#centered riding

[cryptidcavalier]

why have the standard genitalia when you can have a tiny grand piano and pianist instead

[bonnes-the-horse]

A friend just shared these with me and i cant.... idk if the illustrations are hilarious or horrifying.

[thecatalystcat]

Also Found

A copy of Sally Swifts Centred Riding for $5. Been searching for a copy of my own for a while now!

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Recommended Reading list for Developing Riders

Listed here in an ascending order, these are excellent manuals for the developing rider.

1 Centered Riding by Sally Swift. This is a veritable holy grail for beginning riders, with excellent illustrations and visual metaphors for improving rider position and seat. I have never met anyone who did not enjoy and revisit this book at some point in their riding career!

2 United States Pony Club: Manual of Horsemanship by Susan E. Harris. This is not one, but three books from Beginning to Advanced horsemanship and riding. Excellent, straightforward texts that cover not only riding but tack and equipment, stable management, basic veterinary knowledge, etc.

3 The Complete Training of Horse and Rider by Alois Podhajsky. Perhaps a bit on the dry side but utterly complete and correct, Podhajsky was the Director of The Spanish Riding School for many years. A talented author and a consummate horseman, his memoirs are excellent reading as well. This book is written in manual style starts from the beginning! Not a page turner, but an authoritative resource that belongs on every rider's bookshelf.

4 The Natural Rider by Mary Wanless. Like Sally Swift, Mary Wanless uses great metaphors and visuals to improve any rider's seat and understanding of the aids. Wanless focuses on the biomechanics of the horse and rider and her books are full of little pearls of wisdom. It is especially helpful for intermediate riders who have a good basic understanding of riding and are striving to develop and independent seat.      

[winterstormathena]

What in the hell is centered riding, Katii? 

"Centered Riding is an innovative way of expressing the classical principles of riding, using body awareness, centering, and imagery. Centered Riding encompasses all seats and styles of riding. It teaches a language that allows clearer communication between horse, rider, and instructor. Centered Riding was developed by Sally Swift, author of the best-selling book and videotapes, and is now taught by Centered Riding Instructors around the world.

Centered Riding is based on a knowledge of human and horse anatomy, balance, movement, and on understanding how the mind affects the body and how both affect the horse. It uses centering and grounding techniques from the oriental martial arts, along with body awareness, mental imagery and sports psychology. Through increasing body awareness, inhibiting old patterns, and replacing them with a more balanced, free, and coordinated use of self, both horse and rider can move more freely and comfortably, and develop their best performance."

The Four Basics: 

Soft Eyes - Encourage visual and physical awareness, better peripheral vision, and improved “feel.”

Breathing - Using the diaphragm and breathing correctly for better posture, relaxation, and energy.

Balance or Building Blocks - Aligns the riders body for improved balance, straightness, and ease of movement.

Centering - Using the center of balance, movement and control, located deep in the body, gives quiet strength, harmony and power, as in the oriental martial arts.

"Centered Riding teaches you how to help your body do what you need to do in order to ride well. Centered Riding techniques help promote suppleness, stability, and clearer aids, making riding more comfortable for both horse and rider. As you learn and experience the principles through your horse's motion and responses, you and your horse tune in to each other and work together in harmony. These techniques can increase confidence and enjoyment and release tension in horses and riders, making training easier. They also help people cope with old injuries or chronic conditions that cause pain during or after riding."

Basically Centered riding is everything you should be doing but you may not be aware you're doing wrong. if that makes any sense at all. like it changes your awareness of yourself. and it's amazing because you never actually realise how off your perception of yourself is.

heres an exercise:

close your eyes and put your arms out straight in front of you. Lower your left arm down and raise your right arm up. with your eyes still closed bring your arms back to what you believe to be centered without touching your arms together. then open your eyes. 

i'm going to bet you 5 bucks your arms are not nearly as straight or centered as you thought that they were. this is a pretty good indicator of how off you perceive your center to actually be

all that centered riding is, is finding balance and harmony with your horse. It's relieving all of that joint pain you get from forcing your heels down needlessly in the stirrups. it's relieving all of the tension that's holding you back from improving your riding. Centered riding is riding to the best of your ability. 

Centered riding was originally coined by Sally Swift who has written a several books on the subject. There are many other instructors certified in centered riding, and others that have branched off such as Wendy Murdoch whom of which i actually had a clinic with not too long ago which was really cool. She's also written books on her own methods.

Centered riding combines both riding work as well as ground work using different tools to slightly alter and change the awareness of your body, and eventually will change the way that you ride for the better.

I'll definitely have to change this post more when i'm not totally exhausted. 

[winterstormathena]

My second video for equestrian talk was mostly not me talking, but rather an amazing centered riding instructor. Wendy Murdoch came and did a clinic for my Balanced Equitation II class where we used her sure foot pads to help the horses learn new habits in how they hold themselves and use their muscles in order to move.