Mary Wanless - Ride With Your Mind
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Mary Wanless - Ride With Your Mind
MARY WANLESS presents crucial information on how the Ride With Your Mind approach to Rider Biomechanics can transform your learning, your riding, and possibly your life. Out of frustration at her progression as a rider, Mary embarked on a journey to discover the 'how' of skilled riding - why c...
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Ep. 77 Stance, state, sense, signal, see, stop
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How do you show up to sessions with your horse? And how do you manage your stance and state when you get there?
Exp...
Ep. 76 Does your energy flow or leak?
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This picture illustrates one of the many images that this podcast refers to. Energy, a vital but abstract concept, is bes...
Ep. 75 The contagion of (dis)regulation
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Does the regulated rider or handler regulate the disregulated horse, or does the disregulated horse disregulate the regu...
Ep. 74 Beyond fight, flight, or freeze
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In this episode, I return to the nervous system — and to Stephen Porges’ polyvagal theory, which reshapes our old picture...
Ep. 73 Deep dive into hollow backs
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Back to Rider Biomechanics! I’ll uncover the effective alternatives to growing tall.
The majority of women a...
Ep. 72 Mind the gap or embrace the gain?
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This episode is about how our perspective shapes our experience.
So often, we measure ourselves against where we wi...
Ep 71. Bringing out the best in you and your horse!
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Do you want to bring out the best in you and your horse? I certainly do.
In this episode, we’re diving into what i...
Ep. 70 What does it take to become a skilled rider?
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I tell the story of a rider with phenomenal talent in another area of life, and ask, how did this affect her riding, and...
Ep. 69 C curves, S shapes, and uneven seat bones
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The rider with rebars that connect diagonally through her can use these to pattern her horse in shoulder in, suggesting t...
Ep. 68 Reinforcing bars!
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‘Rebars’ are the dull red metal uprights you see sticking up within the frames used on building sites when pouring concre...
Ep. 67 Top down or bottom up?
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Most riders can organize their body much better from the top down, or from the pelvis out, than they can from the bottom...
Ep. 66 How I misdiagnosed two riders, and learnt the folly of my ways from a set of toe separators!
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I did the ‘boards as blades’ exercise with a young rider I know well, and discovered that it was difficult for her to get...
Ep. 65 Breakfast buffets, bananas, flying buttresses and amoebas - an unlikely set of ideas?
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I contrast the story of a very unassuming rider, who has been a long term and dedicated learner within the RYWM system, w...
Ep. 64 Shoring up your structure in all dimensions - clarifying the boards from back to front, and top to bottom.
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Most people are, in effect, falling off one side of the horse, whilst pushing their torso towards his midline on the othe...
Ep. 63 Is your body a soggy distorted bundle, or can you transmit force?
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The idea of ‘positive tension’ is very new in the horse world, but I am no longer the lone voice crying in the wilderness...
Ep. 62 Geometry - whether sacred or not
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One of the biggest over-views of the work I do would be to consider it the re-discovery and re-creation of the ideal shap...
Ep. 61 I'm back!
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I'm back after a long break from podcasts!
I'm sharing the stories of three riders who were all very differ...
Ep. 60 The last and final one!
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We do two more exercises, as I encourage you to realise the immense value of the off-horse exercises that are part of my...
Ep. 59 Back to basics - as we begin to wrap this up!
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I was right all of those years ago when I thought there was something my teachers weren’t telling me! But this is innate...
Ep. 58 - Rotation or shear? And from ‘bus’ to ‘bend’.
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We have talked about asymmetry patterns being rotational, but it can be more helpful - and with some riders more accurate...
Ep. 57 The story of Sarah
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One of my pupils broke her upper arm in a fall, and damaged her wrist and elbow. After surgery and recuperation she retur...
Ep. 56 ‘One side on/one side off’ is the existential state of humans on horses…
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Many riders spend their life stuck in ‘one side on/one side off’. Others ‘ping-pong’ between right on/left off and left o...
Ep. 55 Good sides and bad sides
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Most people have a strength differential between their two boards, and don’t address this well - so as the weaker one bec...
Ep. 54 Both boards on!
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I love the analogy of ‘both boards on’ being like two people both fighting to sit on the same bar stool, but neither one...
Ep.53 What do Ice skaters and clock faces show us about how to turn horses?
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On a circle, an ice skater pushes off one foot and glides on the other as her body makes a dancer’s arabesque. She faces...
Ep. 51 - Spiralling muscles, rotating pelvises, and ‘seat feet’.
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Hopefully the stretch from last time leaves you feeling that you can fill out your concave side and rotate it forward, ma...
Ep. 50 - Snug thighs, stirrup leathers, and a profoundly effective stretch for your concave side.
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It is a challenge to create an equally snug and symmetrical ‘A frame’ with your thighs, and it’s important to ride with y...
Ep. 49 Seat bones, feet, and compass points.
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Some experiments with seat bones - how they do and don’t move - helps to get the clarity about your underneath that then...
Ep 48. Pulling on the inside rein…
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Riders pull on the inside rein again and again, even though they know they shouldn’t, and often they feel helpless about...
Ep. 47 The turnings aids - a rampant example of deletion, distortion and generalisation.
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Whilst some people seem to be blissfully ignorant of the difference between riding in each direction, others are tortured...
Ep. 46 The shape of the horse’s neck, and the ‘footprints in the sand’.
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Some horses have long flat necks, some have much sorter and more upright (lama) necks, but in all horses the neck vertebr...
Ep. 45 Can the hind legs of the horse push the front third up?
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‘Kick the front of the horse up’ is a traditional idea that I have rarely seen work well in practice. Following the work...
Ep. 44 And now that you have your black belt…
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I recently enjoyed working with a small woman who was a relatively inexperienced rider with a black belt in karate. The p...
Ep. 42 - The learning process
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The learning process, which progressively builds a pyramid out of lots of (initially) disconnected body parts and correct...
Ep. 41 The 3 thirds of the horse
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The biomechanics term ‘hydraulic amplification’ describes how the muscles get ‘pumped up’ in collection. WE want a half-h...