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Memberships
The Sound System of Training
Revolutionize Your Riding. Transform Your Connection.
Tired of riding in circles, unsure what to do next?
This membership is your roadmap to confidence, clarity, and real progress—in every ride. With over 100 audio-guided lessons, structured by training level and arena size (40x20 & 60x20), you'll never be without a plan again. It’s like having Ann in your ear—calmly guiding you through each stride, transition, and breath.
Whether you're returning to riding, refining lateral work, or building strength and softness with your horse, you'll have:
🎧 Step-by-step audio lessons to keep you focused in the saddle
🐴 Progressive levels from rehab to advanced movements
📐 Tailored arena plans to suit your space
🧠 Mindfulness, biomechanics & confidence-building tools
💬 Community support, live Q&As, webinars & personal coaching (Gold & Platinum)
This is more than a library. It’s a system designed to meet you where you are—and take you where you’ve dreamed of going.
Courses Available Online
The Starting Steps
Build Trust and Train with Clarity.
Ready to create a deeper connection with your horse—right from the ground up?
The Starting Steps is a compassionate, structured approach to in-hand work and lunging that helps you and your horse build trust, clarity, and confidence together.
Whether you're just beginning or looking to fill in missing foundations, this self-paced course breaks training down into small, achievable steps that lead to big results—without overwhelm or confusion.
You’ll get lifetime access to:
🎥 Short, clear training videos
📝 Written guides & tack advice
📐 Weekly arena plans for 40x20 & 60x20 setups
🎧 Audio lessons with step-by-step rider guidance
📣 and a supportive private group
Join now and start your journey toward a more connected, responsive partnership.
The Next Steps
Take Your Partnership to the Next Level.
You've built the foundation. Now it’s time to go further.
The Next Steps Program is a structured, six-week course designed to deepen your in-hand and under-saddle work—building balance, strength, and emotional clarity for both horse and rider.
You’ll develop key movements like shoulder-in, haunches-in, and turn on the forehand—from the ground up—while refining your coordination, communication, and confidence every step of the way. Perfect for green horses, horses coming back into work, or riders seeking clarity and direction in their training.
You’ll get lifetime access to:
🎥 Weekly step-by-step videos on in-hand work, lunging, and riding
📝 Written guides and tack setup advice
📐 Arena plans for both 40x20 & 60x20 layouts
🎧 Audio lessons with detailed coaching cues for hands, seat, breath, and focus
📣Private Facebook group
Whether you’re rebuilding, advancing, or restarting your riding journey—this program will give you the tools, structure, and support to train with confidence and clarity.
Webinars
The Art of Contact
“Contact is the gateway to your horse’s body, balance, and mind.”
What if contact wasn’t about pulling your horse into a frame —but about opening the door to communication, relaxation, and real connection?
In this two-part masterclass, Ann Montgomery takes you deep into the
true meaning of contact, starting with the rider’s seat, posture, breath, and balance, then exploring the horse’s jaw, tongue, hyoid, and posture.
You’ll learn:
✅ Why soft, balanced hands start with your core
✅ How to hold the reins (and when to break the rules)
✅ The real role of the jaw, hyoid, and tongue in your horse’s body
✅ What bracing, chomping, and heaviness really mean—and how to fix them
✅ How to feel contact through your seat, not just your hands
✅ Tack, bits, bareback pads, saddles—how your gear affects contact
✅ Why improving contact starts on the ground, and how to get your horse chewing and softening before you ride
The Straightness Blueprint
Align the Body, Unlock the Movement
In this detailed presentation, Ann Montgomery takes you through her proven process to assess and improve straightness in both horse and rider. You’ll learn how to see imbalances, feel alignment, and rewire crooked patterns with simple tools, body awareness, and in-hand or ridden exercises.
You’ll discover:
✅ How to assess asymmetry using photos and feel
✅ The effects of natural crookedness—and how to improve it gently
✅ Why your riding habits and sleeping patterns might be impacting your horse
✅ Simple exercises to rewire your own posture and awareness
✅ How to spot contact, hoof, jaw, tail, and saddle-related straightness issues
✅ When and why the thoracic sling and hyoid play a role in your horse’s balance
✅ Tools for teaching upright posture in hand, and how to carry that into ridden work
✅ Why slow, thoughtful movement can rewire the nervous system and prevent injury
“Straightness isn’t about perfection. It’s about creating a balanced body and a calm mind —for both you and your horse.”
Whether you're working with young horses, rehabs, or simply wanting better flow and rhythm under saddle, this 52 minute masterclass gives you the tools to understand, observe, and gently guide the process.
The Timing of the Aids
Ride with Feel, Not Force
If you’ve ever asked your horse for something—and got either no response or the wrong one—timing is probably the missing link.
In this presentation, Ann Montgomery breaks down the elusive but essential concept of timing the aids so that your horse can respond softly, clearly, and willingly. This isn’t about being quicker or stronger. It’s about being in sync
—understanding the horse’s movement and learning to influence it with precision and feel.
You’ll explore:
✅ The rider’s role: how to feel the phases of movement through your seat, legs, and breath
✅ The horse’s role: how they interpret (or miss!) your aids
✅ Footfall patterns in walk, trot, and canter—and when to give each aid
✅ The secret power of the pendulum leg and true half halt
✅ How your breath controls energy, relaxation, and transitions
✅ Why slow, deep practice rewires your nervous system and improves timing
✅ How your horse is also wrapping myelin and learning just like you are
✅ How to time aids in swing vs. stance phase for more effective riding
✅ The link between seat, contact, and breath—and why the horse prefers this to the hand
“The goal isn’t to ride with force—it’s to ride with timing, softness, and clarity. That’s when the real magic happens.”
If you want better transitions, smoother lateral work, more lightness, or simply a more joyful partnership, this is the missing puzzle piece.
The seat of the rider
“You’re sitting on a hanging basket of ribs. The more you understand that structure—and how to interact with it—the better your communication becomes.”
Have you ever been told to “ride with your seat”—but weren’t quite sure what that
actually meant?
In this powerful and practical presentation, Ann Montgomery breaks down what it really means to communicate with your horse through your seat—not just your hands or legs. You’ll discover how to turn your core into a language both you and your horse can understand. Ann draws from decades of experience, layering in functional anatomy, biomechanics, and real-world application to help you feel your seat—and feel
your horse.
You’ll learn:
✅ What makes up the “rider’s seat” (it’s more than just seat bones!)
✅ How the diaphragm, pelvic floor, thighs, and core create subtle yet powerful communication
✅ What your horse feels through the saddle—yes, even through the fluffiest fleece pad
✅ How to align and balance your pelvis to avoid blocking the horse or falling behind the movement
✅ How to activate the deep core and stabilize without gripping
✅ Why breath and pelvic awareness change everything—from spooky horses to precision movements
✅ How to use your thighs and inner calf to feel and support the ribcage
✅ What fascia, skin, intercostal muscles, and the thoracic sling mean for your riding
✅ Why horses prefer a quiet, aware seat—and how to build that awareness
This isn’t just theory. You’ll be guided through seat awareness exercises you can try
right from your chair as you watch, and carry into the saddle for immediate transformation.
Strategies for riding harmonious transitions
Build Balance, Lightness & Feel
In this in-depth presentation, Ann Montgomery explores how to ride transitions that do more than just shift gaits—they transform your horse’s body, posture, and mental state.
Whether you're riding a hot, reactive Thoroughbred or a slow-to-start Gypsy Cob, this session will help you uncover what might be missing in your transitions—and what to do about it.
You’ll learn:
✅ The difference between functional and destructive transitions
✅ Why balance precedes suppleness—and how over-suppleness is a growing issue
✅ The real role of the thoracic sling in lightness, and why lifting the chest must come before pushing from behind
✅ How to teach transitions from the ground before adding your weight
✅ Why breathing is a key aid—and how to use yours to influence rhythm and relaxation
✅ The critical timing needed for upward and downward transitions
✅ Why your horse may not be lazy or disobedient—just confused or uncomfortable
✅ How to problem-solve common issues like rushing, bracing, dropping out, or falling onto the forehand
✅ Rider fitness, intent, and posture: what they mean for your transitions
✅ Specific training techniques using cones, markers, serpentines, and half halts
✅ How to build transitions within the pace (just 1–2 steps!) to develop strength and finesse
“Transitions mean change —and when done well, they don’t just change the pace… they change the horse.”
This is a brilliant session packed with real-life tools, empowering insights, and strategies that work with any horse type. It’s not about drilling your horse into obedience—it’s about understanding the why behind every step and building harmony one transition at a time.
HALF HALT Mysteries
"After this webinar, you’ll never hear the words 'half halt' the same way again."
Ever been told to “half halt”—but weren’t quite sure what that really meant?
This in-depth webinar breaks down the half halt from the ground up. Ann Montgomery takes you on a journey through what a half halt truly is, how
to train it (both in hand and under saddle), and why it’s the cornerstone of communication, balance, and collection.
You’ll learn:
✅ What a half halt really does (hint: it’s more than just “half a stop”)
✅ How to teach it clearly—from groundwork to riding
✅ The biomechanics behind the movement
✅ Common mistakes and how to fix them
✅ How to use your seat, breath, and timing for true effectiveness
Perfect for riders who want to deepen their understanding, improve balance, and finally gain mastery over this essential yet often confusing aid.
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Ann offers a range of online learning options, including the Sound System of Training Membership, self-paced courses, live webinars, and personalised online lessons. Flexible and accessible, wherever you are.
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