SO1
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I have just received an email saying my RS is now offering equine pilates workshops in their new pilates studio. 2 hour session with max 3 people plus a drink for £95
What would make you return to a riding school?
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Nasicus
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Nope! Absolutely hated and detested this. Made me very self conscious and have asked instructors that they ask the audience to go do something else. Bad enough when they just hang off the fence, but benches just encouraged them ? Appreciate not everyone is bothered by that though!
Tiddlypom
Carries on creakily
I've been to a local RS for refresher lessons after wonky mare's long lay off. They were great. They have a range of horses, and I've been very happy with the easy, kind mare that I have mostly ridden. I'm intending to go on their 1.5 hour escorted hacks to the local forest, too. I'll be going back for more lessons soon as I've variously been on the wonk myself this year with Covid and a painful bout of plantar fasciitis. Plus I allowed myself to pile the weight back on while feeling sorry for myself ?.
Back down to my riding weight now, picking up energy after Covid bout 2 and my first foray back into the saddle was on Saturday on a mechanical horse! I honestly wondered if I'd have the energy to last the full 30 mins, but I had a fabulous session and went from wobbly and thinking that if 'Rocky' sneezed I'd fall off ? to feeling back in the groove in the one session.
Next year I am definitely going to go on multi day trail riding breaks with Free Rein. I had hoped to go this year. Not going in 2023 is not an option!
Back down to my riding weight now, picking up energy after Covid bout 2 and my first foray back into the saddle was on Saturday on a mechanical horse! I honestly wondered if I'd have the energy to last the full 30 mins, but I had a fabulous session and went from wobbly and thinking that if 'Rocky' sneezed I'd fall off ? to feeling back in the groove in the one session.
Next year I am definitely going to go on multi day trail riding breaks with Free Rein. I had hoped to go this year. Not going in 2023 is not an option!
ester
Not slacking multitasking
2 hours of pilates does not appeal ??
Pmf27
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This.
criso
Coming over here & taking your jobs since 1900
£95 each or for 3 people.
SO1
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The class is for three people. 1 hour of reformer pilates and 1 hour of tower pilates and a drink from the cafe.
95 per person.
Apparently reformer pilates is more expensive because of the machines
https://pilatesbypamela.com/blog/why-is-reformer-pilates-so-expensive/
This is the woman who is running the workshops
https://juliedriverpilates.com/the-equestrian-pilates-programme/
95 per person.
Apparently reformer pilates is more expensive because of the machines
https://pilatesbypamela.com/blog/why-is-reformer-pilates-so-expensive/
This is the woman who is running the workshops
https://juliedriverpilates.com/the-equestrian-pilates-programme/
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MuddyMonster
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I'm sure she is very good but ouch at the price! I've done both reformer pilates and a course of equipilates and paid much less than £95 a session. Hope you enjoy it if you do sign up though regardless of cost
criso
Coming over here & taking your jobs since 1900
Still a quick Google finds reformer classes in London for £10 - £30 and the more expensive are partly due to being very smart gyms in areas like Kensington.
It's similar in price to a riding lesson and a good riding school horse would be even more expensive to buy and keep.
It could be interesting as a one off but if you signed up for a course of 10 as the instructor suggests, you'd be approaching a grand.
SO1
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I expect it will end up being something they occasionally do rather than people doing every week 2 hours is quite a long class. Maybe aimed at the yummy mummies waiting whilst the kids are doing the pony club mornings or afternoon.
Or they might do hourly sessions in the end. I expect as they can only get 3 people in there at a time it is a more smaller class than some advertised.
I think judging by the popularity of the week day day riding sessions there may be people with a fair amount of money riding there who do not work. They also have 50 liveries as well.
I can't see the pilates being massively popular though at that price and as it is two hours.
Or they might do hourly sessions in the end. I expect as they can only get 3 people in there at a time it is a more smaller class than some advertised.
I think judging by the popularity of the week day day riding sessions there may be people with a fair amount of money riding there who do not work. They also have 50 liveries as well.
I can't see the pilates being massively popular though at that price and as it is two hours.
scats
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I’m quite interested in having some lessons on a mechanical horse when this leg is fixed, just to get my balance back etc. Where does everyone recommend in the North west/Cheshire?
criso
Coming over here & taking your jobs since 1900
I can see the riding being popular as there are very few places, i can only think of a couple. And people will travel for riding, they might not for pilates as there's more likely to be one closer.
And there are so many places doing Pilates, Yoga and all the various combinations and variations including reformer, that it's a difficult market and many studios are struggling.
2 hours is a long time if you don't do it regularly. The yoga studio I go to does 2 hour workshops sometimes at the weekends, but the take up is people who already practise regularly. Interestingly I looked at the trainer's website and her philosophy is little and often.
They are focusing it at horse riders which gives it a USP but then that might not appeal to the Mums who dont ride.
I do think running pilates for horse riders is a good addition to their other activities, just not convinced in this form. Riders might benefit more from regular practice but shorter sessions.
Gloi
Too little time, too much to read.
Two hours of pilates and I'd not walk for a week never mind ride.
Gloi
Too little time, too much to read.
Jigsaw at Mawdseley have a mechanical horse that a lady I know who broke her hip had a go on. I don't know how good the place is but it specialises in disabilities.
criso
Coming over here & taking your jobs since 1900
To be fair if someone who hadn't ridden before or even not for a while, had a 2 hour riding lesson, I suspect they'd feel it the next day.
Little and often and build up slowly is a good philosophy for any new activity..
Glitter's fun
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I'm between horses & riding at two schools.
I go back to one only because it's very accessible to me. Without criticising that one, I make the effort to go back to the one that's difficult to get to and more expensive because 1) the instructor listens & tailors the lesson to what I say I want to learn (plus a bit extra to stretch me), rather than dishing out a standard lesson. 2) the hacking is good & varied & they take the time to ask where I've been before & take a new route if possible. 3) they weigh the riders that aren't regular & I know they turned away a (very cross!) potential rider who had lied about her weight when it would have been so much easier to take her money at the expense of the horse.
I go back to one only because it's very accessible to me. Without criticising that one, I make the effort to go back to the one that's difficult to get to and more expensive because 1) the instructor listens & tailors the lesson to what I say I want to learn (plus a bit extra to stretch me), rather than dishing out a standard lesson. 2) the hacking is good & varied & they take the time to ask where I've been before & take a new route if possible. 3) they weigh the riders that aren't regular & I know they turned away a (very cross!) potential rider who had lied about her weight when it would have been so much easier to take her money at the expense of the horse.
Pippity
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I'd go to learn skills that neither my horse nor I currently know. I'd love to try western or sidesaddle. I've seen have-a-go clinics advertised occasionally, but they all seem to involve you taking your own horse and hoping the instructor has a saddle that will fit. I want to try on a schoolmaster, not on my own just-as-confused horse.
Fransurrey
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For me it would be having an instructor who understands dyspraxia. This is the number one thing that puts me off lessons at the moment as my last instructor in a lesson had no understanding of how my brain fails to communicate with limbs! Years ago I knew someone who 'got it', but she's about 300 miles away.
DressageCob
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Reanne at Kelsall Hill
Cob Life
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I have weekly lessons with my instructor on her horses and within those I have two types: a lesson on a schoolmaster where we work on me, and lessons on a youngster where we work on putting the skills I’ve built on the school master into practice to school young horses