The painless, mindful path to improve balance, suppleness, and coordination.
In this 3-Day Intensive, you will discover key to rediscovering your body’s innate abilities for balance, stability, suppleness, flexibility, coordination, and body awareness.
The Free 3-Day Challenge
October 22-24, 2024
This is an entirely FREE 3-Day Challenge produced by Feldenkrais Practitioner, Catherine McCrum, in collaboration with Thomas and Shana Ritter of Ritter Dressage. Come experience first-hand what Feldenkrais lessons can do for you and your riding!
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"Make the impossible possible, the possible easy and the easy elegant."
Moshe Feldenkrais
Do you dream of riding in effortless harmony with your horse?
Do you frustrate yourself by slipping into bad postural habits in the saddle?
Or find that you are held back by stiffness and injuries?
But what if you too could develop the balance, posture and movement skills of the riders you admire?
It sounds outlandish right?!?
Except, it's how you work.
How we all work.
Inherent in every human is a life-long capacity for improvement through learning.
We are not talking about the kind of 'learning' many of us have experienced in lessons, where an external expert is constantly correcting your 'faults'. This type of 'learning' is noisy. It disrupts your ability to feel for yourself. Furthermore, the endless corrections often create feelings of anxiety and self-doubt. And ironically, feeling inadequate invariably results in the very muscular tension that gets in the way of us riding with ease.
How can you learn differently?
Learning the Feldenfit way is easy, relaxed, and fresh.
In Feldenfit lessons, you will reawaken your physical curiosity and pleasure in moving well.
Cultivate your awareness and feel.
Learn to judge for yourself the quality of your balance in relationship to your horse’s balance.
Carefully designed exercises will leave you feeling centred, grounded and aligned with your horse.
It's time to say goodbye to forced corrections, futile hard work, and ineffective efforts.
Get back in touch with your natural capacity to improve, using movement experiments which will help you to tune into yourself and refine your position and aids.
Wake up your innate potential to be a great rider,
Become the rider your horse is waiting for!
We want you to be able to experience this for yourself, so we put together a FREE Challenge where you can try out some Feldenkrais-based lessons created specifically for riders.
WHAT IS THIS?
Free 3 Day Online Challenge for Riders
This is a FREE Online Challenge designed for riders who are interested in learning about how Feldenkrais can help them ride with more stability, suppleness, and ease.
WHEN IS THIS?
October 22-24, 2024
The main portion of this Free Challenge is 3 Days from October 22 through October 24, 2024. Each training is live at 6:00pm GMT+1 (Lisbon/London timezone).
WHERE IS IT?
All Online. All Free.
Really! Each day's live trainings are held on Zoom and YouTube. We will give full instructions and links inside! There is a Facebook Group for discussion throughout the challenge. And we have a support team that can help you if you get lost or have any trouble along the way!
THE CHALLENGE SCHEDULE
➡ DAY 1: Tuesday, October 22, 2024 - Balance and Stability - LIVE at 6:00pm GMT+1 (Lisbon/London)
➡ DAY 2: Wednesday, October 23, 2024 - Suppleness and Flexibility - LIVE at 6:00pm GMT+1 (Lisbon/London)
➡ DAY 3: Thursday, October 24, 2024 - Coordination and Body Awareness - LIVE at 6:00pm GMT+1 (Lisbon/London)
HOW TO CONVERT THE TIME TO YOUR TIMEZONE
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Catherine McCrum is an accredited Feldenkrais practitioner and has been teaching sport, fitness and movement since 1986 as first a ski instructor/coach and then as a Personal Trainer. In 2002 she finished her Feldenkrais training. She is also a rider and created this Challenge to help you learn how to recognize how the way you use your body can be interfering with your ability to progress in your riding. She is also a Gestalt psychotherapist with a particular interest in working with developing awareness of how her clients embody their emotional and psychological patterns. Catherine participates as an Assistant Teacher in our Artistic Dressage Online Courses Program and has created the FeldenFit series for Riders.
Based in Sweden, Charlotte is an accredited Feldenkrais practioner and riding instructor. She is also a hypnotherapist, a reflex integration therapist and a mindfulness instructor. Charlotte is the author of the book ”FeldenRide: Feldenkrais for Riders”. She will be assisting Catherine McCrum on the challenge and also teaches in the other Feldenkrais courses and Feldenkrais based lessons on Ritter Dressage.
