Finishing the Book/Achieving Real Canter

I'm on the home stretch! Working hard on finishing my book, The Adult Longeing Guide, which is a compilation of longeing exercises for everyone.

It's been fun to write- I collected the exercises during teaching by wearing my digital recorder in my pocket, since lots of times I'd have a student doing this and that and then forget to come in the house and write it down.

Do you have a favorite training exercise? I'd love to hear about it. What do you like to do to warm up before riding? How do stretch out on horseback?

Write and let me know, I'd love to hear your ideas.

On another note: What do I mean by achieving real canter? For many a day now, I've been working hard on getting a really collected canter so I can start working on half pass with B. It's been hard work. Today, though, it seems to have paid off. I had a lesson in the afternoon, and we worked on canter leg yield off the rail, and then half pass, and I could really feel B sitting underneath himself and pushing. What fun! This is what dressage is all about.