Body Instrument Method (BIM)
What you'll learn
- Modern Movement Science
- Body Conditioning
- Movement Training
- Mobility and Stretching
- Strength Training
- Coordination Training
- Proprioception training
- Body awareness
- Injury preventative conditioning
- horsemanship
- emotional intelligence
Requirements
- No previous experience required
- Everything is taught start to finish in the course
Description
Body Instrument Method is a Body Conditioning and Movement Training Program
Using modern movement science as our guide, rather than conventional, disproved biomechanics models, we will explore your movement in an equestrian context to help you develop the following
- Improved coordination
- Improved Balance Recovery
- Improve off-balance stabilisation
- Reduce Injury risk, both chronic and acute
- Increase your mobility and range of motion
- Add more nuance to your personal body memory, and movement toolkit
- Improve efficiency for strength requiring movements
- Increase physical adaptability
- Explore movement variability
- Increase your riding potential
- Increase your ability to adapt to any horse, any saddle, any movement your horse makes with greater confidence
You do not have to trap your body inside of correct only postures, positions and movements to become an excellent horse rider.
In BIM we go much further beyond just riding as the equestrian life is MOVEMENT RICH and we will explore groundwork, and even daily chores and everyday movements as important and valuable parts of your movement tool kit.
Modern Movement Science gives us a new understanding as why so many discipline specific horses lack fundamental soundness, adaptability and confidence in their work and often so do their riders. By focusing on adaptability and variability you increase your movement potential as a generalist, rather than a specialist, so that you can enjoy more choice with your horses.
But because Body Instrument Method is a course from Emotional Horsemanship, we also explore the intrinsic connection between movement and emotion. Using the 7 Simple Movements as our connectors to the Panksepp 7 Primary Emotional Systems, we explore and expand our FEEL both physically and emotionally... because you cannot work physically without working emotionally too... unless you want to be a shut down, mechanical living bio-machine.
BIOMECHANICS or the training of BIOMACHINES is not what this course is offering. This is real movement training for LIVING FEELING HUMAN BEINGS.
This first offering of BIM does not teach your exercises for your horse... but it teaches exercises FOR YOU so that you can be better for your horse. Later versions of BIM will offer horse specific training.
Who this course is for:
- For deeply caring horse owners who wish to try a variety of different activities with there horses and enjoy choice with their horses, become more in-tune with their body, improve their movement skills and become a total nerd about modern movement science!
Instructor
- 4.8 Instructor Rating
- 777 Reviews
- 1,639 Students
- 7 Courses
I am a horse trainer, equestrian performance coach, international clinician and hoof care provider living in Spain.
I am Australian by birth, and spent all my adult life in Europe. My previous career as a professional dancer gave me a powerful empathetic insight into the lives that many horses live as;
-Creatures of movement
-Without a voice
-Forced to perform under stress, duress and pain
-The importance of movement expression
-The connection between movement and emotion
-How important our feet are to our physiological and emotional well being
My professional certification in Horse Training, Rider Instruction, Groundwork and Hoofcare was in Poland at a unique school that always placed the horse first.
Since then my research and professional experiences has continued to expand my repertoire of training practises and theoretical principals.
Emotional Horsemanship online course is a introduction into this approach.
Barefoot Basics is my foundation for Hoofcare for Horse Owners
When to Reward, For What? Is a short course on Reinforcement Schedules and Food Rewards in Training.
Body Instrument Method Is Movement and Body Conditioning for Equestrians according to Modern Movement Science