Jane Savoie - 35 Years of Her Best Work

Jane Savoie is a 3-time Olympic Coach and gifted horseman. Her ability to communicate clearly and accurately ensure her students get the maximum benefit of her years of knowledge.

I have had the opportunity to audit several of Jane's clinics, and I noticed how everyone in the stands was dead quiet. You didn't want to miss a thing! Her instruction was clear and easy-to-follow, and you saw a substantial improvement in the students she was working with.

I asked Jane how long it took to create such a large volume of information. She said "Thirty-five years." Good response.

It's so easy to get frustrated when you don't have access to good trainers or riding teachers. Or maybe you train with someone who tells you what to do but not exactly how to do it.

I own the Happy Horse course and I have used this valuable tool for every style I ride, including western and reining.

"A Happy Horse" is one of the most comprehensive compilation of 35 years I've ever seen. When you think of how much a clinic costs, this package is the best deal on the market today, at only $597 (+S&H). There are many individual clinics in this one package, and the best part is that you can go back and review the information time after time. Often, when you come home from a clinic, and didn't video it, you immediately begin to forget those little details you spent all that money on.

It truly is the best group of training materials I have found on the market to date! A valuable resource for ANY discipline. Here's what happy riders are saying about Jane's Happy Horse Home Study Course.

To learn more about 'A Happy Horse Home Study Course', click here.

Enjoy,
April Reeves

Look at everything that’s in the course:

• 20 DVD lessons that
cover everything from how to use your aids to the training
scale to all the movements and exercises from Training level
through Third level.

• PLUS 3 bonus DVDs
that cover some of the mental aspects of riding like exercises
to help you relax, using visualization and self-talk to
improve your skills, using music to help you with rhythm
and tempo…and to have FUN!

• 20 CD lectures that
cover the same material in the DVD lessons. Pop them in
your CD player in your car or your Walkman when you’re
exercising. The lectures reinforce everything you see in
the DVDs.

• A BONUS CD on Problem Solving
with the tools you’ve learned in the lessons.

• A 135-page manual that
summarizes the lessons in a quick and easy Question and
Answer, bullet point format. The manual also includes space
for notes and a fill in the blank section to really be sure
you absorb the main points.

• A Winning Attitude book
to help you get your ride and your day off to a great start.

Here’s a list of the some of the topics covered in the
course:

Lesson 1
How Do I Teach My Horse to Go Forward?
Whose Responsibility is it to Maintain the Energy of a Gait?
How Do I Make My Horse Take Responsibility For Maintaining
His Own Energy?
How Do I Decide How Strong My Correction Should Be?
What Are the Aids to “Go”?
How Do I Teach My Horse To React To Light Driving Aids?
How Do I Use Each of the Driving Aids?
How Do I Teach My Horse To React To My Driving Seat?
How Do I Teach My Horse To React To My Voice?
What Are the Aids to “Whoa” or Slow Down?
What Do I Do If My Horse Ignores My Light Aid to Slow Down?

Lesson 2
What Does Each Aid Control?
How Do I Use the Aids to Get a Specific Response?
How Do I Put the Letters Together to Form “Words”
or Movements?

Lesson 3
Why Do Riders Forget to Use the Outside Rein?
What Does the Outside Rein Do?
Are There Some Exercises That Will Help Me Learn to Use
My Outside Rein?

Lesson 4
What Is the Training Scale?
What are the Six Ingredients in the Training Scale?
When Would I Adjust My Horse’s Tempo?
What Is Suppleness?
What Parts of My Horse’s Body Need to be Supple and
Loose?
How Do I Know if My Horse Is Locked In His Poll?
How Do I Use My Aids to Supple My Horse’s Neck?
What is the Sequence of Aids for Suppling My Horse’s
Neck?
How Do I Know if My Horse is Stiff in His Shoulders?
What are Some Exercises to Supple My Horse’s Shoulders?

Lesson 5
What Kind of Bit Should I Use?
What Are the 5 Qualities of an Inviting Contact?
What Are the Five Rein Effects?
What is the “Work Area”?

Lesson 6
What is a Half Halt?
What Do I Need to Know About Connecting Half Halts?
What’s the Order of the Aids For a Connecting Half
Halt?
How Do I Teach My Horse the Connecting Half Halt?
How Do I Know If My Horse is Honestly on the Bit?
What Should I Do If The Half Halt Isn’t Going through
100%?
How Often Should I Give Connecting Half Halts?
How Do I Keep My Horse on the Bit During Transitions and
Movements?
Does the Connecting Half Halt Ever Last More than 3 Seconds?
Is the Connecting Half Halt Ever Shorter Than 3 Seconds?
What Do I Do if My Connecting Half Halt Isn’t Working?

Lesson 7
What Does Impulsion Mean?
Is Impulsion the Same as Going Forward?
When Should I Add Impulsion?
How Do I Go About Adding Impulsion?
What is a Straight Horse?
Is There More Than One “Kind” of Straightness?
What is Axis Straightness?
What is First Position?
How Can I Use First Position to Strengthen My Horse?
What Should I Do If I’m Having Trouble Getting First
Position When My Horse’s Hollow Side is on the Inside?

Lesson 8
Why Do I Want to Collect My Horse?
What is Collection?
Why is it a Challenge to Collect a Horse?
How Can I Tell If My Horse is Truly Collected?
When Do I Start Collecting My Horse?
What’s the Difference Between Connection and Collection?
How Do I Collect My Horse?
How Do I Know When My Horse is Ready to Start the Advanced
Lateral Exercises?
How do I Teach My Horse Collecting Half Halts?
What Do I Do if My Horse Ignores the Collecting Half Halt?
Have I Collected My Horse if He Takes Shorter Strides?

Lesson 9
Why Are Circles Important?
Why Must Circles Be Ridden Accurately?
What Do I Need to Know to Ride an Accurate Circle?
What are the Bending Aids?
How Do I Know Which is the Inside or Outside of My Horse’s
Body?
How Do I Mark Off an Arena If I Ride in a Field?
What are the Reference Points for a 20-meter Circle?
What Do I Need to Know About Corners?
How Do I Make My Horse More Ambidextrous?
How Do I Use “Benign Antagonism” to Help My
Horse Become More Ambidextrous?
How Do I Make the Hollow Side “Stiffer”?
How Do I Make the Stiff Side “Softer”?

Lesson 10
How Do I Ride a Serpentine?
How Do I ride a Shallow Loop?
How Do I Turn On and Off the Centerline or Do Turns Across
the School?

Lesson 11
What is a Transition?
What Are the Aids for Upward Transitions?
What Are the Aids for Downward Transitions?
How Do I Teach My Horse to Respond to the “Stilled”
Seat?
What Do I Do If My Horse Doesn’t Listen to My Back
and Voice?
How Do I Know If I’m Using My Stilled Seat Correctly?
What Do I Do If My Horse Comes Off the Bit During Transitions?
What Else Do I Need to Know to Do Good Transitions?

Lesson 12
What is Lateral Work?
What’s the Difference Between Leg Yielding and the
Other Lateral Exercises?
What are the Pros and Cons of the Turn on the Forehand?
How Do I Start the Turn on the Forehand?
What are the Aids for Turn on the Forehand and Leg Yielding?
What are the Pros and Cons of Leg Yielding?
What are the Patterns and Places in the Arena for Leg Yielding?
If I’m in Rising Trot, Which Diagonal Should I Post
On?
What Do I Do If My Horse Doesn’t Move Sideways Willingly?
Why is It So Important For Me to Keep My Horse’s Neck
Straight?
What Do I Do If My Horse Loses Activity?
What Do I Do If My Horse Rushes?
Why Is It So Important to Ride to Specific Markers?
Can I Use Leg Yielding to Solve Some Common Problems?

Lesson 13
What Is a Working Gait?
When Do I Start Lengthenings?
What Happens During a Lengthening?
What’s the Difference Between a Lengthening and a
Medium or Extended Gait?
What Determines Whether or Not My Horse Does a Good Lengthening?
How Do I Create Engagement Before the Lengthening?
What Are the Aids for a Lengthening?
Do I Ask for Lengthenings in the Walk?
How Do I Help My Horse Keep the Same Rhythm and Tempo?
When is the Contact Too Heavy?
Is There Anything Special I Should Do With My Position?
What Are Some Good Images to Have in My Mind?

Lesson 14
What Does a Good Reinback Look Like?
What are the Aids for Reinback?
How Do I Start Teaching My Horse to Reinback?
What Should I Do if My Horse Doesn’t Back Up Correctly?

Lesson 15
What is Counter Canter?
What Are the Aids for Counter Canter?
How Do I Introduce Counter Canter?
What Are Some Helpful Hints for Counter Canter?
What are the Most Common Problems in Counter Canter?

Lesson 16
How Do the Advanced Lateral Exercises Differ From Leg Yields?
How Many “Tracks” Are There in Lateral Exercises?
What is Shoulder-In?
How Do I Decide Which Gait to Use When I Start Shoulder-In?
What’s the Difference Between First Position, Shoulder-Fore,
and Shoulder-In?
How Do I Start Shoulder-In?
How Can I Tell If My Horse is Doing a High Quality Shoulder-in?
What Are the Aids for Shoulder-in?
What’s the Order of the Aids?
What Do I Do If My Horse’s Rhythm or Tempo Changes?
What Do I Do If My Horse Loses the Bend?
How Do I Get More Control over the Angle?
What Should I Do If I Have Trouble Controlling the Shoulders
and End Up with a “Head and Neck-in” rather
than a Shoulder-in?
Why Am I Tempted to Use an Indirect Inside Rein?
What Should I Do If My Horse’s Shoulders Feel “Glued”
to the Rail?
What is Shoulder-Out?

Lesson 17
What is Haunches-in?
Is Haunches-In More Difficult Than Shoulder-In?
What is the Bend and Angle of Haunches-In?
What’s the Difference Between Haunches-In and a Crooked
Horse?
What Are the Aids for Haunches-In?
What Do I Do First?
What Do I Do If My Horse Loses His Rhythm or Tempo?
What Do I Do If My Horse Loses His Bend?
What Do I Do If My Horse Loses the Angle?
What Else Can I Use Haunches-In For?
What is Haunches-Out?

Lesson 18
What is a Turn on the Haunches?
What Are the Aids for a Turn on the Haunches?
What is the Sequence of Aids for a Turn on the Haunches?
How Should I Introduce Turn on the Haunches?
How Do I Know If I’ve Lost Bend?
What Do I Do If My Horse Loses His Bend?
What Do I Do If My Horse Loses His Rhythm?
What Do I Do If My Horse Gets Nervous?
What Do I Do If My Horse Loses His Desire to Go Forward?
How Do I Know If I’m Using the Aids Correctly?
How Do I Control the Hind Legs?
What Else Can I Use Turn On the Haunches For?

Lesson 19
What is a Half Pass?
Where Can I Do Half Passes?
What Are the Aids for a Half Pass to the Left?
What is the Sequence of Aids for a Half Pass to the Left?
What Do I Do If My Horse Loses His Bend?
What Do I Do If My Horse Loses Impulsion?
What Do I Do If My Horse’s Tempo Is Either Too Fast
or Too Slow?
How Do I Know If I’m Doing a Half Pass With Good Engagement?
What Else Can I Learn From Half Pass?

Lesson 20
How Do I Prepare My Horse to Do Flying Changes?
What Do You Mean By “Collecting Half Halts”?
When Do I Give the Aids for a Flying Change?
What Are the Aids for a Flying Change?
Where is the Best Place in the Arena to Introduce Flying
Changes?
What Do I Do If My Horse Rushes Off or Starts Bucking After
the Change?
What Should I Do If My Horse Doesn’t Change Both His
Front and Hind Legs?
What If My Horse Doesn’t Change at All?
What Should I Do If My Horse is Tense?
What Are Some Exercises I Can Do To Get Clean Flying Changes?
What If My Horse Changes Late in Front?
What Should I Do If My Horse Does a Clean Change But He
Changes a Stride or Two After I Give the Aid?
What Should I Do If My Horse is Crooked in the Flying Change?