Once you learn to locate and control small muscle groups in your body, you will immediately be able to create a much more effective position for more correct “mechanics” in the saddle. Carmi’s teaching, based on pioneering work by Mary Wanless*, makes effective riding accessible to all. Does your lower leg swing, despite your best effort to hold it still? Perhaps you need to look at it this way: your legs don’t need to be “still”, but they need to match the movements of the horse so that, to an onlooker, they appear to be still. This, and many other gems of wisdom like it, are what’s offered.

Here are articles and resources to let you expand your understanding of rider biomechanics, and what it means to ride with feeling.

*Note that Carmi is not presently a certified RWYM Coach in the Mary Wanless system.