If you want a secure and stable riding seat – the kind that the very best riders have – and if you want that on a happy horse – you’ve come to the right place:
There’s a riding position that I call “connecting heaven and earth in the saddle” that is LITERALLY sucked into the saddle like a magnet. It’s a joyful feeling to be so deeply connected to our horse’s back. And it feels good to our horse too.
Taking you off your horse to learn this riding position is the secret ingredient for such a dramatic change. THEN you can effortlessly flow that seat onto your horses back.
We teach the riding seat initially in a chair like Donna above or on something like a 44 gallon drum like Jeremy coming up – where the person can completely focus on themselves and the feeling of their body as it slides into the perfect riding seat. When they’ve re-programmed that into their brain and muscles, then we take the security of that lovely foundation out to their horse.
Let me repeat that because it’s at the heart of why this way of learning is FAST.
“When they’ve re-programmed their perfect riding seat into their brain and muscles”. We show you how to do that. It means you don’t have to practice, or repeat the same thing over and over again to achieve a lovely riding seat. This is how come we can call this way of learning FAST.
“Without practicing or even thinking about it, the riding position has become automatic – kind of cool, as most things I have to repeat and work hard at, before it becomes a habit.”
That’s our Sandra Hagan campdrafting with Ghabbi, a very versatile OTTB, photo by Sally Jane Photography. Did you notice she said “without practicing”? This way of learning makes your new riding seat effortless.
It’s a kind of spongey feeling as your spine and joints take up the movement.
Check out the photos above and below – when you push on someone in their perfect riding position, it just drives their seat bones deeper into the saddle. In that top photo I’m really pushing and Jeremy’s body is just … man it’s hard to find the words to describe what it feels like… it’s a kind of spongey feeling as the spine and joints take up the movement. You’ll see student stories on the blog – they’re so connected and so stable that they flow with their horse easily, even when something unexpected happens.
Valezka wrote to me so excited after her first trail ride ever. “My seat was still glued in and my body naturally flowed with her and we stayed together. This was my very first shy on any horse.”
Imagine what it would be like to find the security of a perfect riding seat so easily?
Above is Jeremy’s first time on a horse EVER and I still can’t push him out of the saddle. The rest of his body flowed effortlessly into a lovely riding position on Bobby’s back just from the way we had programmed his brain and muscles the day on the 44 gallon drum the day before. The harder I push on him, the deeper into the saddle he goes. (I don’t want to push too hard in this instance, that’s a live horse under there!)
Your horse LOVES this beautiful, deeply connected seat where your body can “talk” to your horse. We’ve perfected teaching this no matter where you are in the world.
Not only does the horse love the stability of this riding position because it’s so much more comfortable for their back, the rider’s ability to communicate with their body is clear and gentle and effective – and horse’s love that clarity too. From that stable base, our horse can learn to flow with our body movements without the contradictory signals of seat bones pointed in one direction, legs and hands in another, or the tension or “over-riding” that disconnects you from your horse. If you don’t know what I mean by over riding, come into one of our free monthly seminars or pick up a lesson and I’ll bring you the feel and solution of it at the same time.
The message for nervous riders is simple – something has to change if you want riding to be joyful.
I can just about guarantee that your nerves are caused by your sensitivity to your horse – and that’s the very thing that will make you a brilliant horse person when you understand how to use it for your and the horse’s benefit. Helping people to turn that sensitivity into the gift that it really is, is one of my specialties.
You wouldn’t believe how many people are riding horses that I wouldn’t let anyone ride yet – that even some of the greatest horsemen in the world wouldn’t get on yet. (Frederic Pignon of Cavalia fame gets off a horse that has ANY tension in its body when he’s starting them, because he doesn’t want to teach it tension!) Getting on horses that aren’t ready is the stark and simple reason that there’s so many accidents.
The rider’s nerves are very often their survival mechanism at work. When they understand how fear works, fill in the gaps in their training with us and deepen their communication with their horse, the nerves just disappear. The nerves just aren’t needed any more and the reason you came into horses can unfold.
Every lesson with me is an experience that short cuts learning – it’s a unique cross between a deep reverence for the horse, advanced sports psychology, alternative therapy, re-programming the brain and muscles and my phenomenal Feel for both people and horses. We create a new normal really fast.
Fast… Effortless… Effective… Gentle… Feel good…
Let’s get into some people’s stories to fill out the picture:
Kristine Nesbitt, a double world reining champion said that what she got from one session here was bigger than her world championships. (You can listen to the audio of that interview on the blog.) She was in a chair 14,000 kilometers away when we worked together. With our trademark “off the horse” lesson, she cleaned up a stuck spot in her riding. When she got back in the saddle after the session, a seriously difficult horse she was re-training was no longer difficult – but bigger than that, she resolved a life long confidence issue. Yes – double world champion and she cleaned up a life long confidence issue.
I’ve decided not to drown you in testimonials, I’ve got pages and pages of them, many of them from people thousands of miles away, but there is one more very important thing.
Tension from old falls disconnects your seat from your horse.
Another specialty here, is eliminating the tension from old falls and accidents – the tension of which disconnects our riding seat from our horse’s back and gets in the way of the beautiful communication with our bodies.
Feel it now while you’re reading. Tense your butt just a little and feel how that perches you above your chair instead of in it. It’s a recipe for the next fall off our horse when we’re that disconnected from their back. It’s a common reason for even riders on the world stage to eventually lose their nerve. And it’s totally fixable.
Some of these old falls and accidents are closer to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder than just a fright. In this video Leanne is talking about the results of clearing away the effects and tension of PTSD from a 20 year old accident in the video below. She was positively joyful in this simulation session – two years of weekly psychotherapy on and around the same issue hadn’t noticeably reduced the debilitating fear and tension from that terrible accident. You’re watching Leanne on my vaulting horse made from a 44 gallon drum that we call Magic – because magic happens on Magic. 🙂 You can achieve the same results in a chair.
Notice the large discount for a bundle of 3 lessons, which can be whatever combination of healing and horsemanship sessions you prefer. 🙂 Click on the little arrow next to the single session item will bring up those saving opportunities.