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Lessons in 'Feel'

Enjoy your journey!

Karen

Leslie Desmond Trainers’ Clinic

Aguanga, CA

Lessons with CALLIE

... Under revision

1. A good riding horse has life: don’t lose this by shutting him down on the ground

2. Know how you ride and how it feels to the horse

3. Preserve your horse’s diagonals and balanced locomotion

4. Timing the release: it’s like a box of chocolates

5. A different kind of pressure – and how to release it!

6. Time to spring clean – dig those skeletons out of the closet!

7. Why gallop?

8. Uncomfortable is not the same as incapable: tune into the difference

9. Sometimes it’s best just to enjoy the ride!

10. Really freeing up to go and really stopping – a reeducation

11. Line of sight – be sure you know what you ask for!

12. The importance of trust

By Karen Musson

The Art of Riding © Karen Musson 2007, All rights reserved.