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The Effortless Rider Reader
The newest in Wendy's Series of Readers!
Table of Contents:
The Not So Frequent Rider
The FELDENKRAIS METHOD for Effortless Riding Introduction and Overview.
Improving Your Weight Aids The Pelvic Clock
Shim Your Stirrups - For a better base of support.
How To Get Your Heels Down
A simple solution to a common riding problem.
5-Minute Warm Up #1 Find your hips.
5-Minute Warm Up #2 Free your rib cage.
5-Minute Warm Up #3 Lengthen your spine.
Anatomy of A Good Seat Reader
Table of contents:
Article 1. Gravity and Riding
Our skeleton- a bowling ball, a flexible straw, a bowl and a pair of stilts
Article 2. Gravity Part 2
The horse's skeleton a bowling ball, a flexible straw, a bowl and two pairs of stilts
Article 3. The Equine Seesaw:
How the horse can horizontally counterbalance the bowling ball
Article 4. If only we had X-ray vision—
A closer look at how the horse functions
Article 5. Rider Self-Carriage
Article 6. What the Saddle Does
The Essential Elements of Lateral Work Reader
Table of Contents:
Introduction to Lateral Work An overview of lateral movements.
Laterally Related Part 1 - A characteristec grouping of latearl movements.
Laterally Related Part 2 - A characteristic grouping of circular movements, or "are you dizzy yet?"
Laterally Related Part 3 - Moving on Three Tracks "Put the right foot in, take the right foot out, put the right foot in..."?
Laterally Related Part 4 - Moving From One Lateral Movement to Another "Which way to Millinocket?"?
Laterally Related Part 5- Connecting Circular Figures "Pirouettes in Your Parlor"
The DVD Series - Ride Like a Natural Collection
Part 1. Sitting Right on Your Horse
In this DVD Wendy shows you why it is important to sit in line with gravity and how to find this solid, safe position.
Part 2. Timing it Right on Your Horse
When you are in good alignment you will have the potential to communicate clearly with your horse. In Part 2 Wendy shows you how to time your aides within the horse's movement to minimize your aids and maximize your horse's responsiveness.
Part 3. Get on the Equiball with Wendy Murdoch
In Part 3 Wendy shows you exercises you can do on off the horse to improve your riding on the horse. These lessons are tailored to specific movements and positions on the horse.
Simplify Your Riding
Internationally acclaimed clinician Wendy Murdoch offers step-by-step techniques to improve your riding skills.
Dedicated horse riders of all disciplines, from beginners to those who compete at the highest level, share the desire to achieve personal excellence. In this book, Wendy shows riders of all skill levels how to eliminate unconscious restrictions and use their bodies to achieve a higher level of performance with their horses.
Featuring more than 200 step-by-step color photos, Simplify Your Riding breaks down the components of balance in the saddle, timing of your aids, riding with a deep seat, and moving in concert with your horse into easy-to-grasp building blocks from improvement. Wendy presents these concepts in a series of illustrated lessons that allow riders of all disciplines to bring her expertise and guidance right into their own riding ring.
(softcover, 170 pages, color photos and illustrations)
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