Training is more than just horse riding
In fact, you learn better to feel and to understand what balance is from the ground and how you can help your horse with this. The insights you gain from the ground you include in your riding. Everything becomes more clear to you. You gain more sympathy for your horse and why your horse has difficulty with things such as keeping pace and a nice steady light contact.
Training from the ground also has great benefits for the horse. The horse learns to organize and coordinate its own body without the weight of the rider on its back. The horse will become more self-assured because he understands better what is expected of him. Also physically, in groundwork the horse will be better prepared and enables the horse to perform better what is requested of the rider. First without the weight of the rider and later with. In the training you work progressively. From teaching the horse so he understands you, to enable the horse physically, to increase the level and endurance of performance. Everything slowly, gently and gradually! Learning to see and feel and being able to estimate where your horse stands in its development is invaluable. That makes you an empathetic and conscious trainer! A trainer your horse likes to connect with!
Finally, the quality of training your horse is inextricably linked to the qualities that you have as a person. In my lessons I therefore pay a lot of attention to how you use your own body and energy and with which mindset and underlying emotion. The horse is like a mirror and will return what you radiate consciously or unconsciously. And this does not only apply to training from the ground, but also when you ride! The horse can only use its body correctly when you do this. The horse can only experience balance when you are also in balance. The horse can only feel relaxed and safe when you are aware of your own emotions and radiate peace.