🌟 What is Activate Your Seat??? 🌟 Activate Your Seat is a physiotherapy designed and led online exercise programme specifically for horse riders. It targets the muscles of the seat leading to improved strength, suppleness and balance in the saddle and helps achieve a more independent seat. My name is Maeve Sheridan and I am a Chartered Physiotherapist specialising in the assessment and treatment of horses and riders. I have 20 years experience of assessing and treating riders, and almost every
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Step 2 - assess and practice pelvis movement⁣ ⁣ I’m not totally sold on the term “neutral pelvis”. As riders we want a balanced pelvis and a pelvis that can move. Yes, ideally we want to start in the neutral position but we want control through full available range of movement.⁣ ⁣ We want our pelvis and hips to move AND to absorb the movement of the horse. If your pelvis is fixed into one position, even a neutral position, you will brace against the horse, restricting his movement and your own.
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The secret to improving your posture in the saddle?⁣ ⁣ Pelvis position!! Your pelvis needs to be able to move with your horse. Then your ribcage is stacked on top in the most efficient position, allowing you to be able to breathe effectively using your diaphragm, and allowing you access to more thoracic rotation.⁣ ⁣ If your pelvis is tipped back (posteriorly rotated), that blocks your pelvis from being able to move with your horse, blocks your diaphragm from working effectively, making you use t
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Starting to work on your two point seat? ⁣ ⁣ This is a really useful on horse exercise to start - in rising trot, rise for two beats and sit (lightly!) for one. ⁣ ⁣ Tips to help you get started:⁣ ⁣ 💫 Hold on to your neck strap or the front of your saddle for balance⁣ ⁣ 💫 Start with small bursts (30 seconds) and build up slowly⁣ ⁣ 💫 Have your stirrups jumping height and the ball of your foot straight across the stirrup tread to help your balance⁣ ⁣ 💫 Start in the arena or somewhere you feel s
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⁣👣 Small steps for big changes⁣ ⁣ 🌟 Number 1 - Effective Breathing⁣ ⁣ 🤷‍♀️ Sounds simple, yes? But 90% of riders that I assess for the first time aren’t breathing properly.⁣ ⁣ 🌬 Ideally what should happen is that as we take a breath in, our diaphragm contracts to allow the lungs to fill with air and our belly pushes outward. As we breath out, our diaphragm relaxes and the air leaves our lungs and our stomach flattens. We are born using our diaphragm easily to breathe, just watch a baby and h
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These are four fundamental movement patterns that I believe all riders should train:⁣ ⁣ ✅ Hip hinge - your ability to initiate the movement from the hips, rather than upper body, back or knees. This improves your balance and recovery over a fence, your lower leg stability, your rising trot mechanics, your ability to follow and absorb your horse’s movement.⁣ ⁣ ✅ Lateral control - your ability to move and control the side to side movement of your pelvis. This improves your symmetry in the saddle,
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