A BHS Accredited Riding Coach and experienced equestrienne, Natasha Olivant provides private horse riding lessons near Chichester across West Sussex, Hampshire, and Surrey, alongside specialist riding simulator training at Aylings Garden Centre, Petersfield.
With over 25 years of experience, Natasha is known for her calm, biomechanics-focused approach rooted in Classical Dressage, rider performance, and equine behaviour. Lessons are tailored for adults and teenagers and include private riding lessons on your own horse, Schoolmaster lessons, and Racewood Dressage Simulator sessions.
Classical Riding Academy offers a supportive, evidence-based approach to horse riding instruction designed to improve rider confidence, posture, balance, and communication. Every session focuses on creating softer, clearer partnerships between horse and rider through understanding rather than force.
HORSE RIDING LESSONS IN WEST SUSSEX & HAMPSHIRE
NATASHA OLIVANT
CLASSICAL RIDING ACADEMY
CLASSICAL RIDING LESSONS & RIDER TRAINING IN WEST SUSSEX
Classical Riding Academy combines traditional classical horsemanship with modern rider biomechanics and equine behaviour coaching to create calm, effective horse riding lessons for riders of all levels.
Lessons are designed to improve rider balance, posture, coordination, confidence, and communication while supporting the horse’s comfort, movement, and understanding. Natasha’s teaching approach focuses on practical progress, ethical training methods, and helping riders develop a more balanced, harmonious partnership with their horse.
Based in West Sussex and working across Hampshire and Surrey, Classical Riding Academy provides private riding lessons, Schoolmaster tuition, and riding simulator training tailored to each rider’s goals and experience level.
RACEWOOD HORSE RIDING SIMULATOR LESSONS
READY TO RIDE
Whether you are a beginner rider, returning to the saddle, or riding at an advanced level, Racewood horse riding simulator lessons provide a precise way to improve rider balance, posture, coordination, and confidence.
The mechanical horse simulator helps identify asymmetry, tension, rein contact issues, and rider biomechanics in a controlled environment without the unpredictability of a live horse. Sessions are designed to improve rider awareness, core stability, and communication so progress transfers more effectively into everyday riding.
Specialist simulator sessions are also available for nervous riders, rider confidence building, rehabilitation support, and dressage rider training.
Simulator lessons take place at Aylings Garden Centre, Trotton, near Petersfield, Hampshire.
RIDING LESSON TESTIMONIALS
