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Mary Wanless - Ride With Your Mind — 80 episodes
Ep. 80 Not knowing, curiosity and sleep
Ep. 79 Ways of knowing
Ep. 78 How change happens
Ep. 77 Stance, state, sense, signal, see, stop
Ep. 76 Does your energy flow or leak?
Ep. 75 The contagion of (dis)regulation
Ep. 74 Beyond fight, flight, or freeze
Ep. 73 Deep dive into hollow backs
Ep. 72 Mind the gap or embrace the gain?
Ep 71. Bringing out the best in you and your horse!
Ep. 70 What does it take to become a skilled rider?
Ep. 69 C curves, S shapes, and uneven seat bones
Ep. 68 Reinforcing bars!
Ep. 67 Top down or bottom up?
Ep. 66 How I misdiagnosed two riders, and learnt the folly of my ways from a set of toe separators!
Ep. 65 Breakfast buffets, bananas, flying buttresses and amoebas - an unlikely set of ideas?
Ep. 64 Shoring up your structure in all dimensions - clarifying the boards from back to front, and top to bottom.
Ep. 63 Is your body a soggy distorted bundle, or can you transmit force?
Ep. 62 Geometry - whether sacred or not
Ep. 61 I'm back!
Ep. 60 The last and final one!
Ep. 59 Back to basics - as we begin to wrap this up!
Ep. 58 - Rotation or shear? And from ‘bus’ to ‘bend’.
Ep. 57 The story of Sarah
Ep. 56 ‘One side on/one side off’ is the existential state of humans on horses…
Ep. 55 Good sides and bad sides
Ep. 54 Both boards on!
Ep.53 What do Ice skaters and clock faces show us about how to turn horses?
Ep. 52 Slingshot!
Ep. 51 - Spiralling muscles, rotating pelvises, and ‘seat feet’.
Ep. 50 - Snug thighs, stirrup leathers, and a profoundly effective stretch for your concave side.
Ep. 49 Seat bones, feet, and compass points.
Ep 48. Pulling on the inside rein…
Ep. 47 The turnings aids - a rampant example of deletion, distortion and generalisation.
Ep. 46 The shape of the horse’s neck, and the ‘footprints in the sand’.
Ep. 45 Can the hind legs of the horse push the front third up?
Ep. 44 And now that you have your black belt…
Ep. 43 - The Half Halt & Collection
Ep. 42 - The learning process
Ep. 41 The 3 thirds of the horse
Ep. 40 What the half halt isn’t.
Ep. 39 Half-halts: the riding enigma
Ep. 38 The tennis ball game.
Ep. 37 Rising Trot - The ‘gold dust’ skill
Ep. 36 Rising trot in depth.
Ep. 35 Some strategies for ‘What if’s?’, difficult emotions, and rising trot mechanism.
Ep. 34 The deep dive - let’s do it! DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS PODCAST WHILST DRIVING YOUR CAR OR OPERATING MACHINERY
Ep. 33 On mental rehearsal experiments, and how MR is best led by passion, but can become torture.
Ep. 32 On mental rehearsal experiments, and how MR is best led by passion, but can become torture.
Ep. 31 On how to get the best from your teacher, and mental rehearsal
Ep. 30 On the challenges of teaching authority, boundaries, and self belief.
Ep. 29 On stuffing, intention, and giving leg aids consciously.
Ep. 28 - On toolkits, tantrums and leg aids
Ep. 27 More on the Zero toolkit, overshadowing, and the transition from ground work to riding.
Ep. 26 On ‘the map is not the territory’
Ep. 25 - The pitfalls of buying a new horse
Ep. 24 Why do some people learn and improve much faster than others?
Ep. 23 - On risk and reward, and resilience as a rider.
Ep. 22 On the comfort zone, stretch zone, panic zone and play zone
Ep. 21 On struggle, behaviour, identity, and nerves.
Ep. 20 On the ‘wordscape’, the ‘brainscape’, and the ‘culturescape'
Ep. 19 The Wordscape and The Brainscape
Ep. 18 On the story of being told to do ‘nothing-something!’, and how to think about the relationship between simplicity and accuracy
Ep. 17 - Deconstructing the halt to walk transition
Ep. 16 So how exactly does the rider/horse interaction work?
Ep. 15 Action Goal Thinking
Ep. 14 On how you might have to give up what you think is control in order to find real control.
Ep. 13 On noticing more about your seat bones and the underneath of the torso-box.
Ep. 12 In the flow
Ep. 11 On the voice inside your head!
Ep. 10 On the thrills and spills of putting words on feelings.
Ep. 9 On how you cannot not influence, and maps.
Ep. 8 On stirrup length and posture stools
Ep. 7 On noticing mode, trying mode and tune out.
Ep. 6 On Unconscious Incompetence
Ep. 5 On finding ‘weird’…
Ep. 4 On "More!", and the question "More what?"
Ep. 3 On noseblowing, and core strength
Ep. 2 What does waterskiing have to do with riding?
Ep. 1 How it all began