Horse's Improvement

In 'Elements of Equitation (2005)', Part Two, Chapter Three: 'Correlation', there is a list

- The lifting of the rider’s head and a simultaneous upward stretching of his vertebra activates the functions of the long ligament (C2)
- The raising of the rider's chin stabilises the carrier of the horse’s neck (C3)
- The turn of the rider’s head moves the horse’s upper neck sideways (C4)
- The horse gives in its lower neck to a one-sided touch of the rider's rein (C5)
- The pressure of the rider's thumbs on the reins brings the horse to a halt (C6)
- The turn of the rider’s shoulders causes the horse’s change of direction (C7)
- The rider’s ringfingers impact the horse’s sacrum (C8)
- The closing of the rider's shoulder blades, initiated by a lifting of the sternum, raises the horse’s forehand (C7-T8)
- There is a correlation of human and equine diaphragms in T9 in regard to the horse's and the rider's lightness
- The turn in the rider’s vertebrae T10-12, which are located between lumbar region and ribs, bends the horse in the vertebrae before the rider’s seat bones (T10-12)

Each of these is a distinctly different motion in the rider. Each of these motions in the rider causes a distinctly different reaction in the horse.

This evening I tested these motions systematically, like tools, always using them according to the horse's needs and as their actions and reactions would suggest. All three horses have experienced major set backs in their lives as a rider's mount: Fallada (accident), Secret Taboo (bad rider) and Lacor (erraneous training concepts). And yet, sitting on them, feeling the effects of the original body language riding on their twisted and tortured skeletons and, in fact, in doing so verifying this body language, there was no resistance or hard feeling. On the contrary, a lot of blowing of nostrils and licking of lips. And a pleasure for me, their rider.