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Lessons in 'Feel'

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The Feel of Release

RIDING CALLE

by Karen Musson

   Table of Contents

1. Exhilarating riding & connecting with the horse

The true exhilaration for me was not in the risk though. It was in the connection with the horse. A vital connection, and one that carried us through these adventures unscathed for years. How inspiring it was then to discover that this was only the tip of the iceberg… read more...

2. Calle’s maneuverability at the gallop

Calle was showing me the feel of Leslie’s foundation: the feel of release... read more...

3. For lightness in a ride, ride with lightness

There is a weight to that plan to use pressure somehow, which left me. And when the feel of release is in your veins, every horse you encounter seems to know it... read more...

4. Adjusting to Calle and the reciprocal feel of release

It is astonishing that the feel in such common-place presentations to the horse, is often really quite contrary to what we actually mean the horse to do!  read more...

5. Calle’s clinic finale – exquisite ‘feel and release’… the proof is in the pudding

The feel was of a horse wholly available in every cell, tuned into my intent, for any maneuver I had in mind, with optimal athleticism and the most accurate and sure footwork imaginable...  read more...

6. The source of genuine lightness is already in the horse and available

With shoulders elevated, hips coiled and life released with accuracy and poise, each horse is exactly and directly where needed, in order to follow the feel uniquely experienced in that particular moment. Calle’s feel under saddle retained these characteristics... read more...

7. Riding Luigi – before and after Leslie’s foundation

It was a real pleasure to feel the significant changes in Luigi “before” and “after”. One stellar horse! read more...

8. A foundation that preserves, accesses and shapes the feel of a horse

Such uncommon access to the horse is inherent in the layers Leslie builds in to develop these maneuvers – like baklava: an end result that depends on each and every layer of filo as well as the dedication of care, attention and time... read more...

9. Getting with a horse through feel: releasing the partner in him to you

This horse showed me a deeper value in this approach – a way to get with a more troubled horse through feel, or, to connect with ”his true nature to get along”, as Bill Dorrance teaches us, and release the partner to you... read more...

10. The “Softness Onion” – an ongoing discovery of the horse

In Leslie’s approach, the partnership offered from the horse is rooted directly in the feel between you, in the connection itself. The reward is You, rather than a mutually understood release of pressure from you or incentive awarded from your hand. It has an altogether different feel that is literally released from within both of you – core to core, direct... read more...

11. She is quite something, that Calle

Calle showed me Leslie’s way, and the scintillating, true feel of a horse, with mind and athletic capacities released to you... read more...

 

Karen Musson is a Trainer, Coach and Clinician, recommended by Leslie Desmond (see her trainers’ profile at http://www.lesliedesmond.com/index.php?id=335). For more information visit Karen on the Web: www.TheArtOfRiding.com, TheArtOfRiding.blogspot.com, www.youtube.com/TheArtOfRiding

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