I was often frustrated by the instruction to use my hands, or my legs or my seat when riding. I wanted to know HOW I was supposed to use them. I came up with the elements of an equestrian alphabet so I could reflect on how the way I used my natural aids influenced my […]
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Rider Up is good to go. Even though putting a person who has never been on a horse on a horse that has never been ridden is a guarantee that there will soon be a parting of ways, I put introducing both horses and humans to the saddle in the same volume. I decided that […]
My second horse book, The Gymnastic Circle, has been out for a few weeks now. Here is the link: I do have the next four books on starting both horse and rider on mounted work in the pipeline. However, I was reviewing Vladimir Littauer’s book Commonsense Horsemanship this spring when he stopped me […]
I have not been posting of late because I been on a slow slide downhill physically the last few months. Low levels of CO2 are how western medicine diagnoses clinical acidosis. Mine have been in the single digits for over four years now. Calcium is a major player in balancing Ph levels and my calcium […]
One solicitation for advertising I received was the offer to promote me as an animal psychic. This made me a bit nervous mind as accomplished horsemanship might look a lot like mind reading, but it is actually more along the lines of mindfulness. I am actually quite adamant that horses read bodies wondrously well, but […]
I am not sure if this link to Amazon will work, so you can also type in: Seeking Common Ground by Sara Annon Volume 2 will be online as soon as we make sure that all the computer bits and buts are working correctly. https://www.amazon.com/s?ref=series_rw_dp_labf&_encoding=UTF8&field-collection=Light+in+the+Saddle%2C+Practices+and+Principles+for+Horses+and+Humans&url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text
