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Instead of doing hands-on bodywork, you can verbally guide the riders through this exercise, ensuring they are centered, and reminding them to breathe and to think about soft eyes. The following provides what you can say to your students.
Feel your hips. How much range of motion do they have?
Imagine you have a pot filled with a nicely scented, warm oil. The pot has a long, thin spout. Pour some of that oil into your hip joints. Now, do you feel more movement there?
Now, allow your awareness to go to the hip joints of your horse. How much movement is there?
Grab your oil can and put some oil into your horse's hip joints. Now, do you feel more movement there?
Then feel into your knee joints. How much movement do you have there?
Go through all joints, in the human and the horse: hip joints, knee joints, ankle, spine from the coccyx (tail bone) up to top of the neck (atlanto-occipital joint), shoulder blades, shoulder, elbow, wrist, and lastly the jaw.
Is there a difference, how does it feel now? Working like this, the riders gain more body awareness, and begin to gain better feel and
connection with their horse.n
Angelika Engberg is a Level IV Centered Riding Clinician living in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
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Alternative to Hands-On Bodywork
By Angelika Engberg