Advice greatly appreciated. I'm realising that my seat and heaviness through hands are blocking my pony. It's not as bad as it sounds but she's a very sensitive type. We are working nicely at intro but to go up the levels, I need to be much more refined in how I ride her to help her loosen up and help her way of going.
I know the best thing to do is to have lunge lessons without reins. However I don't have the money / time to ride anything other than my own pony and she really isn't the right candidate for doing this on the lunge- she's very spooky. My trainer is happy to give me lunge lessons but agrees it wouldn't work with my pony.
Does anybody have any other good exercises for improving this?