Classical Dressage Position – Programing Your Riding Position!
You’d probably agree that having a balanced, centered position plays a huge role in being an effective rider. And you’d probably also agree that it seems like you’ve been picking away at your faults for years but still struggle to find an independent seat and an elegant position.
How do we know that? We know because we’ve been in the same boat and know how frustrating it can be to ride around for years with the same old position problems and crooked bodies.
So we put our heads together and developed our unique program based on two very powerful sports psychology techniques.
Those two techniques are:
1. Programming the subconscious mind
2. Anchoring
Programming The Subconscious Mind
First, you should know that one of the biggest mistakes you can make is to try to improve your position with iron-jawed determination. The reason iron-jawed determination doesn’t work is that you can only make short-term, temporary changes to your skills when you direct your effort and energy to your conscious mind through will power.
However, when you direct your efforts to your subconscious mind, the changes are permanent.
Next, you need to know a couple of things about the subconscious mind. It operates, in part, as a goal striving mechanism. It’s kind of like the genie in the bottle. It’s just waiting for your instructions. It hears and believes everything you say and visualize, sees it as the goal, and like a guided missile zeroes in on that goal.
Finally, the exciting thing about programming your subconscious mind is that it’s a lot easier to do than using will power. All you have to know is two things:
1. Vivid visualization
2. Self-talk
Program Your Position uses both visualization and self-talk to change the “software” in your mental computer. You get very vivid images as well as illustrations of those images to adjust every part of your body. You’ll start at your seat-your core-and from there, you’ll work down to your toes, up to your head, and right through your fingertips.
