Mary Wanless - Ride With Your Mind

Ep 84. The Butterfly Muscles

Send us your feedback! Butterfly muscles, viable mental rehearsal, and a focus on the means whereby - the only way to discover the connection is to listen to this episod

Ep. 83 Stop Bracing, Start Breathing

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Ep. 82 Peeling The Layers

Send us your feedback! The surprising connection between tiramisu, snot, and your horse's back.

Ep. 81 The Magical Connection Between Rider And Horse

Send us your feedback! Explaining The Magical Connection for horse lovers everywhere.

Ep. 80 Not knowing, curiosity and sleep

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Ep. 79 Ways of knowing

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Ep. 78 How change happens

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Ep. 77 Stance, state, sense, signal, see, stop

Send us your feedback! How do you show up to sessions with your horse? And how do you manage your stance and state when you get there? Explore how to manage yourself an

Ep. 76 Does your energy flow or leak?

Send us your feedback! This picture illustrates one of the many images that this podcast refers to. Energy, a vital but abstract concept, is best illustrated through ima

Ep. 75 The contagion of (dis)regulation

Send us your feedback!  Does the regulated rider or handler regulate the disregulated horse, or does the disregulated horse disregulate the regulated rider or handler?

Ep. 74 Beyond fight, flight, or freeze

Send us your feedback! In this episode, I return to the nervous system — and to Stephen Porges’ polyvagal theory, which reshapes our old picture of fight, flight and fre

Ep. 73 Deep dive into hollow backs

Send us your feedback! Back to Rider Biomechanics! I’ll uncover the effective alternatives to growing tall. The majority of women are hollow-backed, with their front lo

Ep. 72 Mind the gap or embrace the gain?

Send us your feedback! This episode is about how our perspective shapes our experience. So often, we measure ourselves against where we wish we were, living in the “gap

Ep 71. Bringing out the best in you and your horse!

Send us your feedback! Do you want to bring out the best in you and your horse? I certainly do.  In this episode, we’re diving into what it takes to bring out the best

Ep. 70 What does it take to become a skilled rider?

Send us your feedback! I tell the story of a rider with phenomenal talent in another area of life, and ask, how did this affect her riding, and how would it be if we tau

Ep. 69 C curves, S shapes, and uneven seat bones

Send us your feedback! The rider with rebars that connect diagonally through her can use these to pattern her horse in shoulder in, suggesting to him how he could transm

Ep. 68 Reinforcing bars!

Send us your feedback! ‘Rebars’ are the dull red metal uprights you see sticking up within the frames used on building sites when pouring concrete pillars. Rebars also h

Ep. 67 Top down or bottom up?

Send us your feedback! Most riders can organize their body much better from the top down, or from the pelvis out, than they can from the bottom up.  Thinking of your co

Ep. 66 How I misdiagnosed two riders, and learnt the folly of my ways from a set of toe separators!

Send us your feedback! I did the ‘boards as blades’ exercise with a young rider I know well, and discovered that it was difficult for her to get her right board to go do

Ep. 65 Breakfast buffets, bananas, flying buttresses and amoebas - an unlikely set of ideas?

Send us your feedback! I contrast the story of a very unassuming rider, who has been a long term and dedicated learner within the RYWM system, with a more naturally tale