Dave Ritchie(Central Connectcut Tai Chi Chuan):“Riding with Chi”
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Tai Chi for Equestrians: Riding with Chi
Three experts have come together to bring you this unique program:Patricia Norcia is a dressage trainer in Connecticut. She was introduced to Tai Chi as a student at the Yale School of Drama and has taught breathing classes at major universities.US- and Asian-trained David Ritchie operates his own school for Tai Chi and Qi Gong instruction in Connecticut. Over the past several years, he has worked with equestrians to develop the specific exercise routines featured in Riding with Chi.Mark Russell, author of Lessons in Lightness: The Art of Educating the Horse, owns a training facility in Tennessee and conducts riding clinics across the US. He has promoted Tai Chi for equestrians throughout his career as a trainer.EXPERTS AGREE — THE BEST WAY TO IMPROVE YOUR RIDING IS TO IMPROVE YOUR “SELF.”
Riding with Chi
Your Pathway to Energy Mastery
A unique guide to discovering and mastering energy flow, or chi, for riders of all abilities and disciplines.
The Chinese character chi represents the life-process or energy flow that sustains all living things. In Chinese culture, the practice of Tai Chi and Qi Gong (chee kung) eveolved, in part, as a way of enhancing the flow of chi within the human body.
In Riding with Chi, the elements of efficient energy flow–low breathing, relaxation, spine alignment, and balance–are discussed and demonstrated in terms of these exercises and their application to the rider’s position (Disc 1). Disc 2 teaches several short, easy-to-follow Tai Chi-style and Qi Gong routines. You will learn to relieve, facial tension, lower and increase your breath, relax and supple your body, and achieve a stable and balanced position while in motion, as on a horse. Once you learn to feel energy flow within your own body, you will feel it within your horse as well, opening a pathway for extraordinary communication between forse and rider.
Over time, energy mastery will bring grace and sophistication to your riding position as it becomes apparent how a fusion between relaxation and energy flow forms the foundation for balance in motion–for both horse and rider.
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