Stephanie McDearmid BHS Coach

29/09/2026

📣 Lesson availability this Sunday (4th October)
🫟Flatwork, polework, jumping
✅️ I come to you
☎️ message to book 😊

27/09/2026

Another great time at Spring House Farm today doing EQBands taster sessions at Lesley Wheatley's Camp.
Well done everyone 👏 😃
Looking forward to the October camp
☎️ Contact Lesley for details

25/09/2026

A visit to Spring House Farm for an EQ BANDS session with Liz and her lovely spotty mare Millie 🥰
A short warm up and disucssion before I fitted the EQ Bands on Liz to help improve her balance, lower leg position & stability.
🔹️Firstly, standing up in the stirrups in walk and then trot. It's a real test of balance to be able to stay in the 'stand up' position, especially wearing the resistance bands.
🔸️Next, stiil wearing the EQ Bands, Liz worked on that good balanced position with the stable lower leg to see how that influenced Millie's way of going. The more effective Liz's riding became the better Millie became.
🔻Finally, I removed the bands so Liz could try to maintain the good posture and position and self-correct when necessary 👍

This is Liz's second EQ Bands session and she said
" The bands really make me think about what my body is doing when I ride. How I sit, the position of my legs and my upper body posture. The EQ bands have enabled me to feel what is correct so I can apply that when I'm not wearing them. When I'm sitting correctly Millie improves too."
Fab lesson, well Liz 👏

23/09/2026

3 weeks ago I took the BHS Stage 4 Care Assessment.
My provisional results have just been emailed to me and I've PASSED 😃
Over the moon.
I have blanked out the examiner's comments cos they're nobody else's business 😜🤭
Just need to wait for Snail Mail to deliver the certificate! 🙄

23/09/2026

🔷️ EQ BANDS SESSIONS 🔷️
🏇 Would you like to improve your effectiveness as a rider?
🐴 Would you like to mprove your horse's way of going? Rhythm, Suppleness, Contact, Impulsion, Straightness, Collection.
🤸Do you seem to lose your balance but don't know why?
🤔 Does your coach constantly mention the same positional fault(s) but you can't seem to maintain the corrections?
🔹️EQ Bands sessions can help🔹️
They are extensively used by professional riders of all disciplines to improve their performance.
Why? Because every other sport has been using fitness, psychology and marginal gains for years.
👌The equestrian world is beginning to catch up!
As the only EQ BANDS Accredited Coach in the North East, I offer regular or one off sessions as well as yard clinics.
❓️Want to know more❓️
🤓Have a spy at the collage below and pop me a message 👍
Improve the rider, improve the horse 😉

20/09/2026

🎖Rider and horse of the week 🐴
⭐️ Lily and her TB mare, River ⭐️

🔸️Lily hasn't owned River for long and is doing a great job of learning how to ride her.
🔹️River can be a bit 'fizzy' and Lily has been working on using her breathing, legs, seat and posture to help slow her down.
🔺️ We have been practising riding without stirrups to help balance, lengthen legs and deepen seat.
▪️Lily has also been improving River's canter transitions using techniques we've practised in lessons.
😃 Brilliant work Lily! Keep it up 🥰

19/09/2026

🐴 CONTACT 🐴 ❓️What does it mean ❓️🤔

3️⃣ The third part of the Training Scale 3️⃣

🟢 A soft, consistent, elastic communication between the rider's hands and the horse's mouth.
🟠 The energy is gently generated by the rider's seat and legs which encourages the horse to use or 'engage' his hind legs with a relaxed swinging back to correctly step under his body and so lighten his forehand.
🔵 He lifts through his core muscles, rounds his back and works forward into the bridle and 'onto the bit'.
✅️ The horse should be in self-carriage, feeling light in the rider's hands and not leaning on the bit.
🔴 The poll should always be the highest point and the nose slightly infront of the vertical.
🟣 The paces should feel light and springy!
👌🐴 When the horse is working correctly in all of these aspects, he is said to be 'connected'.

If you'd like help to improve your horse's rhythm, suppleness and contact then pop me a message 😊

16/09/2026

✅️ My coaching journey continues as I begin the Centre10 Applied Psychology for Equestrian Coaches course 👍
I constantly aim to improve in whatever I do and that includes coaching.
The psychology of learning and performance has always interested me, so this seemed like a very appriopriate course for me to complete.
👢It has kicked off, as you'd expect, with Module 1
and some tasks to consider and complete over the next couple of weeks 🤔 ✍️
‼️Client warning‼️ you may be an unsuspecting guinea pig ‼️😜🤣

14/09/2026

Due to a cancellation I have 1 space available for the 27th September

Message me for more information

14/09/2026