What the Rider Reveal includes
Everything you need to understand your body and change it.
This is not a lesson. It is not a check-up. It is a complete, expert picture of your movement, and a clear, practical path forward.
Every element is designed to work together: to move you from insight to action to lasting change.
1. PREPARATION AND FORWARD VISION
Before your session, you'll complete a short online form covering your riding history, any injuries or medical background, and your goals — both now and long term. This gives us a complete picture before we meet, and means your 90 minutes are spent on what matters most to you.
Bonus: Register for the Rider's Inside Out webinar — Thursday 30 April, 7.30pm. Learn the foundations of riding anatomy and movement in the saddle, the things riders are almost never taught.
2. 90-MINUTE TESTING SESSION with SeatIQ
An expert, unhurried look at your movement, your riding patterns, and what your body is actually doing in the saddle. Conducted in person, with observation both on and off the spring-powered simulator. Everything is explained as we go — so you leave understanding not just what we found, but why it matters.
You'll leave with a clear picture of:
- Your balance and co-ordination — the foundation of safety and security in the saddle
- Your symmetry — and the specific cues to develop more even movement on both sides
- Your alignment — how your body segments stack, and where the effort is going that shouldn't be
- Your hip mobility and strength — and what that means for independent, effective leg aids
- Your deep core and body control — and how targeted work in and out of the saddle can change everything
Bring your own saddle so we can assess you in the position and fit you actually ride in.
3. YOUR WRITTEN REPORT
A clear, honest written picture of what we found in your strengths, your blocks, the movement patterns shaping your riding, and what they mean for your horse and your partnership. Yours to keep and share with your usual physio, trainer and coach.
4. YOUR MOVEMENT PLAN
A personalised exercise program built specifically around your body and your findings — not a generic plan, but a targeted set of movement practices designed to clear the specific blocks we found and build the capacity your riding needs.
5. YOUR FOLLOW-UP SESSION
A video call within 6 weeks after your Reveal to review your progress, answer questions, and adjust the movement program. Because insight without follow-through is just information — and information alone doesn't change anything.
YOUR GUIDE
LISSANTHEA TAYLOR
Better Rider Project
- 20+ years musculoskeletal physiotherapy
- Specialist in rider skilled performance training
- Chronic pain & neuroplasticity training
- Elite equestrian experience at NSW Institute of Sport
- Equitation science-informed practice
- Based in Victoria's Yarra Valley
I grew up obsessed with horses and learned to ride as a child, competing in showing and eventing before life took over and riding disappeared for twenty years. When I came back to it as an adult, I had a physiotherapist's understanding of the body and absolutely no skills in the saddle to speak of!
That gap — between knowing the body and knowing how to use it on a horse — became the thing I couldn't stop thinking about. I'd spent two decades working with athletes across different sports, and people with life-altering pain conditions, and I understood movement deeply. But riding brought me face to face with something none of my clinical training had explicitly addressed: the specific, invisible, physical demands of communicating with a horse through your body.
I rediscovered riding in Portugal in 2018, then continued in Shanghai on a Mongolian dressage pony named Mango who made it very clear that unclear aids would simply be ignored. He was the best teacher for re-building my skills. Back in Australia at Wandin Riding Academy in the Yarra Valley, I found exactly where my skills ended, and the real work is ongoing.
The Better Rider Project exists because the conversation between horse and rider deserves more than positional corrections and technique adjustments. It deserves honest, expert attention to the body doing the riding, its capacity, its blocks, its potential. I bring twenty years of movement assessment and training, a decade of specialist work in optimising nervous system performance, and my own ongoing journey in the saddle to every session.
My goal is simple: help you understand what your body is saying to your horse — and give you the tools to make that conversation clearer, freer, and worth listening to.
The conversation between you and your horse is already happening. Let's make it clear.
“I’m a professional rider and trainer, with a background in physical education and pilates, and there’s still many things that I learn about my body on the simulator that I cannot feel and really perfect anywhere else. For the 1% improvements needed at the top levels, simulator training is a game changer for riders who want to truly bring out the best in their horses”
- Michelle Baker, FEI Dressage Rider, Professional Trainer and Coach
