Alexander Technique For Riders

The tension patterns you carry on horseback often mirror those you carry in your daily life—they’re part of your habitual “use,” the automatic way your muscles support balance and movement. When you “try harder,” these patterns intensify, often causing fatigue and discomfort in our bodies and creating the opposite effect of what we want. Your seat and legs tense, confusing your horse and blocking the movement you’re aiming for. As the horse gets stuck, you increase your signals, growing tighter and more rigid, which only heightens his confusion and anxiety and blocks him more. Sound familiar? It’s up to us to break this cycle. The Alexander Technique will show you how.

The Technique Can Help You:

+ Improve posture, balance, coordination and feel.

+ Develop a more balanced, centred seat

+ Help suffering from pain, injury and excessive tension

+ Sit the trot or canter without bouncing

+ Stay back if the horse pulls you forward  

+ Develop soft, feeling, invisible aids

+ Have elegant effortless riding

+ Enhance, rather than restrict, your horse’s ability to perform

+ Find the right combination of balance, strength and flexibility

+ Improve the welfare and long term soundness of your horse with correct, balanced riding

+ Cultivate a mindset of non-judgmental awareness and continuous growth.

+ Also for riding instructors wishing to improve their knowledge and understanding