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Equisensomotoric® training, ESM
- Key goals include healthy movement patterns, muscle development, trunk lifting, and serenity.
- Development of carrying capacity and straightness to prevent carrying fatigue.
- Focus on relieving weight on the forehand, training the hindquarters, and stabilizing the joints.
- Includes ground exercises, riding, in-hand work, and lunging.
- Includes work with the rotation theory of the horse’s spine and resilience training.
- Makes the connections between crookedness, back activity, collection, as well as walk, trot, canter, and gait easily understandable.
- Creates a muscle foundation for advanced training such as trail riding, cattle work, working equitation and driving.
- Can be learned online through 1:1 lessons and self-study courses, regardless of stall location.
Equisensomotoric® training consists of selected exercises that have helped my client horses the most in my teaching practice to build core muscles and serenity!
Johanna Thanheiser
Horse trainer, author of Equisensomotoric® training and TTT
Are you considering whether ESM training can help your horse? These are common questions at the beginning of training:
What exercises can I do to help my horse stop hollowing his back?
How can I lift my horse’s weight off the front and train his hindquarters?
What can I do to activate the trunk muscles and relieve my horse of carrying fatigue?
What exercises help my horse with knee problems, loose knee ligaments, or unstable knees?
What can I do about unwanted pacing and muscle-related irregularities in rhythm?
What can I do if my horse is stiff or difficult to sit in the trot?
Which seat and rein aids help with problems in the canter (cross-canter, etc.)?
How can I straighten my horse’s crookedness, balance him, and collect him with seat aids?
How can I build my horse’s back muscles?
Which exercises can help with the symptoms of navicular disease?
What can I do if my horse drags its toes?
Which movements protect tendons, ligaments and joints?
What could be the reason if my horse frequently buckles or stumbles?
How can I build my horse’s topline and reduce its lower neck?
Which exercises help with muscle shortening after lameness?
What can help my horse with recurring sacroiliac joint problems or swollen legs?
Which exercises help with unstable joints or turning hocks?
What can I do if my horse’s head is turned outward while lunging, drifts out, or always falls on its shoulder?
How can I help my horse if it is hypermobile?
How can I help my horse (including gaited horses, Icelandic horses, Andalusians, and PREs) if it goes behind the vertical or refuses to move forward?
What options do I have if my horse is unmotivated in the arena or just wants to rush ahead?
What exercises can I use to calm my horse if it’s skittish or traumatized by bad experiences?