Dismounted Workshop
Welcome!
Important exercises to help you explore the building blocks of skilful riding in the comfort of your home.
Sessions
Build your awareness away from your horse; benefit when you ride.
We recommend that you work through these exercises in the order that they are presented. As the exercises are progressive, it is good to take some time to practice to become competent at each before you move to the next.
Have fun with this, and give us your feedback in the comments! We’d love to see photos or links to videos of you doing the exercises.
Seatbones
Seatbones and their influence on whether you are round backed or hollow backed.
Popping Up
Finding 'just right' with your seat bones.
Pop Up Part 2
What is the shape of your sitting surface? How is it influenced by rotating your thighs in or out?
Comments
Ask questions, let us have your feedback and post photos or links to your YouTube video here!
Enjoyed re visiting seat bones and looking forward to more coming dismounted workshops.
Yes the seatbone exercise wil show you another level of subtle noticing everytime you do it.
Love it! The exercise of halving between round and hollow back gave me a good sense of how subtle out-of-neutral can be.
Yes it is so important to go to each extreme to understand the feeling of hollow and round backed. Our brain learns by contrast so by doing this you get to really understand the feeling of neutral.
Both of these so valuable! Particularly for me the popping up exercise. In a session with Mary she took me through this and I was mind blown how ‘let go’ I am naturally – stiletto heel let go particularly on my right side (which surprised surprise is where my saddle goes if I am not careful).. re-doing this exercises now, this is still the case and I find the control of my right seat bone changing from popped up to let goes harder on my right side still so I have definitely neglected this aspect. Thank you for the reminder!!
Yes such a valuable exercise which is worth doing regularly to gauge your progress in finding exactly the right amount of hold you need to get two equal seatbones