Introduction: Testing Your Dynamic Balance

This opening standing lesson helps you discover your current balance patterns. You'll explore how your pelvis and tailbone move in different directions, identifying which is your preferred stable leg and noticing where movements feel easy versus restricted. These directions of your pelvis are what you need for riding, and this quick assessment shows you where to focus your attention.

Lesson One: The Pelvic Clock

Using the image of a clock beneath your pelvis, this floor-based lesson improves your proprioception and reveals which movements you visit easily and which you avoid. If you don't hit some numbers on the clock when you're on the floor, you likely won't be hitting those numbers when you're in the saddle! This affects your ability to ride a circle equally on both reins, for instance. The lesson also develops the mobility in your hip joints, which is important for riding.

Lesson Two: Finding Your Foundation

This lesson teaches you how to organise the stability of your feet through the image of a tripod beneath each foot. You'll discover your habitual weight distribution and any bias you carry. If you have more bias to the outside of one foot and the inside of the other, you would give your horse a bias too.

By exploring how forces travel from your feet through your legs and pelvis up your spine, you'll understand the kind of lightness this gives you in your upright posture.

Lesson Three: The Tripod in Standing

This final lesson brings together everything you've learned. You'll establish your weight over your tripod while exploring circles and movements that shift your balance in all directions. This is work you can do in just a few minutes before mounting to re-establish yourself in your centre, arriving already in balance for your horse.

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