Dear ODS Members:

When you see this score….RIDER (position and seat, correctness and effect of the aids) ?? x 3

Does it make you smile? Or wince?

If you wince, or just wish it were a bit better, you may like to know that….

What my students say about the work:

“When I finally felt my horse carrying herself with me just going along for the ride, it was fantastic. Riding with fluidity is key to my comfort as well as my horse’s comfort.”

“My back hasn’t hurt at all since the first lesson!”

“Working with Michele has allowed me to address issues that were preventing me from making any progress with my riding…and if you want one mare’s opinion, she would much rather have me deal with as many issues as I can off-horse, and come to her back as balanced as possible.”

Michele Morseth is a dressage rider and Feldenkrais practitioner who helps riders reach their potential through movement education. Lessons consist of an on-the-ground movement education lesson followed by in-the-saddle work with the student riding or on the lunge. Together we’ll explore your habitual movement patterns, inhibitions and tensions and I’ll help you discover your innate source of strength and balance and more effective, coordinated ways to sit on your horse. I’ll help you find support for fluid, free movement of the pelvis and the capacity to realize true independence of the hands and legs. As you build awareness you’ll learn to recognize and release tension and imbalance and recover your fluidity and balance.

Schedule:

• Portland area private lessons: June 13-15 & 27 – 29, July 11 – 13 & 25 – 27th, August 8-10 & 22-24th.
• Seattle area: By request
• Central Oregon: by appointment
• Clinics and Workshops available.

In general, students report feeling a sense of relaxation and well being and increased freedom of movement upon completion of a lesson. Your nervous system will continue to learn between lessons as you integrate your new awareness, new relationship with gravity, new way of riding with elegance and ease. As you discover a deeper awareness of your body and movement patterns your relationship to yourself and your horse may change, patterns of thought related to patterns of movement may be challenged, self-imposed limits may be questioned, and barriers to advancing your riding skills may be shattered—-you and your horse may swing into a more relaxed, potent, balanced way of moving. You might smile more!

Sit the Trot!
Michele Morseth, MA, GCFT (Guild Certified Feldenkrais Teacher)
m.morseth@att.net
17277 Kent Road, Sisters, OR 97759
541-504-0494

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