The week prior to moving out of our old place we were at my instructor update clinic in Steamboat Springs, CO at Regina Wendler's barn. It was a four day clinic during which several certified Centered Riding instructors demonstrated their teaching techniques and several people attended as student riders. We did unmounted work to practice having soft hands/elbows, address balance, and loosen up our bodies before getting on the horses. We also took turns teaching the student riders each day, then in the afternoons the instructors were given lessons to improve their own riding. We also practiced doing bodywork on the students and on each other to help our bodies work more efficiently and with less effort.
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| Shoulder release |
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| discussing how a shoulder release felt |
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| shoulder release |
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| shoulder release |
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| shoulder release |
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| centering ourselves (finding and dropping our center of gravity) |
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| grounding feet |
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| grounding feet and leg position |
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| discussing the "springs" a rider has in her ankle, knee, and hip joints |
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| "breathing out the button holes" |
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| getting my feet grounded |
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| Discussing the pattern we were to ride |
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| Teaching my lesson the first day |
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| Who knows what I'm explaining?! |
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| Peggy Brown and I discussing with students how my lesson went teaching "the blender" from my jumping collection |
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| Carla Jo on Cisco |
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| Diane with her endurance horse |
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| Karen with her arabian |
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| Lu with her gaited gelding |
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| Regina with Walter |
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| Sara and Fergie are focused |
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| beautiful leg position |
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| Rain and Kim H - smiling! |
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| Michelle and Obie looking good |
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| Khreed, Joyce's arabian |
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| I rode Khreed in the riding lesson where I'm a student |
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| I rode Obie on another day |
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| I rode Rain twice |
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| Loving on Walter |
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| Some of the Bit of Honey crew waiting for the airplane to deliver our clinic supervisor |
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| This cat was really something, I forget her charismatic name but she was all over everyone and wanted to play all the time |
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| She even helped herself to breakfast from the (occupied) bird house |
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| making new friends |
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| Joyce and Khreed |
Overall it was an incredible week, with amazing views, new friends, and good ponies!
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