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Ride with Your Mind Essentials: Innovative Learning Strategies for Basic Riding Skills »
Authors: Mary Wanless
ISBN-13: 9781570762444, ISBN-10: 1570762449
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Trafalgar Square
Date Published: March 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Mary Wanless
Mary Wanless is known throughout the world for Ride with Your Mind method. Her previous titles include The Natural Rider, Ride with Your Mind, For the Good of the Horse, and For the Good of the Rider, plus eight videos. She teaches regularly in the U.S. but makes her home in Oxon, England.
Book Synopsis
In this all–color workbook, prominent riding expert Mary Wanless presents new strategies for learning her popular Ride With Your Mind method.
The American Quarter Horse Journal
The Mary Wanless approach to teaching horsemanship has had a major impact on many riders, making greater communication and cooperation with the horse possible.
Table of Contents
| Introduction--How to Use This Book | 9 | |
| 1 | The Basic Position--Alignment | 13 |
| 2 | The Essential Connection--Seat Bones | 22 |
| 3 | Sitting Still in the Saddle--Plugging In | 28 |
| 4 | Security, Strength and Power--Bear Down | 34 |
| 5 | Breathing--How to Bear Down and Breathe | 42 |
| 6 | Firming up the Body--Muscle Tone, and the Learning Process | 47 |
| 7 | Sitting Lightly--Supporting Your Own Bodyweight | 56 |
| 8 | Using the Back--Narrowness (The 'Pinch') | 64 |
| 9 | Turns and Circles Demystified--An Introduction to Steering | 71 |
| 10 | Leg, Leg, Leg?--Lower Legs, the Physical Challenge | 81 |
| 11 | Discovering a Contact--Contact and the Walk/Halt Transitions | 91 |
| 12 | An Independent Seat--Matching the Forces Acting on Your Body | 103 |
| 13 | On the Bit?--Shaping the Horse | 114 |
| 14 | The Rider/Horse Partnership--An Overview of the Rider/Horse Interaction | 127 |
| Resources--Addresses, Books, Videos, and Equipment | 133 | |
| Glossary--Ride with Your Mind Terms | 135 | |
| Index | 142 |
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