many top riders have this ability naturally AND many top riders improved through this very course!
A big part of the DTM success formula are these breathing lessons. In addition, these lessons will open a whole new world to just about any practice - riding, working-out, yoga, dancing, or even other Feldenkrais lessons will become a new and better experience.
DO AT YOUR OWN PACE. This ON-DEMAND VIDEO COURSE
This course offers a clear, science-based approach to improving your seat, body awareness, and riding longevity through exploration and focus on our breathing and how it relates to YOUR riding success!
- Do at your own-pace
- Life-long access
- Will help every rider!
- BONUS! Register now and get access to three bonus lessons!
What You’ll Get
In just 7 simple, on-demand lessons, you’ll:
✅ Sit taller, lighter, and more balanced
✅ Unlock pelvic freedom and a deeper seat
✅ Refine your aids so your horse instantly understands
✅ Feel softer hands and a steadier connection
✅ Ride with calm focus—even under pressure
Through Dave's guidance, these lessons will leave you feeling tall, upright, open in the chest, relaxed in the shoulders and supple in the hips, making for an effortless but impressive riding posture and seat.
These lessons will gently recalibrate and improve your whole seat and riding, in a way that only Feldenkrais can.
The theme of these lessons is lessons centered around our breath, but please remember that Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement® lessons serve to improve function and movement, creating ideal function of the whole body. By doing "breathing awareness lessons", we of course expect a sense of inner calmness and quiet alertness, but also expect better posture, ease in your own self carriage, easy uprightness, better contact, more solidly, clearer aids etc. Actually, the possibilities are endless!
Meet Debra
It was a hot one; jackets were waived. In the middle of what could have been a well-scored extended trot, Debra felt it again. The seconds stretched painfully long as she held her breath. Her seat stiffened, causing her ride horse to lose balance and rhythm — the effect lasted longer than she expected, making her ride horse appear to be lame of at least “rein-lame.”
She couldn’t help but feel embarrassed — struggling in public with something she knew she was the cause of, despite working with a personal trainer, physiotherapist, and Pilates trainer. Her seat and fitness issues had been plaguing her. Merely going to a show meant that she previously needed to shorten her stirrups from her home length, an obvious sign of tension. That day was no different: her legs lifted awkwardly, tension gripped her hips, she was out of breath, and by the walk she was basically panting just to catch her breath. Something had to change.
That same week, Debra contacted Dave Thind, for an online consult. During the session, many of her tension patterns were addressed, and she discovered the true source of her struggle: her breathing patterns.
After the consult, Dave prescribed some homework: A Late Summer Breeze. Debra reports:
“I never realized how much my breathing was limiting my seat and balance. After just a few lessons, my posture feels lighter, my aids are clearer, and I’m riding with a calm confidence I haven’t felt in years. My legs no longer grip and climb upwards, riding with my home stirrup length is now possible. My horse seems more relaxed and responsive! He instantly felt more relaxed and connected and no longer rein-lame, of course. Also, my right S.I. pain has disappeared, thank you! And I'm no longer tired after third and fourth level trot work, even for longer periods. It is like we are finally breathing together.”
SUFFER FROM TENSION CHRONIC PAIN OR SLEEP ISSUES? This series of lessons is the perfect place to start if you're looking for relief.
Your Investment: $249
"As an international clinician, I meet riders all over the world who could ride so much better—instantly—if they empowered themselves with this missing skill."
For less than the cost of a single clinic ride, you’ll gain a lifetime ability to ride with calm, softness, and true connection. This course is the same course top riders worldwide use to unlock their best seat, posture, and aids—now available to you for $249.
Includes three bonus lessons - offer valid until end of summer, September 21 at 11:59 pm EST.
Your physical challenges are real. And those affect emotions like anxiety.
"The emotion can not exist without the coinciding posture."
These issues aren’t just perplexing — they’re agonizing.
Sadly, these struggles don’t just go away — often they intensify, stealing away the pleasure of your ride, and disrupting the harmonious connection with your horse.
And those dreams. Pouring your heart, soul (and let's not forget, substantial finances) into your riding passion, only to feel like time and aging are eroding the joy and comfort it once brought. Self-doubt begins, the feeling that dreams are slipping through your fingers. It’s a gut-wrenching feeling, isn't it?
By the end of the course, you’ll be able to…
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Reset and optimise your breathing system—so it supports you naturally, without conscious effort.
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Ride with upright, elegant posture and an open, confident seat—stable yet free from stiffness, compression, or pain.
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Break harmful patterns like uneven rib breathing or one-sided abdominal gripping that quietly sabotages your seat and potential.
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Reinforce true skeletal alignment, correcting one-sided breathing that often leads to a crooked position.
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Let your pelvis melt into the saddle, allowing effortless balance and natural movement with your horse.
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Restore softness and resilience in your joints, so your body absorbs movement with ease.
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Stop unconscious bracing—replacing tension with flow and freedom.
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Calm your mind and regulate nerves, giving you focus and confidence in everyday riding or the show arena.
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Harness the proven Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement® method to unlock lasting improvements in your seat, posture, and connection.
Even for TOP professionals
"I had an injury and began to brace without realizing it — pulling from one side, stiffening in the saddle. These breathing lessons helped me reconnect with freedom in my seat and spine. Now, my posture is like before without effort. My influence and aids are subtle, better than before, and my confidence is back. Highly recommend!
Somehow with the injury and new seat problems I developed anxiety about performance.
At first I was also surprised, but many things had happened, and after all, I am also only human.
Also with the seat problems, the anxiety was never so that others could see it, but I felt it, and so did my horses. The tension came in the way of my focus and changed my feeling. I was always thinking, if only it could be again like it was before. When I told you this “secret,” you said, this is the right course for me. You were right! I am very satisfied, also surprised, and happy.
I still do the lessons at home, and before the shows—small or big—I make sure to do also the exercises from your other course. Now I always feel calm, centred, and effective, just how I knew it can be. It feels good, for me and also with the horses, and also the competition remarks agree.
I hear some riders use sport-psychologists or hypnotherapy for this, but for me, both did not work.
Thank you for your help in Warendorf, and also your easy home exercises with recordings, timely email correspondence, and private sessions online. So glad you were introduced to me—zum Glück! Now I feel very ready for the championship, and for much more. Danke, Dave!"
Name withheld for privacy but quote used with permission. International Rider and Trainer, Germany.
Treatment of patients to manage panic attacks and also helpful with insomnia.
Enjoyed the course. I found some interesting uses of the breathing techniques in my psychology practice. I am a Ph.D. Licensed clinical psychologist and treat patients with anxiety, pain management issues and PTSD ( as well as depression and relationship issues). I have also been trained in clinical hypnosis. I have been able to incorporate some of the breathing exercises in my treatment of patients to manage panic attacks and also helpful with insomnia. So not only has my horse benefitted but my patients as well. Thanks again.
Dr. Debbie Sacks"
AA FEI Rider, FL Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Dr. Hollis Day, (M.D).,
"You have to experience it to believe it. I have first-hand, witnessed and experienced powerful, undeniable and almost unbelievable improvement in both posture and motor function using the Dave Thind Method,” attested Dr. Hollis Day. Dr. Day, who is head of Geriatrics at Boston Medical, is a lifelong hunter/jumper competitor that now trains and competes in dressage. “Dave’s highly advanced knowledge of anatomy, biomechanics and how humans learn is something every rider can benefit from," she added.
Dr. Hilary Clayton (DVM)
“Dave’s classes are interesting, informative and FUN. Each class brings a new level of self-awareness in the saddle and provides us with tools to ride better – what’s not to like about that!,” proclaimed Dr. Hillary Clayton upon reflecting with her own personal experience doing the 6 lessons in Skeletal Strength. She also said “ I love the DTM focus on the pelvis which research shows is the key to riding success. His lessons will help all of us to reach our full potential in the saddle."
What Sets Us Apart?
DTM Late Summer Breeze is a pre-recorded, on-demand series of lessons taught by Dave Thind, designed specifically for dressage riders. The program focuses on breathing awareness as a powerful key to improving posture, self-carriage, balance, and the clarity of your aids — so your horse feels an immediate difference. Using the Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement® — a cutting-edge brain-rewiring method that enhances the connection between the brain and body through effective movement training, resulting in more efficient, effortless saddle ride.
Sounds exciting, doesn't it?
With Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement®, I’ll help you understand your skeletal alignment, showing how to work your body rather than against it. You’ll recognize your own natural patterns of movement that’ll reduce any discomfort with every ride.
You’ll be able to fine-tune your posture, boost your suppleness, and break down the barriers without letting belief systems about permanent habits or even age hold the reins — allowing you to continue your freedom to ride and unlock your timeless equestrian elegance.
Whether you're struggling with posture alignment, have pain/stiffness, or struggling with injuries, our program is designed for dedicated riders — just like you.
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Dr. Lauren Dembkoski Adelizi - Doctor of Chiropractic Medicine and Grand Prix dressage rider
"I often recommend this work to patients in my chiropractic practice as a tool to understand where your body is in space and to make cognitive corrections to change how your body moves in space.
Dave is a pioneer in marrying a technique that teaches body awareness to riders.
He is on the cusp of a huge movement that is going to sweep the dressage world, as we better understand how our physical body can be changed through cognitive methods. He has furthered my understanding of the changes that I can make in my body to be a better rider. I strongly recomend that you investigate the Dave Thind Method."
Stephanie Roy Osteopath D.O.
"With Dave, you will experience an incredible feeling of liberation when acute problems that other trainers have either ignored or have simply been unable to fix are dealt with once and for all.
Even problems that you have been trying to fix for years are quickly remedied, with minimal effort! And like magic, your horse who you thought was naturally heavy on the forehand, crooked, laterally stiff or even slightly off, suddenly becomes light, supple, straight and happy.
Cause and effect; Dave has simply become an expert. You will marvel at how big problems have small and easy solutions."
Got Questions?
Is this an exercise program? Pilates? Yoga?
How Does the Feldenkrais Method® Work?
Is this program only for advanced riders?
How will this course help me improve my riding skills?
I'm not suffering from any major pain or stiffness, is this course for me?
INTRODUCING
Your Ultimate Guide to Effortless Rides:
DTM Breathing Course - A Late Summer Breeze
BONUS! Register today and get three bonus lessons! A comprehensive 7-class series that targets every rider's common challenges and helps you go the extra mile. Tackle one of the most overlooked yet transformative aspects of riding: your breathing.
Through on-demand DTM Feldenkrais® lessons, you’ll gently retrain your breathing system to reset and function as nature intended—unlocking ease, stability, and fluidity in the saddle.
You’ll learn to ride with a naturally upright posture, supple hips, relaxed shoulders, and soft hands, while absorbing the horse’s movement with comfort and confidence. All from the simple power of breathing awareness.
Crucial for every rider, we’ve got it all covered in one convenient course for you!
You’ll get access to on-demand videos designed to arm you with correct breathing improving an array of automatic / behind the scenes human function with regards to movement and your athletic performance as a dressage rider — protecting your back and joints, restoring your youthful uprightness, improving your suppleness, and elevating your overall riding skills including the ever elusive concepts of feel and timing. SUITABLE FOR THOSE SUFFERING FROM CHRONIC PAIN
Christoph Hess on Horse Welfare Using DTM
German Master Christoph Hess, who is retired from his long-held position as Head of Education and Training at the German Equestrian Federation F.N., says of training horses,
“The most important part of the training of a horse is the training of the rider's position. No rider is able to train a horse properly when they have not trained their seat. The rider has to learn to find the right position in the saddle; balanced and relaxed - and to be honest this is very difficult.”
“Dave is an expert on schooling riders. He is brilliant in teaching the correct rider’s position in a friendly and positive way and his students have good positions in the saddle - he himself also! I suggest that many of us should use the opportunity to train with Dave. Dave‘s training will make you happy and especially your horses happy. A smooth sitting rider who is swinging into the horses’ movements is a horseman/horsewoman. This is important for the welfare of the horse. The better the rider’s position the happier the horse - and Dave helps his clients achieve good positions,” continued Hess who is a current F.N. Educational Ambassador.
Meet Dave: Your Trusted Instructor on the Path to Masterful Riding
Dave, a lifelong equestrian, German Equestrian Federation Certified "Trainer A" (Level III, one level higher that Bereiter) and an expert in the Feldenkrais Method®, knows firsthand the struggles dressage riders face.
From major injuries to frustrating stiffness, he's experienced it all and emerged stronger, thanks to his application of the Feldenkrais Method®. Passionate about teaching classical riding, Dave is also a life long learner - Dave has been lucky enough to train with some of the best, including: Martin Plewa (Former National Team Trainer, Germany), Rainer Jackel (Westphalian Riding School), Johan Zagers (Germany, Brazilian Olympic Team Trainer), Hartwig Burfeind (3x German National Professional Champion), Arthur-Kottas (Spanish Riding School), Robert Dover (Several time Olympian and Former National Team Trainer, USA), Charlotte Bredahl (Olympian, USA), Juan Manuel Vidal (Spain), Juan Matute (Olympian, Spain), Christoph Hess (Germany) Monica Theodorescu (German Olympian and National Team Trainer) and now Rien Van Der Schaft (Spanish Team Trainer).
He has also received training from many other top trainers, to whom he is grateful for having shared their knowledge.
He has also spent countless hours in the traditional role of a trainer educating horses and riders, however, his unique skill set includes expertise in the Feldenkrais Method.
To help even more people than tradition 1 on 1, Dave has tested dressage specific Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement® lessons and correctly sequenced groups of lessons (courses) that are proven to deliver. Results are within the global theme of the course and much more, sometimes unexpected results!
"Everyone is unique in their patterns, but humans all share common movement blueprints so regardless of where the starting point, doing mat work movement lessons based on evolution and childhood development that also incorporate the science of biomechanics are extremely effective." These movement lessons are done out of the saddle, from the comfort of home. "Improvements are made not only to biomechanics, pain- relief and excelling in performance, but riders experience more creativity, spontaneous reactions and adaptability to change, as well as more confidence. Seeing so many smiling and amazed riders in person, I knew I had to bring this to the whole equestrian community! Hence the DTM online courses for riders to enjoy from home."
Dave believes that opposed to attempting to make improvement while in the saddle, with DTM unmounted, we can stop our habits, disable being on auto-pilot, learn to "feel" more, learn better flow and timing, have options and reboot/recalibrate. Therefore faster, and more permanent, "rewiring" and results.
With 30 years in the horse world, Dave understands your challenges and dreams like no one else.
His passion? Sharing this transformative method with riders across the globe. For two decades, Dave has continued to be excited and amazed with the Feldenkrais Method and how riders can experience nothing short of miraculous, effective and quick improvements.
Whether you're battling discomfort, aiming for the next level of performance, or you just want to work on your seat through a replacement to longe lessons, he's dedicated to helping you achieve your dressage goals and transform your riding experience.
The only disappointment will be the you should have done this course sooner!
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Breath as a Bridge Between Body And Mind
Feldenkrais saw breath as the bridge between body and mind. When the breath is free, posture becomes effortless, movement becomes fluid, and emotions settle into balance. In riding, this harmony translates into a deeper connection with your horse — one they can feel instantly.
Our breath is the bridge. Let’s cross it — for your riding, your well-being, and your horse.
