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April 2007
April Contents
Medenica: Making the Connection
*Can We Save Her?
Philippe Karl In North America?
*Clifford of Drummond Island
Dressage as Rehabilitation
Willing to Go Backwards
Part 3: Scared to Lengthen My Reins!
Purple Pony: Learning to Stand Up Again
*FEI Decision on Bitless Bridle
Sylvia Loch: The CRC
Letters to the Editor
Creating Tension 2
Psoas in the Horse
Rider's Leg and the Walk
Iberians: Good and Bad Stretching
Manolo: Step by Step
Making Horses Love It!
FEI Correspondence
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Wiling to Go Backwards

Being willing to go backwards

Sometimes in riding it seems that no matter how much I have learned, it’s not enough. There’s some skill I haven’t gotten right, and I need to go back and relearn it. I am learning to say to myself, “This is a good thing. I am getting the chance to deeply practice, so that I can get to greater harmony with my horse.”

Today it was longeing. I was longeing my seven year old stallion in a lesson. No rider, just me and him. He can get very contracted in his body, and not forward. This makes him cranky and distracted. I can relate to that. It doesn’t feel good. There are times when I don’t want to get up off the couch to even answer the phone, but if I am encouraged and no one takes my stuckness seriously, I actually feel better when I get up and move around.




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