Articles from Author Michele Morseth

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March 26, 2010
Review: Riding With Chi: Your Pathway to Energy Mastery
Michele Morseth

In my line of work we have a light bulb joke that says something about the way we perceive our work: “How many Feldenkrais practitioners does it take to screw in a light bulb? None. We don’t do energy work.”

This does not mean however that the riders I work with don’t...

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February 19, 2010
The Weight & Seat Aids, Your Kinesthetic Sense and Horse Performance, Part 3 of 3
Michele Morseth

Being one-sided is a natural human pattern of movement that affects our horse’s balance when it causes the rider to sit with more weight on one seat bone or collapse to one side. It makes the horse fall out to the side, stiffen on one side, and more difficult to turn on one...

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February 5, 2010
The Weight & Seat Aids, Your Kinesthetic Sense and Horse Performance, Part 2 of 3
Michele Morseth

Part 2: Develop Your Kinesthetic Sense

Last week I talked about the importance of the rider’s sense of position and weight in the saddle and how a keen kinesthetic sense, allowing you to use your weight accurately, enhances the horse’s performance. If you experimented...

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February 2, 2010
Maintain Your Horse's (and your Own) Fitness as Winter Turns to Spring
Michele Morseth

During winter, you and your horse may not be getting the conditioning you are used to. The weather gets bad and you cannot get to the barn, it gets colder and the arena freezes or gets too muddy to ride.

Winter, for many of us, forces us to decrease the intensity,...

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January 29, 2010
The Weight & Seat Aids, Your Kinesthetic Sense and Horse Performance, Part 1 of 3
Michele Morseth

Part 1 of 3

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