Sense the changes in your feet as you slowly turn just a few centimeters to the right or left.On your horse: Spend some time at the beginning of each ride walking with feel out of stirrups and eyes closed and find your two evenly weighted seat bones. Sit on the ball and slowly shift your balance and posture by making small, repetitive movements.NIKE TN pas cher, Then imagine this flexible column being long,heavy at the base and light at the top--the tail bone sinking while the 7th cervical at the base of your neck and the collar bones and 1st ribs all float upward. You can round your back a tiny bit, arch it, look down or up. Imagine your flexible spine from tailbone to head and all of the ribs attached and the sternum in front. If you turn in one direction and twist the spring a little tighter from one end the whole spring winds. Allow your body to come back to this place and enjoy the feeling of unity.Try these exercises while sensing yourself, allowing the sensations to come, not judging but just being curious and receptive to your own body:On a flat chair or bench or a physio-ball: Play with changes of balance and posture by making small movements while sitting on a chair or on a big physio ball. Sometimes figuring it all out just gets in the way, big time!1) Feel and sense yourself, don't think.2) ALLOW yourself to be in a more balanced position, don't try to force yourself into a position you think is correct.3) Experience small changes by allowing and sensing, gradually you will be more in the middle of your horse more of the time.4) Picture in your mind's eye aNike Air Max 2009 Homme moment when you felt very balanced and in unity with your horse. Do each movement half a dozen times and experiment with each small movement and your ability to sense yourself , not by thinking and forcing but by making small movements and noticing the changes. Imagine your spine as a long spring--one end easily connected to the other--with no kinks. Your neck is free to move on top of your lengthened spine, your head is perfectly balanced upon your supple, supporting neck. turn right or left, or put more weight on one seat bone and then the other. Your hands easily hold the reins with no tension.Then open your eyes and do some walk-trot-walk-trot (only a few steps of each) retaining the feeling of a supple, supported, balanced you moving in concert with your horse.For more exercises related to riding like a pro go to http://www.sitthetrot.comMichele Morseth, MA Sit The Trot! Body Awareness and Movement Education for Equestrians and Everybody. Sense the way your horse moves your pelvic bowl and then each of the 24 vertebrae up to your head. Your ribs are able to expand in all directions and your lungs easily fill with air. As you pay attention Nike Air Max 2010 Homme to each shift in the way you are sitting notice changes in your feet and ankles, all along the vertebrae of your spine, in the way your head balances on your spine, the way your eyes move (or don't), or in the way your shoulders hang or stiffen up. Teaching clinics for all levels of equestrians through the nation. See more articles, movement explorations, and my newsletters on http://www.SitTheTrot.com.
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