>>>Here is a video by Jane Savoie, on the Use of the Aids: >>>http://icehorses.blogspot.com/2008/04/use-of-aids.html
I'm on her mailing list, and I bought the "Happy Horse" set of videos recently. I've been pleased with the ones I've seen. This is from one of the videos - there are 22 in the set. She's a great teacher, really gifted at explaining things. I bought her "Cross Train Your Horse" books when they first came out - maybe 10 years ago? They are great and I really recommend the first book. The book is aimed at teaching a little practical dressage for horses not intended to be "dressage horses". It's amazing that she wrote a whole book about dressage (for non-believers like Janice!) and never got to "shoulder in" - I think she didn't get to that until the second book. Low level dressage is really simply about good riding, and good communication - it's not about fancy moves at all. I know that a lot of people have the idea that dressage is all about heavy rein contact, but how she teaches is similar to how I started learning - it doesn't HAVE to be about heavy contact, and it probably shouldn't be. Karen Thomas, NC
