Riding is not just a physical sport.
It's a conversation between two nervous systems.
I started yoga to improve my riding.
I began practicing yoga to help with my position, my body awareness and my alignment in the saddle. It delivered all of that. What I didn't expect was how much it would change the way I showed up as a rider, as a teacher, and as a person.
Yoga works on three levels: physical, mental and emotional.
That's the foundation of how I teach.
The three pillars
My framework behind every class I teach
PHYSICAL
Yoga builds strength, flexibility, and body awareness simultaneously. It targets the muscles and movement patterns that daily life, and sport , either overloads or ignores. Over time it corrects asymmetries, improves posture, reduces pain, and trains the body to move with more ease and less compensation.
MENTAL
Yoga trains attention. The practice of staying present with breath and movement under physical discomfort is the same skill as staying focused under pressure in any other context. Breathwork specifically has a direct effect on the nervous system — it's one of the few tools you have that can shift your physiological state in real time.
EMOTIONAL
The nervous system doesn't separate physical stress from emotional stress. Yoga teaches you to recognize tension as information. That awareness creates a gap between stimulus and reaction. Over time that gap gets bigger. You become less reactive, not because you care less, but because your baseline state is calmer.
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‘I have been a student of Sabrina’s through the online library for almost a year now. I have found that her classes are easy to follow, approachable but effective, and I love that I can find any intensity or length of time in the mix to suit what I need. I’ve taken from many online and in person yoga instructors and by far Sabrina is in the top 5% with spot on targeting, an authentic voice, a gentle but challenging class structure and balancing real world science with the little dose of mindfulness that transforms your sessions into a body and mind practice instead of just a workout. I can see benefits in my riding already; more body control, more breath awareness, and more symmetry (which is amazing because I’ve ridden pretty crooked for many years). 10/10, this subscription is worth every penny and more!’
- Rachel, Dressage rider