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Riding Clinics
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Information
about hosting a Centered Riding Clinic
2008
Centered Riding Clinics
- Centered
Riding Open Jumping Clinic,
Fall
Brook Stable, Taberg, NY, March
29-30
- Centered
Riding Open Clinic,
Maple
Ridge Stable, Guilford, VT,
August 9-10
- Centered
Riding Multi-Discipline Open Clinic
4 Aces Farm, Fredericton, New Brunswick,
October 11-12
- Centered
Riding Open Clinic
November 22-23, Grahman Equestrian
Center, Glen Arm, Maryland
- Centered
Riding Open Clinic
December12-13, Chester, VT
Centered
Riding® was developed by founder
Sally Swift as a way of connecting
the mind, center and body in riding.
Use of the CR basics helps all riders
to use their bodies correctly and
more effectively. Horses respond by
becoming more responsive, better balanced
and more relaxed, allowing them to
perform with greater freedom of movement.
The techniques of Centered Riding
can be applied to any discipline,
and will improve your overall comfort,
confidence and communication with
your horse.
Heidi
Potter is 1 of 30 Level III Centered
Riding Instructors/Clinicians in the
world and 1 of 15 in the United States.
Ms. Potter has studied under Sally
Swift, the founder of Centered Riding,
as well as with several other Level
IV Centered Riding Instructors. She
credits them with much of her knowledge
and continues to learn from them on
a regular basis.
The
Centered Riding (CR)
methods are primarily based on Martial
Arts philosophies and the Alexander
Technique. The Alexander Technique
addresses a person's posture and movement
and teaches how to re-educate the
mind and body towards greater balance
and integration.
Centered
Riding serves as the foundation for
Heidi’s In Harmony With
Horses program. She states
that, “The CR basics of Soft
Eyes, Breathing, Centering, Balance
and Grounding are all essential to
keeping riders safe, relaxed, and
effective, in all they do with horses.”
Using these basics help enable horses
and humans to achieve greater harmony,
clearer communication and to work
together in a most natural way.
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"I
just wanted to let you know
that our Dressage show was successful.
I didn't have much practice
time the last few weeks so I
concentrated on keeping it simple.
We've been doing lots of transitions
with me riding more from my
center. It paid off. He won
Training level test 1 and 2
with both scores of 73%. He
felt great and got some good
marks on his transitions and
halts."
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CR Student after 3 lessons
"I
thought the clinic was great.
It really opened my eyes
to a safer, more effective way
of riding and communication
with my horse. My horse was
much happier and more comfortable
after the clinic. I got so much
out of it and
would do it again in a heartbeat!"
-Katie,
CR clinic participant
"When you can walk away
from a clinic anxious for more,
I would define that as a success!"
-Janis, cutting horse
facility owner, host, and participant,
CR Open Clinic
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