So now you have The Background. Over ten years I had had one
conception shattering experience after another. The Centered Riding work
started the process by showing me that the rider forms the horse, whether they
know it or admit it or can feel it or not.
The Linda Tellington-Jones work was the first to reveal the connection between physical
pain, emotion, and and personality and training behaviors. The Jack Meagher sports massage therapy proved what I had always suspected; that clinical soundness, or the lack thereof, might have nothing to
do with xrays or scans or what have you. And then the Mary Debono/SENSE work
showed that addressing the neurological system with work based on Feldenkrais
principles could transform the entire system.
And so with this gigantic and wonderful toolbox we worked
with Cody, and Petey, and Austen, and Shadow, and Philip, and Bonnie, and Wonder, and
Leisle. They all went from …er…challenged in some way, to sound and rideable
and quiet and happy in their work.
