★The online home for dressage riders: the most supportive, encouraging community anywhere, with world-class education for every level.
Never ride alone. Never wonder what to work on.
A warm, supportive community of riders, one clear focus every week, and now Natasha’s complete Dressage Mastery recipe book, from Fundamentals to Grand Prix. All for $29 a month.
- People who are genuinely pleased for you. Post the ride that finally worked, and the one that absolutely did not. Nobody in here is made to feel small.
- One focus every week, and everyone doing it with you. A riding and a non-riding version, so a lame horse or a wet month never stops your progress.
- Dressage Mastery, the complete recipe book. Every movement at every level, explained so it finally makes sense, plus a live Q&A with Natasha every month and Ask Tash AI at any hour.
$29 USD a month. Instant access, cancel anytime.
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Now includedDressage Mastery, Fundamentals to Grand PrixRiders Lounge members. Most of them had never met before they joined.
8,000+Riders taught
2009Coaching since
Grand PrixOn a Friesian stallion
150K+YouTube subscribers
8 modulesFundamentals to Grand Prix
We asked dressage riders
Where is your riding really at? Here is what riders told us.
In September we asked the dressage riders in our community to be honest about their riding. These are the answers from everyone who is riding at the moment.
They are not lazy, and they are not short of talent. They are riding, paying for lessons and trying hard. What they are missing is a clear recipe to follow, and somebody beside them for all the rides in between. Whether you have a lesson every week, once a month or not at all, most of your riding happens on your own.
Your Riding Success rider check-in, September 2026. 26 riders who are currently riding.
You know this bit
None of this is a talent problem.
The lesson that evaporates.
With your coach standing there, it comes together. Then they drive off, and by Thursday you cannot remember whether it was the inside rein or the outside leg.
The rides nobody sees.
It will not come together and there is nobody to ask. You school the same thing five times and still cannot tell whether it was right. You get off not knowing if that was a good ride or a wasted one.
The sheet that says the same thing.
"Not through enough." "Behind the bit." "Contact needs to improve." You could write the comments yourself by now, and you still do not know what to do differently on Monday.
There is nothing wrong with you or your horse. You were handed three thousand tips, never one recipe, and nobody to ride it with.
The Riders Lounge+
Dressage Mastery shows you what to do. The Riders Lounge makes sure you keep doing it.
One tells you exactly what to do at every level. The other gives you a focus every week, answers when you are stuck, and people who notice when it works. Each one helps on its own. Together, they are what most riders have never had.
Dressage Mastery
The complete recipe book. Eight levels of step-by-step recipes, Training in Real Time, the manuals, troubleshooting guides and 100+ training plan audios.
The Riders Lounge
One focus every week with everyone doing it together, a live Q&A with Natasha every month, Ask Tash AI, 200+ lessons in the vault, and a community that gets it.
The Riders Lounge+
$29 a month
Everything above. Cancel anytime.
What it actually looks like
One ordinary week in the Riders Lounge+.
Nothing about your week changes, except that you know what you are doing, and somebody is with you while you do it.
Monday
The week’s challenge drops with a new audio from Tash. You open the module for your level and find the recipe that goes with it.
Tuesday
Lesson, if you have one. Same lesson, but now you know which piece your coach is fixing. No lesson this week? You have the recipe anyway.
Wednesday
Your horse leans. You know it is a connection problem, and you know the three steps. At 7pm you ask Tash AI the thing you are still not sure about.
Saturday
No energy for thinking. You plug in a training plan audio and let Tash talk you through the whole session.
Sunday
You post how the week went. Two replies before you have untacked, one from a rider a level ahead who had the same problem last year.
And once this month
The live Q&A. You bring the question the week threw up, Natasha works it through, and you go into next month knowing what you are fixing.
The private members community
This is not one of those groups you are scared to post in.
You do not need the perfect horse, the perfect position or a 70% test.
Post the video where it finally worked. Post the one where it absolutely did not. Ask the question you think everyone else already knows. Tell us you entered your first competition, or that you withdrew. Tell us your horse is lame and you are gutted.
There are riders in here who understand exactly why all of it matters.
And this is what members write, in their own words.
I am unstoppable because no matter what others do or say, I am NOT invisible and I WILL reach my goals in this, my next chapter, in life! Watch out! IM COMIN'!
I am grateful because this group of Riders from the riders lounge and the fearless mastery program have supported me in my journey thru anxiety, nervousness, and fear. I'm continuing my journey, but you all have helped me along the way ❣️
I still keep turning up! Still have my dreams, my goals & my support!
I am unstoppable because I am tenacious and tough, and I have a dream of doing beautiful things with my horses. ❤️❤️
I am grateful this week for getting to ride & the fun I had doing it & seeing my daughter enjoy riding again 😊
Because now this is my time to shine 🌟💫
Natasha is in there herself. Most of those replies are hers.
Say hello tonight, or quietly read for a while. Both are fine.
The part members love most
Every week should make you a better rider. Even the weeks you cannot ride.
52improvements a year, one week at a time
Every Monday the whole Lounge gets one focus for the week. Not a menu, not a playlist. One thing to go and work on, with a short audio or video from Tash explaining exactly how, and everybody in the Lounge working on the same thing at the same time.
One of this year’s weekly challenges, posted in the members community.
Option one
The riding challenge
Something to take into the arena this week. It scales to you, so a rider at prelim and a rider at Grand Prix can do the same challenge and both get something out of it.
Option two
The non-riding challenge
For the weeks you cannot ride. Your horse is lame, you are injured, your horse is away, or it has rained for a fortnight. You still move forward, because the work that week is groundwork, your body or your head.
This is the bit members keep talking about. Having one thing to focus on changes the whole week. You are not standing at the mounting block deciding what to work on, because you already know. And because everyone is on the same challenge, the community fills up with riders trying it, posting how it went and cheering each other on. It is also why members actually use it, instead of paying for something they never open.
What is Dressage Mastery?
World-class dressage education, simplified.
Dressage Mastery is Natasha Althoff’s step-by-step recipe book for dressage: the exact sequence for every movement, from your very first test to Grand Prix.
If you are not progressing, or you do not understand what your coach is asking, that is not on you. It is the coach’s job to find a way of explaining it that works for you. So Natasha teaches it four ways, and you use whichever one makes it click.
Natasha rides it
Movements demonstrated on her own horses, so you can see what right actually looks like.
Training in Real Time
Full coaching sessions with real riders at every level, so you see what it looks like when it goes right, and when it does not.
100+ training plan audios
Put Tash in your ear and she talks you through the whole session while you ride it.
Manuals, recipes and troubleshooting
Every step written down in order, plus what to do when it falls apart halfway through the leg yield.
"Dressage Mastery has been $497. I'm tired of people's finances getting in the way of their education. So now it lives inside the Riders Lounge, for $29 a month."
Natasha Althoff
What is not in it, so you know exactly what you are getting. The personalised six-week plan and the video reviews, where Natasha watches you ride and writes your plan, need her time one rider at a time. Those stay in the premium program. Everything else that teaches you the recipes is in here.
The difference a recipe makes
"Ride from back to front" is not an instruction. It is a description.
Here is the most common problem in early-level dressage, getting your horse connected and on the bit. First the way you have always been told it, then the way Natasha teaches it.
- "Ride from back to front."
- "More impulsion. Get in front of the leg."
- "Soften. Do not pull. Give with the inside rein."
- "There! Feel that? Keep that."
Every word of it is correct. Not one word of it tells you what to do on Thursday, when your horse is leaning and you are on your own.
- Create the energy. Your horse's legs have to be actively moving. Not fast. Active.
- Catch the energy. Pick up a contact, so the energy has somewhere to arrive.
- Check the contact is even. Fifty per cent in the left rein, fifty in the right. If it is not even, move your horse's body and neck until it is.
Do those three things and your horse is connected. No grey area, and no hoping you felt the right thing.
There is a recipe like that for leg yield. For shoulder-in, a square halt, the extended walk, the flying change and the collected canter. Every movement at every level, all the way to Grand Prix, and every one of them is in the Riders Lounge+.
The Rider Intuition Wheel, taught in full inside the recipe book
Eight pieces, not three thousand
The whole of dressage, on one page.
Four things your horse is doing, four things you are doing. Natasha rides Grand Prix off this wheel and nothing else, because everything else is already a recipe.
- Is your horse straight and soft? Yes or no.
- Do you have connection? Yes or no.
- If yes and yes, add power.
- Did the power cost you the softness, straightness or connection? Go back and catch it.
- If not, take the energy up instead of forwards. That is collection.
Feel, react. That is a piaffe, and it is also a twenty-metre circle at prelim.
The recipe book
Eight modules. One for every level, from your first test to Grand Prix.
You do not wade through all of it. Start at the level you actually ride, and the next one is waiting when you are ready.
Module 1Dressage Fundamentals
The dressage scale, the art of the contact and essential groundwork. Where most "advanced" problems actually live.
Module 2Training Level / Preliminary
Developing the forward, acceptance of the bit and smooth transitions.
Module 3First Level / Novice
More engagement, better balance, and riding the tests so the marks reflect the work.
Module 4Second Level / Elementary
Lateral work, refining the aids, and holding the connection when the questions get harder.
Module 5Third Level / Medium
Medium and collected paces, travers, renvers and half pass.
Module 6Fourth Level / Advanced
Real collection, the half halt, flying changes and counter canter that holds together.
Module 7PSG & Inter I
Pirouettes and tempi changes, including how Natasha counted hers when she could not feel them.
Module 8Inter II & Grand Prix
Piaffe, passage, ones. Yes, it is in there. No, you do not have to look at it yet.
All eight levels open from tonight.
Why members stay
Dressage Mastery is the roadmap. The Lounge is the journey.
The recipe book might be why you join. These six things are why members stay, month after month.
One · every week
Your weekly challenge, plus the audio that teaches it
One job for the week, with a short audio or video from Tash showing you exactly how. Riding and non-riding versions, every week.
- Short enough to use. Listen on the drive out, then ride it while it is still in your head.
- It follows the month’s focus, so the weeks build instead of being random tips.
Two · every month
A live Q&A with Natasha
Once a month you get her live, inside the Lounge. Bring the question the recipes threw up, and she works it through.
- Bring your actual problem, the one that has been bothering you for weeks.
- Recorded, so a bad time zone or a busy month does not cost you it.
My horse keeps falling in on the left rein. Which recipe is that?
Tash AI is answering
I have my first test in 3 weeks and I am already dreading it.
Three · 24/7
Ask Tash AI
Grand Prix riding knowledge and NLP-trained mindset coaching at your fingertips, at any hour.
- For the 7pm on a Tuesday questions, the ones that used to get answered by a guess.
- Answers in Tash’s method, so it lines up with the recipes instead of contradicting them.
Four · any time
The Video Vault
Over 200 lessons across twelve categories, from contact and test prep to fear, fitness and young horses.
- Search it like a question. Straightness, the canter aid, nerves at the marshalling area.
- Every live Q&A gets added, so it keeps growing.
Five · all day, every day
The private community
Riders all over the world, doing it alongside you and sharing how it is actually going. Post at midnight and somebody is awake.
- Somewhere to put the wins. The first clean change, the first ribbon, the first leg yield that actually went sideways.
- No judgment. Nobody is ever made to feel small in here.
Six · every month
Prizes, awards and celebrations
Something to aim at that does not cost an entry fee, and something to win at the end of it.
- Prizes and awards every month, plus giveaways through the year including horse holidays, boots, helmets and gear.
- Celebrations in the community, so the wins get marked by people who know what they cost.
Riders using the recipes
What happens when every ride has a point to it.
"Within ten minutes, I had solid, supple and even connection."
"I have been struggling with contact for over 10 years with my horse. I watched and read your teachings on connection and within 10 minutes, I had a solid supple and even connection at all three gaits."
Kristi Horbach, ten years stuck on contact
"We won! A personal best of over 65%."
"Light-bulb moment from watching DMA part six, collection and half halt. Thanks for a fabulous program."
Ashley, Dressage Mastery member
"We scored a 68, and I couldn’t be prouder."
"What a great day with my incredible Knight. Testing at training level three, we scored a 68, and I couldn’t be prouder."
Wendy, Dressage Mastery member
"My first try at second level."
"A few bobbles and a break, but thanks DMA, I’m finding the program extremely helpful." She took first place.
Heather, Dressage Mastery member
"The tools to learn even when I don’t have a trainer."
"Dressage Mastery has given me the tools to learn even when I don’t have a trainer."
Laurie, Dressage Mastery member
"I’ve only done 3 lessons so far and they are fantastic."
"This program has allowed me to find the missing link for me, focus and not procrastinating. Really looking forward to progressing and having fun too."
Julie, England
"What I learned from her is solely responsible for getting my joy of riding back."
"Tash is so insightful, knowledgeable, and most of all, compassionate. She speaks from her own experience. She relates to you as a friend."
Julia Karides, Riders Lounge member
"You are great at breaking things down in a way that really hits what we go through. Then you help us set the scene for how we want things to be."
Gabriela Marshall
Who wrote the recipes
Natasha Althoff
I am probably a less talented rider than you are, and that is exactly what makes me a good coach. I could not feel the right diagonal. I could not get my horse on the bit. I watched my friends move up to the advanced group while I stayed behind, and I cried in my horse float more times than I will admit.
So I reverse-engineered every step, and I wrote it down. I cannot cook to save myself, but give me a recipe that tells me how to crack the egg and I will make you a perfectly good chocolate cake. Dressage turned out to be the same.
It took me twenty years and more money than I want to write down. You should not have to do any of that. That is the whole point of this.
- Grand Prix dressage rider and coach. The first in Australasia to take a Friesian stallion to Grand Prix, on three rides a week.
- A Friesian cross Thoroughbred to Inter II before that.
- NLP Master Practitioner, which is why the mindset half of the wheel is not an add on.
- 8,000+ riders taught since 2009, and 150,000+ YouTube subscribers.
What coaching costs
Where should I spend my money?
A private lesson runs somewhere between $80 and $190, and it buys you an hour on one of your seven days. Here is the same money three ways.
One private lesson
$80 to $190
Covers one ride. Then you are on your own until the next one.
A year of weekly lessons
$4,160+
At the lowest end of that range, 52 weeks a year.
The Riders Lounge+
$29 a month
Only $0.95 a day
The community, a focus every week and the complete recipe book. Cancel anytime.
It is not here to replace your coach. It is what happens in between. And if you do not have a coach at the moment, it means you are no longer doing it alone.
Come in
We saved you a seat.
Everything below, from tonight, for $29 a month. No trial to remember to cancel and no twelve-month contract. Stay for as long as it is helping.
$29 USD a month
It stays $29 for as long as you are a member. Cancel anytime.
The Riders Lounge
- The private members community. Post the good rides and the bad ones, and get people who are genuinely pleased for you. Somewhere to put the win that nobody at work would understand.
- One focus every week, 52 a year, with the whole Lounge working on it together and a riding and a non-riding version. You reach December knowing how far you have come.
- A live Q&A with Natasha every month, recorded if you cannot make it. The thing that has nagged you for weeks finally gets a proper answer.
- Ask Tash AI at any hour. You never have to ride on a guess again.
- The Video Vault, over 200 lessons across twelve categories, plus prizes and awards every month.
The Dressage Mastery recipe book
- Eight level modules, Fundamentals to Grand Prix. You know what you are working on before you tack up, at the level you actually ride.
- Training in Real Time. You see what it looks like when it goes right, and when it does not, on riders at your level.
- Learning manuals, recipe books and troubleshooting guides. When it falls apart halfway through the leg yield, the fix is already written down.
- 100+ training plan audios. On the days you cannot face thinking, Tash does the thinking for you.
- $29 stays $29. Your price does not go up for as long as you are a member, and you can cancel anytime. You stay because it is working, not because leaving is awkward.
Secure checkout. $29 USD today, then $29 a month. You can be inside tonight.
No surprises
What happens when you join.
Tonight
You are in
Your login lands in your inbox. Say hello in the community, or quietly read for a while, and open the module for the level you actually ride.
Monday
Your first challenge
The week’s challenge and audio land. Ride it alongside your module, then post how it went.
This month
The live Q&A
Bring the question your first few weeks threw up. Natasha works it through live, and it is recorded if you cannot be there.
Every month after
$29, same as today
Your price stays at $29 for as long as you are a member. If you ever want to leave, one email to the team and it is done.
Honest bit
This is not right for everyone.
Join if
- You have been at the same level long enough that it has stopped feeling like a phase.
- You want an actual recipe for what to do in the saddle, not more tips.
- You do most of your riding with nobody watching.
- You would love horsey friends who are genuinely pleased for you.
- Life is busy, and you need something that fits around it rather than one more deadline.
- You compete, or you never will. Both are completely fine.
- You cannot ride at the moment and you do not want to lose the months.
Give it a miss if
- You want Natasha to watch you ride and write your personal plan. That is the premium program, and it costs more because it takes her time.
- You want somebody physically in your arena. Nothing online replaces that, and Tash would tell you the same.
- You are after a magic pill. Natasha looked for years, and there is not one.
- You would rather keep looking for the answer in a new horse, a new bit or a new coach.
Questions
Before you join.
What exactly is the Riders Lounge+?
It is the Riders Lounge, our private community of riders, with Natasha's Dressage Mastery recipe book inside it. The community, the weekly focus and challenge, the monthly live Q&A, Ask Tash AI, the Video Vault, prizes and awards, plus the eight level modules, Training in Real Time, the manuals, recipe books and troubleshooting guides, and 100+ training plan audios.
What is the community actually like?
Kind and encouraging. It is a private members community, separate from your personal social media, where riders post their rides, their videos, their wins and their bad days, and get encouragement back. Natasha is in there herself.
You never have to post. Plenty of members read quietly for a month before they say hello.
Wasn't Dressage Mastery $497?
Yes. Natasha decided she was tired of people's finances getting in the way of their education, so the recipe book now lives inside the Riders Lounge.
Two things that take her personal time are not part of the Riders Lounge+: the six-week plan she writes after watching you ride, and video reviews of your riding. The live coaching is a Q&A once a month, recorded for the vault. Everything else that teaches you the recipes is here.
Will the price go up?
Not for you. For as long as your membership continues, you pay $29 USD a month, whatever happens to our prices later. If you cancel and come back another time, the price on offer then applies.
Is there a free trial or a money-back guarantee?
No. We have kept this one simple. It is $29 a month, you can cancel anytime, and you only ever pay for the month you are in.
How do I cancel?
Email the team and they will take care of it. There is no phone call, no retention pitch and no reason required. We would far rather you left easily and came back in a season when it suits you than stayed because leaving was awkward.
Life is busy. Will I actually use it?
That is exactly what the weekly focus is for. You are not facing a library and deciding where to start. There is one thing this week, a short audio that teaches it, and a version you can do even if you cannot ride. Most riders spend twenty minutes or so with a module before they ride, then ride it.
And if a busy fortnight goes by and you do not open it, nothing is lost. It is there when the week calms down.
Which level do I start at? What if I am not sure?
Start at the module for the level you actually ride. All eight are open from day one, but you will not need them all at once, which is rather the point. If you are not sure, start with Fundamentals. That is where most "advanced" problems live anyway.
I do not compete. Is it still worth it?
Yes. A dressage test is just a way of finding out how responsive your horse is under a bit of pressure, and you can ride one at home with nobody watching. Plenty of members never enter a competition and get everything they came for.
How often is the live coaching, and what if I am in the wrong time zone?
The live Q&A with Natasha is once a month, inside the Lounge. In between there is a new challenge and audio every week, the whole recipe book, the community and Tash AI, so you are never waiting a month for help.
Every Q&A is recorded and added to the vault, and you can post your question ahead of time to have it answered even if you cannot be there.
What is Ask Tash AI?
It is included in your membership and it is there at any hour. You ask it a riding, training or mindset question and it answers in Tash's method, so it lines up with the recipes rather than contradicting them.
It does not replace the live Q&A, and it is not pretending to be Tash. It is for the questions that turn up at 7pm on a Tuesday, which used to get answered by a guess.
I do not only ride dressage. Is this for me?
Yes. Dressage is simply the systematic training of a riding horse, so the recipes make every other discipline easier. And the Lounge itself is for every rider, whether you jump, event, ride endurance or just love going out on the trail.
Do I need my own horse?
No. Plenty of members lease, share, ride at a school, or are between horses at the moment. The recipes, the vault and the community all work either way.
You do not have to choose between better riding and having people beside you.
You have not been failing. You have been cooking without a recipe, and doing it on your own. The next four years can be different, starting tonight, with a room full of riders who will be genuinely pleased when it works.
$29 USD a month. Cancel anytime.
Results depend on the work you put in, your horse and your circumstances. Nothing here promises a particular score, placing or level by a particular date. All prices in USD.