The New Anatomy of Rider Connection: Structural Balance for Rider and Horse

Paperback – September 26, 2017
232
English
1570768250
9781570768255
25 Sep
For the past 30-plus years, Mary Wanless and her bestselling Ride with Your Mind books and DVDs have helped revolutionize the art and science of riding horses. Now she takes her pioneering techniques—which combine a lifetime’s influences from the fields of psychology, biofeedback, neuro-linguistic programming, the Alexander and Feldenkrais techniques, Tai Chi, massage, dance, anatomy, sports psychology, and educational kinesiology—to a whole new level. In her newest book, Wanless teams up with Anatomy Trains® creator and author Thomas Myers to examine how the “fabric” of our bodies (fascia) can potentially allow us to generate both stability and what so many riders find elusive even after years in the saddle—“feel.” Recent research shows how the body-wide “net” of fascia that both wraps each muscle and connects your skin to your bones can be the source of postural imbalances and the resulting restrictions in your movement. Wanless posits that the difference between “average” and “elite” riders lies in the quality of connection and awareness within this fascial net, and she gives us the means to take practical and meaningful steps toward addressing such issues, resulting in extraordinary change in the way we look and feel on horseback.

Reviews (20)

O M G Find your Beginner's Mind and Start Perfect Practice

I devour books on riding. This book will give you a WOW-experience: meaning INSIGHT. Based on the latest research on 'perfect practice', how we actually develop expertise (pattern matching, staying vigilant with a beginner's mind) this is a mindblowingly useful book. If you are stuck in bad habits, routines, body-mind memories which you are not even aware of, and can't get out of. This will open up doors to give you a new start. This book is therefore uniquely great for both beginners and for experienced riders. HIGHLLY RECOMMENDED. And, as other reviewers have pointed out, watch out: Ït's worth noting that this is EXACTLY THE SAME BOOK as "Rider Biomechanics". Word for Word, chapter for chapter. One is published in the US, one in England."

The basics

Good book, if you have a knowledgeable trainer chances are you’ll already know all of this. Good for a beginner but I already knew all of this.

Detailed

I have been teaching riding for more than 40 years. This is an excellent book - just be ready for lots of detail that will require you to think outside the box. At this point, any time I can learn another tidbit, I feel like it is a win and this book definitely has expanded my thinking and horizons.

Exact same book as Rider Biomechanics

First, I love Mary Wanless's books, BUT I don't appreciate purchasing this book and finding out that it is exactly the same as Rider Biomechanics. Different name, same material. There should be a disclosure in the book description that informs consumers.

Identical books, different titles

It's worth noting that EXACTLY THE SAME BOOK as "Rider Biomechanics". Word for Word, chapter for chapter. One is published in the US, one in England. SO DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY BUYING THEM BOTH!!!!

How to help the rider be balanced

The graphics and easy to understand anatomy was helpful.

Love!!!

I love this book! Everyone involved with horses should read it!

The idea

This is a new way to think about ride a horse!

Five Stars

Very well written with a lot of truly useable information.

Five Stars

Excellent book for anyone interested in rider performance.

O M G Find your Beginner's Mind and Start Perfect Practice

I devour books on riding. This book will give you a WOW-experience: meaning INSIGHT. Based on the latest research on 'perfect practice', how we actually develop expertise (pattern matching, staying vigilant with a beginner's mind) this is a mindblowingly useful book. If you are stuck in bad habits, routines, body-mind memories which you are not even aware of, and can't get out of. This will open up doors to give you a new start. This book is therefore uniquely great for both beginners and for experienced riders. HIGHLLY RECOMMENDED. And, as other reviewers have pointed out, watch out: Ït's worth noting that this is EXACTLY THE SAME BOOK as "Rider Biomechanics". Word for Word, chapter for chapter. One is published in the US, one in England."

The basics

Good book, if you have a knowledgeable trainer chances are you’ll already know all of this. Good for a beginner but I already knew all of this.

Detailed

I have been teaching riding for more than 40 years. This is an excellent book - just be ready for lots of detail that will require you to think outside the box. At this point, any time I can learn another tidbit, I feel like it is a win and this book definitely has expanded my thinking and horizons.

Exact same book as Rider Biomechanics

First, I love Mary Wanless's books, BUT I don't appreciate purchasing this book and finding out that it is exactly the same as Rider Biomechanics. Different name, same material. There should be a disclosure in the book description that informs consumers.

Identical books, different titles

It's worth noting that EXACTLY THE SAME BOOK as "Rider Biomechanics". Word for Word, chapter for chapter. One is published in the US, one in England. SO DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY BUYING THEM BOTH!!!!

How to help the rider be balanced

The graphics and easy to understand anatomy was helpful.

Love!!!

I love this book! Everyone involved with horses should read it!

The idea

This is a new way to think about ride a horse!

Five Stars

Very well written with a lot of truly useable information.

Five Stars

Excellent book for anyone interested in rider performance.

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