Books with Spirit - Horse Riding

Here’s an excercise you can do in the kitchen that will blow most of your minds away!  I suggest that you print this out so  you can carry it around (just print “this page” otherwise you’ll be printing all the blog articles out.) 

Now, sit on a kitchen type chair as if you were riding your horse, in a normal riding position.  Now feel the shape of your sitting bones poking into the chair.  Yes, for most of you, notice how they are poking into your chair!  Imagine what your horse feels like …

Now tuck your butt under and soften your lower back.  Feel how those sitting bones can now “slide” along the horses back as he moves. 

Then explore sitting up straight (which will have most of you poking your sitting bones into the imaginary horses back again - just like you were taught to do in most every riding lessons!) How uncomfortsable is THAT for your horse?

Now here’s a more comfortable position for your horse, tuck your butt back under again and open up your chest without changing your lower back position.  So it’s not “sitting up” that gives the required result is it?

Now for those who were taught to kick a horse to go, sit there and kick your imaginary horse and see what happens to your sitting bones.  Yuk again! 

Now for those who were taught to squeeze with their legs as the “go” signal, squeeze your imaginary horse and see what happens to your sitting bones - YUK!!!  No wonder so many horses go hollow backed, they are arching their backs away from the pain of our sitting bones!!!

Now when you have found that same comfortable sitting bone position for the horse on horseback, butt tucked under and lower back softened, and you get your horse to WALK along, allow the energy of the horses movement to “drop over the front of your thighs” which will help you keep the lovely sitting bones in the right place.

That excercise on Page  160  of Bobby’s Diaries where Bobby was doing that healing excercise on my back - that’s great to get the lower back softened up for being able to hold a good sitting bone position. 

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Now for the trot, who got taught “up down, up down”? It’s a bit hard to do it exactly the way you would to a horse’s movement when you are in your chair, but feel what happens to your sitting bones next time you’re on your horse and see what it does to your legs to be doing “up  down, up down” - having tension in them, moving around all over the place and not staying nice and still against the horses side like they need to be if we’re going to use them for communication!

Well surprise, like so much of what we got taught with horses, it’s crap!!! A movement that keeps those lovely feeling sitting bones is to allow the horses movement to take you forwards and down, backwards and down, allowing the energy of the movement to roll over the front of your thighs again.

And remember, it’s easy to explore these different ideas about position when you’re in your comfort zone, difficult to do in the tension of the not too sure zone and almost impossible to do in the oh shit zone I’m dead zone. See Bobby’s Diaries again for that eye opening concept.

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Jenny Pearce.