I have listened to my Feldenkrais colleague Heather Beachum talk about the seated trot for sometime now. I didn't realize until today that seated isn't a simple descriptive device. Suddenly many things came together in my understand. And why? Well I had never really experienced being seated before. This is what I wrote about the experience, before I got what 'seated' meant.
The real riding part of my riding lesson yesterday with Rebekka Rhodes was thrilling (again). I AM finding my seat in a bareback trot! Finding how to use my upper and legs and pelvis in a more controlled way - not just balance. It did come back and it got better. Rebekka didn't know, but i went and rode the little wooden rocking horse for a few minutes before starting, to find my back in riding back, and the movement of the hips.
And just like Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement (ATM), as i discover this, working intuitively and with my attention and body, I really am able to learn new things, at a new level. I wish i could figure out how to fit a second weekly lesson in. Yesterday was terribly, fabulously wonderful! Stay tuned for more revelatory Feldenkrais and horse related experiences. At some point before too long, I plan to do some specifically equestrian Awareness Through Movement classes or workshops in Reno. My ongoing schedule is still the same as it has been for over a year, and you will find it to the right, in the side bar.
