Founder & Director

Alicia is the founder of the Dressage Institute and an international dressage educator specialising in how riders learn and apply the German Training Scale.

Her work does not redefine dressage as a discipline. Instead, it addresses a long-standing gap in rider education: the absence of a clear, structured way to teach dressage progression as a system. Alicia was the first to design a university-style curriculum for dressage, where learning is organised through foundations, integration, and increasing responsibility, rather than informal exposure or imitation.

She is also the first to develop dressage-specific sports psychology and rider decision-making processes, focusing on how riders maintain clarity, prioritisation, and system organisation as difficulty increases. This work addresses not just what riders do, but how and when decisions are made, and why system stability determines whether progress holds.

Her teaching integrates biomechanics, training structure, and rider cognition, with particular emphasis on long-term horse development, soundness, and sustainability at higher levels of the sport. She works internationally with professional and amateur riders and is known for translating complex training principles into precise, repeatable frameworks that remain stable under pressure.

Professional Credentials¶

• Level 2 Dressage Specialist Qualification (issued 10.12.2014)
• Qualification aligned with high-performance sport education pathways
• Recognised through affiliations with the Institute of Sport (AIS)
• Linked to Olympic committee development frameworks

Professional Roles¶

• Founder & Director, Dressage Institute
• International dressage educator and consultant

Areas of Expertise¶

• Teaching and application of the German Training Scale
• Dressage biomechanics
• Rider decision-making under increasing difficulty
• Long-term horse development and soundness