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The BALANCE office is open, but for fewer hours each day than before Covid!
Our normal working days are Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.
If you are ordering through the online shop, please pay attention to any notices about any temporary closures, potential delays in lead times and delivery times.
Our Functional Saddling System respects the way a horse needs to function to be healthy and sound. We provide information, education, and a big range of saddling equipment that has been specifically designed to get amazing results.
Before You Order!
Please be aware, that products that we have to order for you, are often taking longer to make than before Covid and Brexit! 'Normal' manufacturers lead times, seem to be a thing of the past😕 and shipping services, outside of the UK are still causing problems.
We will continue to work hard to keep things running smoothly, but please be patient if there is a delay in getting your order to you.
Please also note that we will not be dispatching or processing orders after Thursday 20th May until Monday 7th of June, while the office is closed. However, you can still use the shop to send in your orders during that time.
On the 16th of April, which was the 28th anniversary of the launch of the BALANCE Organisation, I used our Facebook Page to reveal a short film that has been made about a research project, comparing the way horses move in their own, conventionally fitted saddles and saddles used as part of a Functional Saddling method, AKA the BALANCE Saddling...
This News Item is here to give you up-to-date information on our office opening hours as well as any enforced disruption/closure due to the Corona Virus. Its hard to imagine that we are heading towards a full year since the office had to close to normal routine and business, due to Covid 19 lockdowns and restrictions....
I have just been looking at other makes and models of saddle online, to get an idea of how the price of BALANCE saddles compares to what else is available. We have reluctantly had to increase our prices again, after the manufactures have announced another big, and immediate increase, due to them having to allow for the impact of Brexit...
During a recent session of tidying my office and looking through old paperwork and files, I made the mistake of looking through some old diaries that Carol and I used to use before the days of iCal. Of course, this is a dangerous thing to do, because inevitably, we end up spending the time allocated to...
BALANCE Functional Saddling
A whole approach to designing, choosing and using saddles that respects and protects the ridden horse’s health, soundness and well-being.
Maintenance Saddling
A simple Saddling System that works to maintain healthy musculature, posture, movement & performance in the ridden horse.
BALANCE Functional Padding System
Versatile and adjustable pads, for horses to experience comfort & freedom, when used under an appropriate BALANCE saddle, or other makes of saddle with the right design features and width options.
Remedial Saddling
Helping horses to recover to their full health and ability after illness, lameness or previous saddle damage.
Beyond the Saddle
Application of Functional Saddling supports the aim of riders who study & respect the bio-mechanics of efficient, safe & therefore, beautiful movement in their horses.
International Support
Helping people & helping horses around the world, through a TEAM of dedicated & trained Saddle Consultants or Test Ride Facilitators in addition to support from BALANCE HQ.
Thanks for you very professional advice along the way and I would highly recommend the BALANCE team to anyone
Joy & Chiquita
If you get a moment - please could you pass on my thanks to Carol for taking the time to help me and my poor ex racehorse on Wed last week and It really opened my eyes to a number of things and now I am feeling very confident that he will 'come good'!!
Andrea, Yorkshire
Carol Brett at BALANCE, recommended a saddle and the
Remedial Programme to help us get started. I haven’t had a single problem with
Lachlan’s back again. He’s pain-free, light in the hand, happy to be saddled,
and has returned to his happy willing self!
He looks and feels fantastic!
Anna and Lachlan
The BALANCE "wholeistic" approach is beyond description, that resource I so desperately needed.
Thank you from all of us, Carol and Lesley, for helping horses heal.
Carol Grubb
Melinda
I had always dreamed of this kind of a saddle fitting. I wasn't at all sure it existed. Finding the right saddle is so EXTREMELY important - and I have found a company that REALLY knows that.
Lisa.
I am often asked for advice on saddles and I always
recommend speaking to the BALANCE team. As a result, I have seen dozens
of instances where the introduction of the BALANCE system works dramatic
improvement in a horse’s behaviour and movement
25 years of using BALANCE – I would never change.
Hazel Offord. Wendelbury Stud
The BALANCE Saddling System, does not only help with comfort
for the horse, but also with its posture and basic way of going.
The saddles allow the horse to move back towards its Natural
Correctness and carry its movement from the hind quarters.
Sarah Ussher (Trainer)
I can’t tell you how much I love my Zenith!!! I went through 10 saddles in 6 years for my horse before I got my Zenith. Two were “custom” made for him. What a joke. I am on my 5th year with my Zenith and it is still perfect!!! I cringe now when I see these very deep Dressage saddles with the huge thigh blocks. People ask me how I can ride in my Zenith with no thigh blocks and no deep seat. I say well now my horse is balanced and I don’t have to depend on the saddle to hold me. ☺️
Melinda
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