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Balanced Horse Training Program

Balanced Horse Training (BHT) teaches both horse and human to feel, not just perform. Every phase is built to strengthen communication, increase confidence, and bring out the best in both partners. From Groundwork & Riding Essentials through Intermediate & Advanced Modules, you’ll develop not just skills, but understanding — the kind that lasts through every ride.

Kalley offers four BHT membership options, flexible to your current needs, and easily expandable as you progress.

(4) Memberships to Choose From:
  • BHT Groundwork & Liberty
  • BHT Riding
  • BHT All Access
  • OTTB Transitional Training Program
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Groundwork

On-line, Off-line/Liberty

15 Courses

 Overview

BHT Essentials starts with foundational basics of clarity and connection: establishing space, boundaries, and lightness through purposeful ground movement.

Intermediate lessons add precision and flow: using patterns for developing a responsive, balanced horse who stays mentally connected through every turn, transition, and task. This is where precision meets feel — where groundwork turns into partnership in motion.

Freedom through focus: perform obstacles and liberty maneuvers with timing and feel. The Advanced Groundwork is where horse and human move together in self-carriage — at liberty, at distance, and in complete understanding. Every cue becomes intention, and movement flows from trust and respect.

$40/Monthly

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$480/Billed Annually

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Riding

Balance, Feel & Body Control

38 Courses

Overview

Riding Essentials is where we put the foundation in place. You’ll learn to guide all four feet with your reins, move the horse’s body with your body – sternum riding, seat, feet, & hands with accurate intent.

Intermediate Riding lessons focus on refining how you accomplish transitions, collection, and suppleness through balance and feel. The Intermediate lessons focus on shaping movement and building control through rhythm, posture, and flow. This level bridges everyday riding with higher-level responsiveness—without losing lightness or connection.

The Advanced Riding Program is where  you’ll learn to ride with invisible cues—using your seat, physics, and intent to guide movement instead of relying on direct pressure. The horse learns to stay relaxed and balanced even in challenging maneuvers.

$40/Monthly

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All-Access

Groundwork + Riding Programs

53 Courses

Overview:

The All Access is designed for people who want a complete understanding of Kalley’s balanced approach – Essentials through Advanced.

Over 80 lessons that teach you how the horse thinks, moves, and learns — and how to carry that same feel from the ground into the saddle. 

$65/Monthly

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$780/Billed Annually

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Off-Track Thoroughbred

Transitional Training Program
Exclusive Membership

OTTB Transitional Training Program

The best start for any horse is a calm, thoughtful start or restart. That’s what this transitional program gives you.

Kalley’s OTTB Transitional Training Program combines the fundamentals of Balanced Horsemanship with a thoughtful, step-by-step approach designed specifically for the Thoroughbred Racehorse mind. It teaches both horse and handler how to replace both instinctive and trained reactions with calm responses — creating confidence, control, and partnership on the ground and under saddle. The program lessons and instruction covers four core key areas, each organized into essential Stages, helping the Off-Track Thoroughbred find mental balance, follow a light feel, and get a fresh start.
Package Includes:
  • Ground Manners
  • Groundwork Skills
  • Riding Preparation
  • Basic Riding Skills
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“My name is Kay Palmer, and I have been training barrel horses professionally for 8 years now. I met Kalley when I moved to Triple Crown a few years back. Kalley’s knowledge has been a game-changer for my program! She has been the perfect combination of body control and horsemanship. I feel like Kalley is my secret weapon when it comes to training a horse to be confident and trusting of me at a high rate of speed. Kalley has been kind enough to help me with everything from off-the-track horses, green broke horses, improving performing horses, and fixing blown-up horses. Kalley has been able to just watch a horse move and give clear instructions on how to better control specific body parts for specific maneuvers. Her understanding of the horse’s mechanics and clear communication to teach me what she knows is unmatched by anyone I have worked with. She has taught me how to work with the minds of the more difficult horses through specific pressures that can be clearly understood by the horses. The combination of clear communication with the horses and a better understanding of their physical mechanics is a huge advantage to any training program. I highly recommend Kalley Krickenberg’s Balanced Horse Training!”

Kay Palmer
Professional Horse Trainer

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Groundwork Program Membership

On-line, Off-line/Liberty

Overview

When you build a foundation of understanding and respect with feel, everything else comes easy. That’s the goal — balance from the ground up.

BHT Groundwork Program builds communication through the horse’s natural responses to pressure and release, body language, and the drive-line — that invisible line that influences direction, speed, and focus. The goal: Develop a calm, connected, and confident partner who moves off your feel — not your strength.

Member Benefits
  • Groundwork video lessons - Essentials, Intermediate, & Advanced
  • Members Newsletter with news, program updates, and special promotions
  • Member-only discounts on tools & gear, educational books and guides, clinics, and events.
  • New lessons and troubleshooting videos, added regularly, to keep your training fresh and progressive.
Course Details
BHT Essentials starts with foundational basics of clarity and connection: establish space, boundaries, and lightness through purposeful movement.
What You’ll Work On:
  • Building confidence through sight exposure, touch, and a rhythmic flow between circles and obstacles like bridges, tarps, ground poles and more.
  • Establishing “driveline control” — using your natural focus and path of travel, to guide and direct the motion of the horse in regards to their natural tendencies surrounding the Driveline
  • Teaching lightness through forequarter and hindquarter yields, back-ups, and smooth circles.
  • Developing light communication — where two fingers on the line can move your horse’s whole body.
Add precision and flow: using patterns for developing a responsive, balanced horse who stays mentally connected through every turn, transition, and task.This is where precision meets feel — where groundwork turns into partnership in motion.
What You’ll Work On:
  • Patterns like the Tear Drop, Leapfrog, and Slice-n-Dice to control and coordinate the forehand and hindquarters.
  • Pivots and slack-line circles to improve rhythm and lightness.
  • Liberty transitions that test trust, respect and timing.
  • Advanced steering through Sternum Steering and Convex Circles.
  • Introducing advanced groundwork skills like using the “knot lariat” in a safe, controlled way.
Freedom through focus: perform obstacles and liberty maneuvers with timing and feel. The Advanced Groundwork module transforms into artistry. This is where horse and human move together in self-carriage — at liberty, at distance, and in complete understanding. Every cue becomes intention, and every movement flows from trust and respect.
What You’ll Work On:
  • Mastering maneuvers and obstacles at distance with accuracy and lightness.
  • Refining circles, pivots, and transitions for advanced balance and rhythm.
  • Liberty exercises like Lead Changes, Mirroring and Sternum Steering.
  • Engaging multiple obstacles and changing patterns without losing connection.
  • Cultivating self-carriage — where your horse takes responsibility for balance and rhythm.
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Riding Program Membership

Balance, Feel & Body Control

Overview

When you ride with feel you start to realize how little you actually need to do.

Ride with intention, not reaction. BHT Riding Program builds on the Groundwork, helping riders connect through seat position, timing, and balance. It’s about riding with clarity , precision and control. You’ll learn to use your seat, feet, “comma, comma” hands, and focus in ways that make sense to your horse. Every cue has a meaning, and every balanced ride builds trust, respect, and understanding.

Each level—Essentials, Intermediate, and Advanced—gives you a step-by-step framework for developing a horse that moves freely, willingly, and with purpose.

Member Benefits
  • Riding video lessons - Essentials, Intermediate, & Advanced
  • Members Newsletter with news, program updates, and special promotions
  • Member-only discounts on tools & gear, educational books and guides, clinics, and events.
  • New lessons and troubleshooting videos, added regularly, to keep your training fresh and progressive.
Course Details
Essentials — Build Connection and Confidence in Motion
This is where we put the foundation in place. You’ll learn to guide all four feet with your reins, move the horse’s body with your body – sternum riding, seat, feet, & hands with accurate intent. The Essentials lessons help you and your horse find balance and communication through simple, meaningful exercises. You’ll start to see how your horse mirrors your position and follows your light feel when you ride with clarity.
What You’ll Work On:
  • Rein to all four feet—understanding how each rein connects to movement.
  • One-rein backups, light bends, and easy transitions.
  • Forward rhythm and straightness through all gaits.
  • Relaxed stops and balanced turns without tension.
  • Using physics, your body and focus to guide direction instead of relying on direct pressure.
Intermediate — Shape, Balance, and Refinement
Now that your horse understands the basics, it’s time to refine how you accomplish transitions, collection, and suppleness through balance and feel. The Intermediate lessons focus on shaping movement and building control through rhythm, posture, and flow. This level bridges everyday riding with higher-level responsiveness—without losing lightness or connection. Collection isn’t about pulling or shoving a horse together. It’s about helping them find their own balance so they want to carry themselves.
What You’ll Work On:
  • Lateral work like half-passes, counter-bends, and correct turns.
  • Timing and rhythm through transitions and lateral movements.
  • Collection through body balance and holding a frame, but not pulling on the reins.
  • Introducing simple patterns to improve precision and flow.
  • Maintaining feel and focus at different speeds and energy levels.
Advanced — Refine the Feel: Connection Through Precision
The Advanced Riding Program is where the smallest details make the biggest difference. You’ll learn to ride with invisible cues—using your seat, physics, and intent to guide movement instead of relying on direct pressure. The horse learns to stay relaxed and balanced even in challenging maneuvers.
What You’ll Work On:
  • Lead changes, pirouettes, and advanced transitions.
  • Strengthening collection and self-carriage.
  • Straightness and balance through higher-energy/higher effort work.
  • Light stops, precise turns, and smooth rollbacks.
  • Riding through energy, not effort—refining truly following a feel.
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All-Access — All Inclusive BHT Membership

BHT Groundwork + Riding Programs

Overview

When you connect the groundwork to the riding, you don’t just train a horse — you build a relationship that works anywhere.

The All-Access Anytime Membership is designed to meet you wherever you are — from the first touch of a lead rope to the lightest cue under saddle. It’s about teaching your horse to think, not react. And it’s about helping you ride and work with balance, clarity, and purpose — every day, in every interaction.

All-Access Member Benefits
  • All lessons in both Ground/Liberty and Riding programs — all levels, all topics.
  • BHT Members Newsletter with news, program updates, special promotions, and more
  • Step-by-step videos that connect groundwork, liberty, and riding - all levels - in a single system.
  • Exclusive discounts on BHT gear and training tools.
  • New lessons, added monthly, so your training never stops growing.
Course Details

BHT All-Access is for the horseman or horsewoman who wants it all — the full program from groundwork through to advanced riding, combining both the BHT Ground/Liberty and BHT Riding Programs.

This membership is designed for people who want a complete understanding of Kalley’s balanced approach of understanding how the horse thinks, moves, and learns — and how to carry that same feel from the ground into the saddle. You’ll learn not only what to do, but why it matters.

  • Establishing communication and boundaries through groundwork and liberty.
  • Understanding the horse’s natural response to pressure and the drive-line.
  • Developing body control, focus, and timing for true connection.
  • Translating groundwork skills directly into the saddle for light, balanced movement.
  • Building feel through positioning, seat, and rhythm — so your cues make sense to the horse.
  • Refining transitions, collection, and advanced maneuvers through understanding and respect, not force.

When you train with balance and clarity, the horse learns to trust your leadership — on the ground and under saddle. The AAA Membership connects every piece of the puzzle: how the horse thinks, how they move, and how your body language, timing, and feel shape the conversation between you.

You’ll start to see how groundwork and riding aren’t two separate worlds — they’re the same language, spoken in different places. By combining both programs, you’ll develop timing that feels effortless, movement that flows naturally, and a partnership built on mutual understanding.