Core Skills for Dressage Riders: Suzanne DeStefano
The details matter! If you are a rider and struggle with making the changes in your position that improve how you follow your horse's movement and your communication with your horse, my Feldenkrais movement education, along with years of teaching and training will help you achieve your goals.
Episodes
15 episodes
Mind, Body, Environment
Mind, body, environment, they are inseparable. Understanding how each affects the others can help with how you interact with your horse.
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20:12
A Novel Way to Improve Your Balance
How do you improve your balance in the saddle when your horse suddenly spins around? Or stops suddenly? Standing on one foot, although helpful to improve balance, does not fully address the situation. You need to have the flexibility...
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8:21
Strategies for Quiet Hands
Sitting quietly on a moving horse is complex. The horse's movement muddles your ability to sense. Keeping track of the movement of your hands is far more challenging in the saddle. Listen in for some strategies to help stabilize your hands.
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21:51
Are You Addicted to the Struggle?
Are you working hard, frustrated, or not progressing as much as you want? If struggle and frustration are too common, there are actions you can take. Your extra effort and negative emotions can be a thing of the past. Find a more positive way o...
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17:44
Importance of Self-Use for In Hand Training
How you use yourself working in hand is important. This podcast focuses on managing your posture, aligning yourself next to your horse, and the idea that you are managing forces within yourself and your horse.
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19:58
Leg Position and Use
Create a functional leg position through understanding the connection between the alignment of the torso and legs. This is the follow up of my previous podcast on leg position. You can find it here:
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16:38
An Unexpected Way for an Ideal Leg Position
Trying to get that leg position that effortlessly drapes around your horse? The one that allows you to use your leg without turning it out or scrunching it up? Listen to hear what you need to do to achieve it!I have broken down the proc...
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11:16
Developing "Feel": Some Strategies to Build
A few brief thoughts and first steps you can take to build "feel." Feel is a skill you can improve.
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7:10
Posting Trot: Function and Ease
An overview of the posting trot using movement principles and biomechanics for ideal function to help you improve.Suzanne DeStefanowww.fi4eq.comwww.Facebook.com/fi4eq
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A Glimpse Into a Student's Journey
Listen in to a lesson I taught to help a rider improve her balance, stability, and function in the saddle. Many of the corrections were very subtle, but were felt by the rider to increase ease and security in the saddle....
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23:43
Secrets for Soft Hands
Improving the quality of your contact with soft hands comes from ideal use of your whole self. This takes dedication and commitment to improve your overall functioning, focusing on subtle movements that are almost invisible and effortless. ...
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23:39
Thoughts on Developing Your Seat
Thoughts on Improving Your SeatThe process of improving your seat helps with confidence and self-reliance. When you allow ease to be your guide, the process changes and what you focus on shifts.
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17:06
Feldenkrais for Riders
How can you use Feldenkrais strategies to improve your riding? Contact me at sdestefano1@hotmail.com to sign up for my newsletterFind me on Facebook: www.facebook.com/fi4eq
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