Ride from Within Academy
Experience the difference with our online courses.
Online + Hybrid Courses
Learn the theory online at your own pace so you’re ready to join in at the next live workshop. Our advanced courses feature a hybrid model – complete with assessed homework, community, and live Q&A session.
“A New Paradigm in Riding” – An Introduction to Ride from Within
This 3-part course introduces the basic theory and principles of Ride from within and what makes it a new paradigm in riding.
“You Are the Solution” – Beginning to Ride From Within
This 4-week online course will teach you how to begin to apply the new paradigm in your own riding.
The Seat is Everything
The rider’s seat is widely accepted as “everything” in upper levels of virtually all disciplines in riding but rarely is the “how to” clearly defined or taught. In this 6-week course you will learn exactly what your seat is and how to use it.
Teaching Feel
“Feel” is widely accepted in the riding world as a mystical “gift” of the lucky few or is developed over years of riding many horses for many hours a day. In Ride from Within we know “feel’ can be taught and we teach it from the start. In this 6-week course you will learn what “feel” is and how to access and develop your innate ability.
The Magic Circle
Riding an accurate and perfect circle, turning a corner or achieving “bend” in your horse can be a hit or miss affair and in the modern mainstream riding world is always taught using the external aids of inside rein and outside leg, with “looking where you are going” to generally address the quality and shape of your turn or circle. In this 6-week course we take all the mystery out of riding a circle and you will learn to execute them perfectly and accurately, every time, with powerful internal aids that make it so effortless you will think you are using magic.
Testimonials
Hear it from riders who have experienced our training.
"THANK YOU SO MUCH. The lecture as always was phenomenal. I repeat myself but you never fail to amaze me James with your ability to explain the inexplicable. And the very specific homework...brilliant."
"What an amazing course this was. The deep focus and step by step exercises with each lecture (and video) really brought things together for me. I have suspected from the first time I met James that he was offering something really special. I was right!"
“Meeting James many years ago was a game changer for me but this course really offered in-depth understanding of James’ brilliant theory along with thoughtful presentation, enthusiasm and his incredible eye."
"Cannot say enough about what a wonderful experience this was. Truly life changing! Thank you for the opportunity, cannot wait for the next course!"
"The best course yet! Beyond lectures to in depth "how to" to do the work to get the results!
“The homework and “Homework for Life” have been and will continue to be extremely valuable to my own physical health as well as to help my students with a greater understanding of how their bodies can work, helping further establish a greater connection with their horses. And the love shared by James, Gillian and all of the participants was the icing on the cake! Heartfelt thanks to you all!"
Learn
Each of our courses – whether you’re a beginner or experienced – is designed and delivered by James himself and is a culmination of 25 years of experience teaching many thousands of riders at al levels and in all disciplines to effectively and efficiently help you learn the theory and art of riding from within.
Practice
Our annual six-week Foundation courses include not only live webinars with Q&A, but also homework tailored for you to practice what you’ve learned with on-going support and feedback from James.
Interact
With your Mastery membership, you’ll get access to hours of audio and video resources, a monthly teaching webinar as well as an invite to the exclusive Facebook community.
What is Ride from Within?
Simply put, the problem is separation.
The solution is Unity, true connection with your horse at a physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual level. Our completely new and paradigm-shifting way of seeing the horse/rider partnership comes from a deeper understanding of rider biomechanics that goes way beyond the widely accepted and popular understanding of how the body can, and is, designed to move. Using rotations to deal with the external forces of the horse and gravity rather than simple leverage, we achieve true balance in motion so that we are no longer a hindrance to the horse but moving as One with it.
Transform Your Riding
James' knowledge comes from the application of ancient, almost forgotten, principles that govern healthy, balanced movement within the natural laws your horse lives by.
Challenge Convention
Most of us do not understand what "being balanced" means or that in our daily lives and in riding we are actually constantly “keeping our balance”. They are literally two different worlds and which one you dwell in and move from is immediately recognizable to your horse, who is the Master of balanced movement. When you change your horse changes. Usually instantly, 100% of the time.
Connection on All Levels
James Shaw's methods, totally unique in the riding world teach you precisely how to connect deeply on a physical level with your horse, the gateway to complete connection on all levels of Being. how to get that pure physical connection with your horse - which leads to connection on all levels.