Ep. 68 Reinforcing bars!
Send us your feedback! ‘Rebars’ are the dull red metal uprights you see sticking up within the frames used on building sites when pouring concrete pillars. Rebars also have smaller horizontal pieces o...
30 Aug 202419min
Ep. 67 Top down or bottom up?
Send us your feedback! Most riders can organize their body much better from the top down, or from the pelvis out, than they can from the bottom up. Thinking of your core like the core of an apple me...
23 Aug 202421min
Ep. 66 How I misdiagnosed two riders, and learnt the folly of my ways from a set of toe separators!
Send us your feedback! I did the ‘boards as blades’ exercise with a young rider I know well, and discovered that it was difficult for her to get her right board to go down. Later, when the group did...
16 Aug 202417min
Ep. 65 Breakfast buffets, bananas, flying buttresses and amoebas - an unlikely set of ideas?
Send us your feedback! I contrast the story of a very unassuming rider, who has been a long term and dedicated learner within the RYWM system, with a more naturally talented rider who does not have to...
9 Aug 202420min
Ep. 64 Shoring up your structure in all dimensions - clarifying the boards from back to front, and top to bottom.
Send us your feedback! Most people are, in effect, falling off one side of the horse, whilst pushing their torso towards his midline on the other side. My most dramatic story about this concerns a G...
2 Aug 202422min
Ep. 63 Is your body a soggy distorted bundle, or can you transmit force?
Send us your feedback! The idea of ‘positive tension’ is very new in the horse world, but I am no longer the lone voice crying in the wilderness! As well as force absorption, we need force transmiss...
26 Jul 202420min
Ep. 62 Geometry - whether sacred or not
Send us your feedback! One of the biggest over-views of the work I do would be to consider it the re-discovery and re-creation of the ideal shapes our bodies would make. We can think of both human a...
19 Jul 202418min
Ep. 61 I'm back!
Send us your feedback! I'm back after a long break from podcasts! I'm sharing the stories of three riders who were all very different types of learners, using strategies that worked more or less wel...
12 Jul 202418min
