(Posted 11/11/2001)
Head up! Heels down! The words ring in your head as you strive to perfect your form. Make no mistake your horse feels the tension too.
If this is how you typically feel when riding, particularly when working towards a specific training goal, you are not alone. Many riders "ride from the outside in," trying to force their body into a form without regard to what's going on from the inside
But through Tai Chi for Equestrians, students learn how to "ride from the inside out". The result is a gentler, softer, more relaxed and effective way to ride.
James Shaw, the Lakewood, California-based Tai Chi instructor behind this remarkable class takes the principles of this remarkable 4000-year-old healing and martial art, and applies them to riding. He explains that mastering this simple technique can begin to totally change the way you ride...and the way your horse responds.
The result is a gentler, softer, more relaxed and effective way of riding, whatever your discipline.
for the original see Tai Chi For Equestrians by Cynthia McFarland on Today's Horse 2000.
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