Mary Wanless - Ride With Your Mind
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Mary Wanless - Ride With Your Mind is a education podcast hosted by Mary Wanless BHSI BSc. It has 80 episodes, with the latest published October 2025.
MARY WANLESS presents crucial information on how the Ride With Your Mind approach to Rider Biomechanics can transform your learning, your riding, and possibly your life. Out of frustration at her progression as a rider, Mary embarked on a journey to discover the 'how' of skilled riding - why couldn’t she learn to ride as skilfully as “talented” riders? Over more than 40 years she has decoded the hidden laws of rider-horse interaction and now teaches the skills that combine to create “talent”, both in person and through online courses at www.dressagetraining.tv. In these podcasts, Mary talks about her journey to date, her key discoveries, and some pivotal moments. She illuminates her key points with metaphor and story, and, at times, presents insights derived from sports psychology. Prepare to be entertained, to learn, to become curious, and to understand a little (or maybe a lot) more about your interact
education ·en-us ·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
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