Date/Time
4/23/2025
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM Eastern
Event Registration
Event Type(s)
Community
Education
Virtual
Event Description
NEDA is working hard to address the challenges to all aspiring riders, not the least of which is distance. To supplement our virtual education and community, we have added virtual shows for your horse, and a virtual fitness session for you! Join us in a session (followed by a Q&A) guided by USDF Silver Medalist Kirsten Gray to work on stretching and strengthening your riding muscles at home, unmounted. The goal is to create new movement patterns and deeper foundational strength that translates into more accurate aids and a more balanced seat in the saddle. 

Things to have handy for the session: a mat, chair, long beach towel, and two regular water bottles.
A 45-minute workout session will be followed by a 15-minute Q&A session.

Kirstin Gray is a USDF Bronze and Silver Medalist, as well as ASFA Pilates Certified Instructor. She has practiced Pilates for the last ten years, five of them as a serious and determined student of Tiffany DeMartin of Ridgefield, CT. Tiffany has instilled the importance of correctness of movement, searching for the work, isolation and strengthening of all muscles, and Kirsten has carried these concepts deeply into her daily life. 

Kirsten also involves PNF (Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation) techniques into the daily STBL work in order to initiate and build new movement patterns, neurologically and physically.  Kirsten is currently running 9 ZOOM STBL classes a week (and looking forward to more), in addition to running her Equine Boarding, Teaching and Training business in Connecticut on 37 acres!

STBL Pilates for Riders helps riders locate, isolate, and strengthen the muscles and movement patterns they need to be strong, supple, balanced riders. The goal is to create new movement patterns and deeper foundational strength that translates into more accurate aids and a more balanced seat in the saddle. Strength and balance are very empowering.  STBL has organically grown into a successful resource for the serious rider looking for structured ways to strengthen and develop their seat. 

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Setting: Live Virtual
UNITED STATES
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Details
7:30-8:15pm workout session with mat, chair, long beach towel, and two water bottles
8:15-8:30pm questions answered by Kirsten Gray of Stbl For Riders
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