AlignmentHORSE with Liz VanRoss

Aligned-Balanced-Connected sponsors AlignmentHORSE-MASTER Series 2024-25 with the support of Golden Valley Riding Club. MASTER Series clinics will be run by Liz VanRoss in the UK.

AlignmentHORSE is a revolutionary science-based approach to equitation. Riders will be taken on a journey starting with the anatomy of their horse and how this organises movement and informs how best to teach our horses about locomotion in alignment. You will learn how to apply this knowledge for outstanding performance while safeguarding your horse’s wellbeing.

This knowledge is invaluable to owners, riders, handlers as well as equine therapists and equine professionals such as dentists, saddle-fitters, podiatrists, bitting specialists, nutritionists. Non-riders may attend as auditors for an opportunity to learn the theory and watch the action.

Liz VanRoss and AlignmentHORSE

Liz Van Ross logo, Liz will run the AlignmentHORSE clinic

Liz VanRoss developed the “AlignmentHORSE” approach and uses it both to develop and rehabilitate horses. She has helped hundreds of horses with her work. The AlignmentHORSE approach prevents occurrence and re-occurrence of debilitating equine conditions. Liz VanRoss works closely with horse owners and riders at all levels up to Grand Prix and 4* Eventing, to help them to work in better alignment and harmony, benefiting the horse’s mental, physical and emotional well-being.  

There is more information about Liz VanRoss and AlignmentHORSE in this summary.

AlignmentHORSE-MASTER Series 2024-25

The MASTER Series is a full year of regular training with Liz VanRoss. You may attend any or all of the dates. The more you attend the more you will understand how to work with the Laws of Locomotion and how to explain to your horse the way to achieve easy, pleasurable & outstanding movement.

You may attend as many of the in-person training days as you wish. In the Box Office you may book your places AND indicate which of the MASTER clinics you will attend (clinics will be held so long as attendees exceed the critical number). As an auditor, you may pick and choose individual days. Someone wishing to bring a horse must book an entire clinic … first making a formal application for a riding place (see Rider Application).

The focus of each clinic will be determined by the riders & horses present and their needs. Throughout the MASTER Series Liz VanRoss will cover all of the 12 Steps of AlignmentHORSE. There will be a mixture of practical work with horses and theoretical study throughout the clinics. The more of the theory and anatomical science that you cover with Liz VanRoss, the easier and faster it will be for you and your horse to succeed.

Please “keep these dates” in your diary! Book via the Box Office

Kick-Start Weekend Workshop: 22-24 November 2024 in Herefordshire

Friday night, Saturday and Sunday. Auditors only. No visiting horses.

  • Friday 5:30pm – 9:30pm: Open introductory presentation, dinner and networking with GVCR (including dinner catered by “Sisters”).
  • Saturday 9am – 5pm: AlignmentHORSE theory, Q&A and practical elements
  • Sunday 8am – 3pm: Application of AlignmentHORSE theory to in-hand & ridden work, exercises to practice at home

£98 per person for the full weekend including dinner Friday (lunch on Saturday and Sunday is an additional £12.50 per meal)

£35 per person for Friday only, including dinner

Clinic 1: 13 – 16 January 2025 at Unicorn Trust (Monday-Thursday 4 days)

Monday – Thursday (4 days). Auditors £57 per day (£228 for the whole clinic); Riders £628 for the clinic.

The focus of AlignmentHORSE work during these 4 days is determined by the needs of the horses & riders at the clinic. Liz VanRoss will outline the 12 Steps of AlignmentHORSE and will guide riders in teaching their horses the fundamentals of moving in alignment, both in-hand and ridden.

Demonstrations will be given of exercises to help teach horses to discover alignment and build their athletic musculature, developing top-line and powerful hind quarters. Throughout the 4 days of the clinic auditors will be able to watch horses transform their locomotion from reactive to cognitive placement of limbs with improved stability and balance.

Clinic 2: 17 – 18 February 2025 at Sparsholt College (Monday-Tuesday 2 days)

Clinic 3: 19- 21 February 2025 at Sparsholt College (Wednesday-Friday 3 days)

Clinic 4: 6-8 April 2025 at Sparsholt College (Sunday-Tuesday 3 days)

Demo Day/ Private Lessons: 9 April 2025 at Sparsholt College (Wednesday 1 day)

Clinic 5: 10-12 April 2025 at Sparsholt College (Thursday-Saturday 3 days)

Clinic 6: (17 or18)-19 April 2025 at Easton College (2 or 3 days)

Clinic 7: 12-14 June 2025 at Unicorn Trust (Thursday-Saturday 3 days)

Clinic 8: 15-17 June 2025 at Unicorn Trust (Sunday-Tuesday 3 days)

Clinic 9: 23-25 June 2025 at Hartbury College (Monday-Wednesday 3 days)

Clinic 10: 26-28 June 2025 at Hartbury College (Thursday-Saturday 3 days)

Clinic 11: 28-30 July 2025 at Sparsholt College (Monday-Wednesday 3 days)

Clinic 12: 31 July-2 August 2025 at Sparsholt College (Thursday-Saturday 3 days)

Clinic 13: 19-21 August 2025 at Easton College (Tuesday-Thursday 3 days)

Clinic 14: 22-24 August 2025 at Easton College (Friday-Sunday 3 days)

Clinic 15: Back to the Clubhouse in Herefordshire

Want to find out more?

Complete the form below if you are interested in courses or opportunities to work with Liz VanRoss.

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This clinic is hosted by Golden Valley Riding Club and sponsored by Aligned-Balanced-Connected.

Golden Valley Riding Club logo, sponsors of the AlignmentHorse clinic

Golden Valley Riding Club

Aligned Balanced Connected logo, sponsors of the AlignmentHorse clinic

Aligned Balanced Connected

Online Courses

Liz VanRoss is running regular Online Courses to help you develop AlignmentHORSE work with your horses. The courses are administered by Cathy Koetsier at Heart-To-Hand-Equine.

Feedback from Liz VanRoss’s courses:

Liz’s approach is like finding the missing piece of a jigsaw puzzle or the A of the ABC of something. Finally after all these years of having the lessons, going to the demos, the trainings, the clinics, reading the books, and seeing the greats, I can at last see a path to engage the horse’s ability to join with his human counterpart in finding, seeking and keeping alignment. Because without alignment there is no balance and without balance there never can be a functional equine partner for us to dance with.

Naomi Underwood BHS NPC Coach

For a quarter of a century I have searched around the globe for the “Elusive Obvious” or the “Missing Link” in developing, training and riding my horses. At last Liz has provided the missing parts of the puzzle. No holding us back now!! Thank you Liz and AlignmentHORSE.

Katherine Harberd

I am loving this approach and I truly see how it can benefit all horses! It’s like we have been let in on a huge secret thanks to Liz’s generosity…

Jane Horsman

Read more about it?

We have developed a number of leaflets which explain some aspects of the AlignmentHORSE approach.