The Regulated Rider
Your horse isn’t the only one with a nervous system. The Regulated Rider helps you understand what happens in you around your horse, so you can notice sooner, stay present, and respond instead of react.
There are always at least two nervous systems in the conversation between you and your horse. Yours, and theirs.
Most of what we learn as riders is about the horse’s side: how to read them, help them, train them. Almost nobody teaches the other side.
This isn’t about blame. It isn’t “your horse has a problem because you’re anxious.” Your nervous system isn’t failing you. It’s trying to protect you. And you’re the one you can work with most directly.
The goal isn’t to be perfectly calm. It’s more awareness, so you notice sooner, and more capacity, so you have more choices about what happens next.
What you’ll learn
- You’re part of the equation. See the loop between you and your horse, without blame.
- Understand your nervous system. Three plain-language states, and your personal window of capacity.
- Learn to notice yourself. Find your “whisper signals”: the small signs that come before the big reaction.
- Build your regulation toolbox. Breath, grounding, orienting, movement and voice, combined into your own Regulation Anchor.
- Before you get on. The Pre-Ride Check-In: Me · Horse · Environment · Plan.
- When things go wrong. What to do in the first seconds after a spook, and how to stop adding fuel.
- Build real confidence. Not the absence of fear: trust in your ability to notice, decide, ask for help and change the plan.
- Become an attuned rider. Awareness → Capacity → Attunement → Response.
Everything that’s included
39 video lessons | 8 sections, 2–5 minutes each, so you can watch one before you go to the barn |
The printable workbook | A page for every exercise: your body map, Activation Map, anchor, Pre-Ride Check-In sheets and Confidence Evidence Journal |
The Regulated Rider ebook | The whole course in 8 illustrated chapters, with pocket cards to print or screenshot |
The Regulation Library | 10 guided audios plus the 10-minute Attuned Rider Practice, downloadable to your device so that you can listen anytime. |
About the Author
Robyn Schiller is a Certified NeuroFit Coach and World Champion equestrian as well as a 2 time World Equestrian Team member. Riding since before she could walk and showing since she was 5, she has a lifetime of horse experience – the last 30 being the wife of a horse trainer and worldwide clinician.
Robyn is utilizing her nervous system regulation knowledge to educate riders about how to shift their states at will through courses, online zoom classes and in person horse expos.