Stephanie

“Scholars may Study. Historians may research. Readers may read. But nobody knows more about today, this very day, than the person that lives it.”
― Douglas Westerbeke, A Short Walk Through a Wide World

“Dressage is all about harmony: having a relationship with your horse where it has confidence in you so that everything you do together looks effortless and easy, like it's all happening by magic. But I can tell you now there wasn't a lot of harmony at the beginning.”
― Charlotte Dujardin, Girl on the Dancing Horse

“The rider who is constantly looking at her horse's neck has a problem similar to the one who clutches the saddle with her legs. She will always be in her horse's balance; she uses her horse's balance as a frame of reference because she never looks outside it. The rider who stares at her horse's neck is committed to being "on the forehand" and can;t influence her horse otherwise.”
― Beth Baumert, When Two Spines Align: Dressage Dynamics: Attain Remarkable Riding Rapport with Your Horse

“And yet the weird thing was when I started practicing it again, it felt so easy: in 2012 it had felt incredibly difficult, but with another four years' worth of experience, it was a breeze for both of us. It didn't feel hard at all. That was a measure of how far we'd come together.”
― Charlotte Dujardin, Girl on the Dancing Horse