What is Holistic Riding?

Your relationship with your horse serves to highlight how you are relating to yourself and to those around you. Imagine feeling perfectly at one with yourself and your horse, at peace with everything and everyone around you. This is the gentle, yet powerful way of the Holistic Rider.

Wendy Price's Holistic Riding invites you to explore the nature of your riding and any fears or challenges you may have from a completely new perspective. Rather than focussing on just the physical issues, as most conventional tuition tends to, Holistic Riding takes in the whole picture. This means that we look at what is going on in your riding and what that could be reflecting about other areas of your life or conversely how other areas of your life could be affecting your riding! The tools for change are then offered at the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual levels.

At the physical level, the rider and horse are viewed as one partnership. The focus is then placed on how to improve that connection and relationship to achieve a sense of Oneness between the two partners. Wendy's philosophy of training is to work with the horses natural way of going and always to start with the premise and belief that the horse really wants to give its best and if it can't or won't, what is preventing it from doing so? She also applies this concept to the rider and is full of positive encouragement and feedback. Wendy firmly believes that

"What you focus on grows"

so to avoid increasing problems by only focussing on them, it is more important to put ones attention on what is going well. Success breeds success.

At the mental level, Holistic Riding is a unique way to explore and understand how our belief systems affect our experiences and riding. Riders will discover what beliefs may be limiting or no longer serving them and how to change those ideas to ones that will support them more expansively.

"What is in the brain goes down the rein!"

Riders are also offered ways to visualise more what they desire from both their riding and life. This technique also greatly assists the rider to connect more deeply with their horse.

At the emotional level of Holistic Riding, the rider is encouraged to be aware of both their own feelings and those of the horse. The horse is a highly emotional and sensitive creature and easily picks up what we are feeling. Our suppressed emotions can cause all sorts of behaviour from the horse e.g. bucking, bolting, aggression and nervousness, to name just a few.

Fears cannot be healed by logic alone. Fears are an emotion just like anger, grief, joy and love. In order to overcome any fear or blocked emotion we must first listen to and respect what it is really trying to say or do for us!

"When you can feel it, you can heal it"

Wendy's methods can greatly assist the rider to regain confidence in themselves and their riding, which also has the added bonus of feeling more self assured in their work and other relationships.

For the rider that is interested Holistic Riding offers a Spiritual level to their riding. There is only one way to truly feel safe, secure, loved and loving and that is to feel connected with our Inner Spiritual Self. Holistic Riding can assist you to plug into your unlimited source of Power and Love. It is this Energy that brings more love, peace, harmony, joy and abundance into our lives.

Understanding and using spiritual principles, riders can discover how and why they attract certain people, horses and situations into their lives. Using these tools, riders can bring themselves back into balance and harmony, which will then naturally reflect in their riding and relationships (both equine and human!!).

Encompassing more than just psychological theories and positive thinking exercises, Wendy Price's Holistic Riding is a thought provoking tool for bringing about Wholeness, Balance and Harmony of the Mind, Body and Spirit in both horse and rider.

" If you can imagine it, you can achieve it If you can dream it, you can become it Holistic Riding will show you the way."

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