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Theresa Bontrup
So glad you’re here! Maybe we’ve just met. Yoga for riders · Yoga & horses

Relaxed in the saddle. Connected with your horse.

Hi, I’m Theresa – yoga teacher, a rider through and through, and I looove horses.

I help horse people strengthen the bond with their horse – through their own body and their own energy. You’ll become fitter, more flexible and calmer inside. And your horse will love it – promise!

Get in touch See what I offer
Theresa smiling and winking at the camera next to the head of her brown-and-white paint horse, with evening sun over a country lane behind them.
Three ways to work with me

Yoga you can feel
in the saddle.

Live, online or right among the horses – pick what suits you.

Theresa leading a yoga group in the yard of a riding stable, with horses grazing in the pasture behind. Live at Die Scheune Münster

Yoga for riders

Exercises for exactly the places that hold on when you ride: hips, back, shoulders. Plus breathing and meditation for more focus and inner calm in the saddle.

  • Move with your horse more freely, give finer aids
  • For everyone – with or without yoga experience
  • Regular classes at Die Scheune Münster
  • Seminars, also for riding clubs
Ask about classes ↗
Theresa sitting cross-legged on her yoga mat, laughing and talking with a participant. Online · with Pferdesport Deutschland

Supple through the winter

Four online yoga classes for riders, once a month via Zoom, each 8–9:15 pm German time. Every class has its own focus – together we work through the whole body. No experience needed. Held in German.

  • Nov 17 A quiet lower leg
  • Dec 21 Sitting the trot better
  • Jan 19 A stronger back
  • Feb 16 Pelvic floor: strengthen & release
  • Package: 4 for the price of 3 · €45 for club members, €81 regular · every class is recorded
To the yoga package ↗
Theresa laughing on a yoga mat in the pasture, with a relaxed pony lying down behind her. In the barn · in the pasture

Yoga with horses

Yoga with your own horse or surrounded by horses. When it gets quiet and the horses come closer, something very special happens. It’s all about energy.

  • For your barn, club or group
  • For events, trade fairs and companies
Ask about yoga with horses ↗
Next retreat · with Pferdesport Deutschland Reisen

Yoga retreat at
Gut Immenhof

Four days on Lake Keller in the Holstein Switzerland region of northern Germany – where the Immenhof films were shot.

Energising yoga in the morning, calm yoga and meditation in the evening. In between, a trail ride, a meditative pony walk and plenty of time for yourself. For everyone, whatever your experience – and yes, that childhood horse-girl feeling is included. Held in German.

In 2026 I already led retreats with Pferdesport Deutschland Reisen in the Lüneburg Heath and in Portugal.

Also · Sri Lanka

Abundanza

November 30 – December 7, 2026. A week in Sri Lanka about abundance you can feel in your body – with yoga, breathwork and lots of nature. Together with Dominik Wilmsen (breathwork) and Simon Tandree.

More about Abundanza ↗
Theresa riding a bay horse along a sandy coastal path, a second rider on a grey horse behind her and the sea to the right.
A ride along the coast of Portugal
When
April 8–11, 2027
Where
Gut Immenhof, Malente, Germany
Included
3 nights full board, yoga & meditation, one trail ride, one pony walk
Price
from €1,289 (club members), €1,389 regular, per person in a double room
Sign-up
by January 5, 2027 · 12–16 participants
Retreat details at Pferdesport Deutschland ↗
Theresa laughing with her eyes closed while a bay horse with a white blaze nuzzles her cheek.
About me

First the horses.
Then the yoga.

I’ve been in the saddle for as long as I can remember. Horses have always been home to me.

I discovered yoga later – and somewhere along the way I realised how well the two belong together. What I learn on the mat about body, breath and energy, my horse feels straight away. That’s exactly what I pass on today.

I work at Pferdesport Deutschland, the German equestrian federation’s club, and teach yoga there too: seminars, online classes and retreats.

It's all about energy.

  • Yoga teacherTeacher training at Maitri Yoga, Münster
  • Equine yogaTeacher training at Kindred Spirits, Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica (2024)
  • ClassesRegularly at Die Scheune Münster
  • SpeakerSeminars and online seminars for Club Pferdesport Deutschland
Moments

On the mat, in the saddle and in between.

A horse watches a yoga group holding warrior pose in a stable yard.
Yoga at the stable
Theresa in a yoga pose with raised arms on the back of a horse, jungle behind her.
Equine yoga training, Costa Rica
Two riders on a grey and a bay horse on a cliff above the Atlantic.
Portugal
Theresa smiling in warrior pose in front of a group.
Hooves & Hashtags 2026
Theresa laughing with a hand over her eyes, holding up the magazine with her interview.
You might know me from
  • Club Pferdesport Deutschland magazineInterview on yoga for riders
  • “Ponies aus’m Pott!” on YouTubeSpecial episode “Yoga with horses” with Peer & Jenny (in German)
    Watch the episode ↗
  • Hooves & Hashtags 2026Yoga session at NATURE’S BEST’s creator event
  • RetreatsLüneburg Heath and Portugal with Pferdesport Deutschland, Abundanza in Sri Lanka, soon Gut Immenhof
Let’s stay in touch

Fancy yoga
with horses?

Just write and tell me what you’re interested in. I’ll get back to you personally – in English or German.

  • Class at Die Scheune Münster
  • Online package
  • Yoga with horses at your barn
  • Seminar for your club
  • Retreat
  • Event or trade fair
Send an email Instagram @theresa.bontrup ↗
theresabontrup@aol.com