Hello, I'm Regina Staples, a horse-crazed child of non-horsey parents who finally wore them down until they agreed to take me for riding lessons.

I began my early riding career in the hunter/jumper divisions. Little did they know, this was just the beginning of a lifelong passion,and a journey that would eventually bring me to the work I am so fortunate to share with you today.

I was incredibly lucky to ride all sorts of horses as a child and young adult: young, old, naughty, complicated, recovering from injury, and some carrying difficult histories of their own. Every horse taught me something.

Then I got my dream job.

I became the main rider at a beautiful sale barn, riding and training young horses to jump and eventually head off to the hunter and jumper rings. I loved every one of them and had enormous compassion for the different horses I was fortunate enough to ride.

And then I fell off.

Not just a "dust yourself off and get back on" kind of fall.

I sustained a significant knee injury that would ultimately change the way I moved & potentially take riding away from me altogether. I was even encouraged to consider giving up riding and finding a new career.

I tried that for a year.

That was enough!

Instead, I turned my compass.

I began studying classical dressage, continued riding, became an instructor, and immersed myself in the study of body awareness and movement. What began as something I needed for myself became a passion in its own right. I became fascinated by rider & horse biomechanics and by the incredible relationship between the two.

I wanted to understand not just where a rider should be, but how the body actually moves to create balance, stability, mobility, and communication.

Because there is a huge difference between holding your body in a position because "that's what it is supposed to look like" and having the awareness and movement options to allow your body to organize itself in a way that actually works. That distinction was critical for me.

After my injury, I had to learn how to work with the body I actually had, not the body I wished I had.

And what I discovered was incredibly hopeful:

You don't have to have an injury to benefit from understanding how you move.

Every rider has habitual patterns. Every rider has areas of strength, restriction, compensation, and greater possibility.

And our horses feel them.