FREELANCE HORSE RIDING LESSONS AT YOUR YARD IN WEST SUSSEX, SURREY & HAMPSHIRE
45-minute session with 15-minute post-analysis | £50
Our private riding lessons at your yard are designed for adults and teenagers across West Sussex, Surrey, and Hampshire who want practical progress on their own horse in familiar surroundings. Sessions take place at your yard, livery, or another safe location so your horse stays relaxed and you can address real issues in the environment where you normally ride and train. Lessons focus on building confidence, improving posture and balance, and developing clearer, kinder communication between horse and rider.
These are one-to-one sessions focusing on the whole partnership. You may be preparing for competition, returning to riding after a break, refining your position and balance, improving contact and straightness, or resolving behaviour or training challenges at home. Natasha teaches with a calm, clear approach that supports both horse and rider, emphasising why issues arise and how to change them.
Lessons run Monday to Saturday. Natasha is a fully insured, BHS‑accredited coach and holds a Chichester District Council licence. She travels throughout West Sussex, Surrey, and Hampshire, including towns such as Chichester, Petersfield, and Guildford. Travel within a ten‑mile radius of Charlton, West Sussex, is included; a travel fee applies beyond this. A weight limit applies for the comfort and welfare of the horses.
Semi-private and small-group lessons are available for like-minded riders and horses of similar ability, subject to suitability and safe facilities.
Lessons are available Monday to Saturday. Natasha is fully insured and travels across West Sussex, Surrey, and Hampshire. Travel within a 10-mile radius of Charlton, West Sussex, is included. A travel fee applies beyond this.
PRIVATE LESSONS ON YOUR OWN HORSE
(FREELANCE COACHING)
Private riding lessons delivered at your yard allow you to train without the disruption of travel and help Natasha understand your horse’s routine and environment. Most sessions are private, giving time for explanation, repetition, and feedback. Group lessons can work well for like-minded riders when horses and abilities match.
Working at home can be the fastest way to improve because you address real challenges in the setting where they occur. Sessions build confidence, consistency, clearer aids, and a calmer rhythm so you and your horse progress without feeling rushed.
COACHING THAT FITS YOUR GOALS IN YOUR YARD
Coaching is built around your goals and your horse’s needs rather than a fixed template. Working in your usual environment makes it easier to create lasting change and to practice confidently between sessions.
Lessons can focus on competition preparation, position and balance, improving contact and straightness, rhythm and transitions, lateral work, or support for young horses and rehabilitation.
You receive calm, clear feedback and practical exercises so you leave with clear priorities and a plan to use in your everyday riding.
WHAT WE CAN WORK ON IN YOUR FREELANCE LESSONS
Freelance lessons target the biggest sticking points in your training: position and balance, confidence, consistency in contact, straightness, transitions, or clearer aids. If your horse’s behaviour changes at home, this format is ideal because Natasha can see the patterns and address them in context.
Riders often book sessions to improve basics, build confidence in open spaces, refine lateral work, improve canter quality, or prepare for competitions. For young horses, returning riders, or those rebuilding after a setback, lessons are paced to suit the partnership.
Where appropriate, sessions may include in‑hand work or a blend of mounted and unmounted training to help you understand how your timing and balance affect the horse.
CONFIDENCE BUILDING RIDING LESSONS
Some riders choose freelance coaching to feel calmer, more secure, and more consistent on their own horse. Confidence is a skill that grows through clarity, repetition, and a pace that suits both horse and rider.
Lessons focus on practical foundations that make riding safer and more predictable: steadier rhythm, clearer transitions, dependable brakes and steering, and an independent, balanced seat.
If you’re nervous in canter, tense in open spaces, or unsure in new situations, sessions are structured to reduce pressure while still creating meaningful progress. Because lessons happen at your yard, you practice in the environment where confidence matters most and leave with simple exercises and clear priorities to build trust between sessions.
RIDER BIOMECHANICS & EQUINE BEHAVIOUR COACHING
Natasha’s freelance lessons are informed by rider biomechanics and equine behaviour, helping you understand how small changes in posture, timing, and clarity can affect the horse’s balance and mindset. The aim is not to override the horse but to make the aids easier to understand and easier to respond to.
Sessions may include practical work on rider symmetry, stability through the core, independent hands, and clearer use of leg and seat. When the rider becomes more consistent, the horse often becomes straighter, softer, and more settled, because the signals are simpler and the body can move more freely.
Behaviour and training challenges are approached thoughtfully, with attention to what the horse is communicating and what the environment is contributing. This is especially effective at home, where patterns can be seen clearly and improvements can be applied immediately.
IMPROVE HOW YOUR HORSE MOVES AT HOME
Many training challenges show up most clearly at home, where routines, spaces, and habits are most established. By working in your usual environment, Natasha can help you improve the way your horse moves and responds in the situations you deal with every week.
Lessons support straighter movement, improved balance, clearer rhythm, and more consistent connection, built from practical basics that suit your horse. Working in your usual environment helps Natasha see patterns and address them in context, so lessons support straighter movement, improved balance, clearer rhythm, and more consistent connection.
As rider awareness improves, the horse’s way of going often improves too. When your position, timing, and clarity become more consistent, your horse can relax, understand the aids, and move with greater ease.
AREAS COVERED AND TRAVEL FEES IN WEST SUSSEX, SURREY & HAMPSHIRE
Natasha provides freelance riding lessons across West Sussex, Surrey and Hampshire, including areas such as Chichester, Haslemere, Liss, Petersfield and Guildford. If you are unsure whether your location is covered, email your postcode and Natasha will confirm availability.
Travel within a 10 mile radius of Charlton, West Sussex is included. A travel fee applies beyond this radius and is confirmed when booking.
Lessons can be delivered at livery yards, private facilities, arenas, and safe fields or grass paddocks, provided footing and space are suitable for calm, secure work.
BHS ACCREDITED
HORSE RIDING COACH
NATASHA OLIVANT
Natasha Olivant is a highly experienced equestrienne and BHS Accredited Coach with over 20 years of teaching experience. She specialises in private, one-on-one riding lessons on your own horse, delivered at your yard or livery, with calm, practical coaching that supports both confidence and performance.
Her sessions draw on Classical Dressage, rider biomechanics, and equine behaviour, helping riders improve position, clarity of aids, straightness, rhythm, and connection in a way that makes sense in real life at home. Whether you are preparing for competition, rebuilding confidence, or working through a training or behaviour issue, Natasha focuses on what will make the biggest difference for you and your horse.
The aim is always the same: clearer understanding, kinder communication, and a more willing horse with a more confident, capable rider. Each lesson is structured, supportive, and tailored, with simple priorities you can continue practising between sessions.
RIDING LESSON TESTIMONIALS
Riders value our mobile tuition because it provides dedicated one‑to‑one attention with a fully accredited coach and an approach rooted in research. Working in your own yard keeps horse and rider relaxed and lets Natasha customise each lesson. The training focuses on boosting confidence, refining seat and balance, and achieving clearer communication so the horse moves more freely.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
SERVICE AREA
Mobile across West Sussex, Surrey & Hampshire
Natasha provides private riding lessons at your yard or location, travelling regularly to areas including Chichester, Petworth, Petersfield, Haslemere, Liss, Guildford and the wider South Downs.
Based in Charlton, West Sussex, she covers locations within a 10-mile radius free of charge. Travel fees apply beyond this boundary.
BOOKING POLICY
Our booking process is bespoke and arranged via email. Lessons are available Monday to Saturday and scheduled around your needs wherever possible.
All new clients must fill out a rider registration form. Your introduction lesson includes an initial assessment to help shape a personalised programme for you and your horse.
Hats are not provided.
CANCELLATION POLICY
If you cancel within 48 hours or fail to turn up for any reason, your payment will not be refunded.
Lessons and other sessions cancelled with more than 48 hours' notice will be rescheduled to a date within six months of the original appointment.
Riding is an all-weather pursuit and goes ahead even in inclement conditions.
