How can I teach my horse to be calm like the Dressage horses?

I would really love to teach my horse some dressage so we could bond more, but she just is way to hyper to go easy. Every timee I ride her she just wants to run! When I just try trotting her, she gets the wrong idea and thinks we are going to run, but all i intended to do was just a nice easy trot instead of her outta control trot :p. She is a mustang/quarterhorse…dont know if that really matters but please help!!

dressage horses are schooled for many, many hours over years of training. A lot of it is just repetition and gradual, incremental improvement.

You don’t give any indication of your horse’s background. If she was used for gymkhana or other "speed" events, or was ridden/trained by someone who wanted her to run a lot of the time, then you have to be patient because you’re going to have to "untrain" her and that isn’t going to happen overnight. It’s going to involve teaching her to relax and just getting her to slow down, praising her when she becomes relaxed, and never, ever revving her up and making her get "hot."

It can also happen that she does not have the basic temperament of a dead-calm dressage horse. Not every horse can be dead calm and do well in dressage; the ones you see in the show-ring are the ones that have the temperament to be calm and level-headed. My dressage trainer rejected many horses on the basis of temperamental unsuitability for the demands of dressage; that doesn’t mean they were bad horses, it just meant they couldn’t excel.

Your horse can undoubtedly become calmer than she is, but she may not be able to be as dead-calm as a top dressage horse. The key is patience, patience, patience and a lot of work.