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  • Sisters, OR
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About Me:
I own Sit The Trot! Movement Education & Body Awareness for Equestrians. I teach clinics, workshops & classes in movement and awareness for riders, athletes and anyone interested in moving with more freedom, ease, and strength. My sister and I team up to teach Ride Without Fear: Build Confidence & Control in Mind & Body (see below). My clinics teach riders of all levels and disciplines to move in unity with their horse, get rid of stiffness and asymmetry, and help make riding more comfortable for the rider and horse. I also teach specialized workshops in Pelvic Floor Function, Core Efficiency, Hips, Knees & Ankle flexibility, and various other topics.

In Sit The Trot Lessons you will learn to:
» Sit in the middle of your horse
» Balance through your skeleton
» Use large muscles for support and stabilization
» Find postural support for quiet hands and legs
» Move with your horse
» Sense yourself accurately & move accordingly

You won’t hear unhelpful commands like:
Keep your legs/hands still! Sit tall! Heels down! Shoulders back! Sit straight! Don’t bounce!
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Ride Without Fear: Build Confidence & Control in Mind & Body
The next clinic is Sept. 12 - 15, 2009 in Sisters, OR
see http://sitthetrot.com/RideWoFear.htm
For this four-day intensive clinic, Michele of Sit The Trot! is teaming up with Dr. Wendy Morseth, a clinical psychologist who specializes in helping people overcome anxiety. You will learn how to control your physical and mental responses to your fears of riding as well as how to sit with the movement of the horse to have a more secure, harmonious seat. Fear is a natural, normal and necessary response to immediate threat and danger. Anxiety is a learned response to the perceived possibility of danger. Both fear and anxiety cause riders to lose security in the saddle and horses to react negatively.
Through a series of mental and physical exercises, including mindfulness and body awareness training, you will learn to distinguish the difference between fear, anxiety, and relaxation and to identify how your mind and body create anxiety. Each day you will practice being in control of how you experience relaxation and how you communicate your feelings through your body to your horse. In addition, you will learn specific ways to move with the horse’s motion so you are comfortable and confident in the saddle.
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Website:
http://sitthetrot.com
Do you have any pets?
3 horses, 2 cats, 1 dog, a vegetable garden, flowers & shrubs
Topics of Interest
Dressage, Eventing, Jumper, Reining, Endurance, Western Riding, General RidingAdvice, Horse Care, Training, Shows and Competitions, General Riding

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This is hilarious--it's like when you hear a foreign language with just enough of the language to hear the syllables & parts of the words --you swear you hear words with meaning but nothing makes sense. Good for the brain!
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As a Feldenkrais practitioner somehow I end up being around Aikido masters. They teach classes in rolling and falling and it's quite amazing--after hearing numerous stories about people practicing first rolling well in all sorts of combinations an...
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I get questions about going faster without bouncing--trotting, cantering, loping, galloping--and realize that novice riders are often intimidated by faster gaits, not realizing that riding the trot or canter on a calm, well-trained horse is fun an...
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Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement and occasional Functional Integration lessons, that's what keeps me moving with the motion of my horse, sitting the trot, feeling great, and doing all the barn chores. I'm biased because after realizing it wo...
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don't know, at 40 I thought I wouldn't be able to ride much, at 50 I feel terrific in spite of many injuries and arthritis and surgeries. I contribute it to Feldenkrais work, and I even became a practitioner because it saved me and got me out of d...
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Enjoy the Ride: Confidence at the Faster Gaits

I get questions about going faster without bouncing--trotting, cantering, loping, galloping--and realize that novice riders are often intimidated by faster gaits, not realizing that riding the trot or canter on a calm, well-trained horse is fun and relaxing, even exhilarating.

Part of learning to ride comes from spending time in the saddle but plenty of riders spend hours in the saddle without really learning the one simple thing that will make it enjoyable to ride: moving with the motion of th… Continue

Posted on October 1, 2009 at 4:56pm —

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Ride in the Middle of Your Horse: Developing Lateral Balance

Ride in the Middle of Your Horse: Developing Lateral Balance
By Michele Morseth, MA, GCFP
See more articles at http://SitTheTrot.com

From Pacific Northwest Endurance Riders Newsletter Spring 2009
“Ask The Experts” column:

Q: When I ride, I notice I am very asymmetrical with the way I distribute my weight, which effects my horse's balance. I've tried yoga and strengthening with some success to fix the problem, but I think now I'm just unconsciously enforcing my asymmetry, and can't
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Posted on July 31, 2009 at 6:30pm —

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Ride With a Natural Seat: You Can Too!

Ride With a Natural Seat: You Can Too! by Michele Morseth, MA, GCFP

ABSTRACT: Riders can ride for years without ever really moving in unity with the motion of their horse. However, you can learn new habits and posture so you ride in secure comfort. You are not your habits and at any age you can become fluid in your movement and more effective in your riding. What good riders have is an internal sense of balance on their horse. They get this in much of the same way a baby learnsContinue

Posted on July 27, 2009 at 7:00pm —

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Ride Without Fear: Build Confidence & Control in Mind & Body

"Even among experienced riders, fear or anxiety can seem like an insurmountable obstacle in riding or just being around horses. Your horse spooks and you get hurt, you experience pain and lose the ability to be relaxed and supple, you see someone else get thrown. All of these events can cause anxiety and excessive fearful responses. Because horses tune in to our emotional states, our anxiety can cause unwanted behavior like shying or what seems like disobedience. When we are calm and confident o… Continue

Posted on July 26, 2009 at 3:22pm — 2 Comments

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Crooked Riders = Crooked Horses: Develop Your Awareness of Balance and Symmetry

Crooked Riders = Crooked Horses: Develop Your Awareness of Balance and Symmetry
Like many young girls, I grew up carousing around my neighborhood bareback on my pony. The saddle came out for 4-H, otherwise, I stuck to her sleek back like glue. In college, I went on to work for a dressage trainer, never thinking that moving with the motion of a horse could be a problem. In my mid-20s, lured north to the arctic, I quit riding. I moved with my husband to the Brooks Range, mushed dogs, hauled… Continue

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At 7:09pm on October 1, 2009, Heather Sansom at Equifitt.com said…
Hi...are you Michele from Sit the Trot.com? If so, it's really great to see what you are doing with Centred Riding etc...I think we're on a lot of the same pages.
It might be interesting to chat further offline. I answered your questions to my blog post, with a new post. However, naturally I see so many tributaries to the question, depending on where you're coming from--

I think that with your experience with classical riding Iberian horses, you would really understand what I meant by hands that are not moving all over the place, but are yet soft.....classical dressage being a little more inclined to have you ride with very straightly stacked posture, long legs, and arms at your side yet very light hands. Light might have been a better choice of words for me to use.
Heather
At 1:54am on July 30, 2009, Annette Willson said…
Feldenkrais is fantastic for riders but takes a long time. I teach Pilates and HOW TO apply it in the saddle. It is very effective and very simple. as a physiotherapist i can see so many posture problems with riders that then get transferred to the horse. I have great success with this program and love teaching it. The theme of what you teach is the same Pity we live on opposite sides of the world my blog is horseridingposture.com.
Check my websites Applied posture Riding and Horse riding Equipment
At 10:54am on February 10, 2009, Lallanslover said…
Great blog post, really interesting reading. Thankyou for sharing...
At 6:19am on January 14, 2009, Barnmice Admin said…
Thanks, that person has been banned.
At 9:47am on January 8, 2009, Barnmice Admin said…
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