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Riding Between Heaven & Earth: a moment, with Marj

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Riding Between Heaven and Earth. Equitation, Aikido, Alexander Technique. Saturday, February 9, 2008. A moment, with Marj. So what is the Alexander Technique and how do you begin to learn it? Favorite first books: Body Learning. By Michael Gelb, Body Awareness in Action. Re-published as Freedom to Change) by Frank Pierce Jones. See the sidebar link list for other resources. Has achieved the same kind of palpable connection to my thinking process. We often hear the phrase “capture the moment&#46...As a 5t...

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Riding Between Heaven & Earth: embodying a dream

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Riding Between Heaven and Earth. Equitation, Aikido, Alexander Technique. Monday, December 10, 2007. I guess that is what I am trying to do … we use the vehicle of our physical form to realize our dreams - by refining and clarifying ourselves. More than ten years ago I first read a book called The Intuitive Body. By an aikidoist named Wendy Palmer. The photo shows my Swedish friend, Annelie Andersson-Beck partaking of the awesome power of her Swedish warmblood gelding, Sober, at a Susan Harris. American ...

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Riding Between Heaven & Earth: tally ho with Balimo™

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Riding Between Heaven and Earth. Equitation, Aikido, Alexander Technique. Thursday, August 21, 2008. Tally ho with Balimo™. What a great opportunity I thought when I noticed the clinic announcement on the Equestrian Education Systems (EES) website early last spring – and it was! For the past week or so I have been digesting some of the rich experience of attending the “Seat Symposium” which was held at Gleneden Dressage in Bedford, New York and conducted by Eckart Meyners. Having now experienced Mr. ...

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Riding Between Heaven & Earth: turning inside out

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Riding Between Heaven and Earth. Equitation, Aikido, Alexander Technique. Friday, November 13, 2009. 8220;Look same outside, different inside . . .” Sugano Sensei has been known to say, as he attempts to convey to us that there is a lot more to aikido than meets the eye! Last weekend, as we once again gathered together for the annual USAF. Winter Camp sponsored by Florida Aikikai. We could not have been blessed with three more unique master teachers (shihan) than Yamada Sensei. Our three master teachers ...

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Riding Between Heaven & Earth: fascinating rhythm

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Riding Between Heaven and Earth. Equitation, Aikido, Alexander Technique. Thursday, December 31, 2009. The giant metronome in the sky – that’s how I came to think of the incessant and precisely regular sound. It would have been maddening, except for the fact that it seemed to pulse at a tempo perfectly suited to the trotting gait of the horse I was riding that evening - another lovely autumn night in the outdoor ring. I found it impossible to keep from posting the trot to the beat of the metronome. I sta...

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Riding Between Heaven & Earth: a moving stillness

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Riding Between Heaven and Earth. Equitation, Aikido, Alexander Technique. Sunday, December 6, 2009. When did I begin to pay attention to what being a “quiet” rider means? Late August, Gail Field. 8217;s annual Centered Riding Clinic out at Lord. Stable, my only written notes state: “DO NOTHING, learn to surrender to the horse. First do nothing – any tension or holding tells the horse something. Early October, ah yes, there was that particularly vivid experience at Mio Morales. So, lately when I get on a ...

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Riding Between Heaven & Earth: fitness without stress

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Riding Between Heaven and Earth. Equitation, Aikido, Alexander Technique. Thursday, February 14, 2008. My reminiscence in the last post, of lessons with Marj Barstow, re-connected me to the author of another very useful book on the Alexander Technique. Robert Rickover started visiting Lincoln and studying with Marj soon after I moved to New York – our paths have not crossed very often, but we certainly share many common colleagues and the benefit of Marj’s unique perspective. Falling). Yet doesn&#821...

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Riding Between Heaven & Earth: better living through imagery

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Riding Between Heaven and Earth. Equitation, Aikido, Alexander Technique. Tuesday, May 20, 2008. Better living through imagery. 8220;I don’t do images! 8221; I heard one student say. Wait a minute, I’m at a Centered Riding. Clinic I thought to myself. Why are they here if they don’t believe in the power of the images? Ideokinesis, from the Greek ideo (idea) and kinesis (movement), applies mental imagery to facilitate movement, improve body awareness and alignment and re-program movement patterns. 8221; (...

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Riding Between Heaven & Earth: nothing doing

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Riding Between Heaven and Earth. Equitation, Aikido, Alexander Technique. Monday, November 16, 2009. As soon as I finished telling my student that the Alexander Technique does not prescribe specific exercises, I realized that he might be very interested in something called “constructive rest.” Sometimes called an “Alexander Lie-Down” and often used by AT teachers, it came originally from the world of Ideokinesis. Turns out, my catchy title is also the name of the last book of poetry by Cid Corman. New Yo...