Rider Development with the Alexander Technique

Rider Development within Intelligent Horsemanship

  
"If you can’t discipline your own body, you cannot discipline your horse"
Charles de Kunffy.

What is Rider Development?  As a rider you are placing yourself, a mammal, on top of another mammal’s back. It is important to  develop your proprioceptive sense (i.e. knowing what your body is really doing).You will gain awareness of unconscious tensions within the body and mind and install a new and improved use of yourself. Rider development is essential if you want to be able to be clearer in receiving knowledge about what the horse is doing.

Riders communicate with the horse using their bodies. Problems can occur when our bodies hold unnecessary unconscious tensions which the horse ‘hears’ as background noise and can be contradictory to the intended communication. They are so habitual that we do not know that they exist - however, the horse will!

You will, over time and using a new process, be able to practice increasingly subtle and clearer aids free of unnecessary tension with little background ‘noise’. The use of Inhibition as an active means of developing a quality of stillness of the nervous system by which a truly different dialogue can take place between horse and rider.

Very special rates for riders.