http://www.amazon.de/Riding-Success-...5205890&sr=8-1

Heb dit boek gistermiddag ontvangen, ben er gisteravond in begonnen en heb moeite het weg te leggen...

Voor meer info over de auteur en haar methode: http://www.jonibentley.co.uk/nlpforhorses.htm en http://www.jonibentley.co.uk/index.html (op deze laatste site zijn veel artikelen te vinden).

Ik vind het moeilijk om het boek te omschrijven, omdat er veel verschillende onderwerpen aan bod komen - van rechtrichten tot de invloed van 'social conditioning' op onze denkwijze. Vandaar dat ik dus maar even de inhoudsopgave overtyp:

Part One

1. Early Beginnings
- Escaping form Barbarism
- Training Essentials


2. Alexander's Wisdom
- The Man and His Discovery

3. The Primary Freedom
- The Primary Control
- Exploring Your Body's Balance in the Saddle
- The Eyes

4. Does Right Feel Right?
- Acquired Crookedness
- Developing Suppleness

5. They Hypnosis of Social Conditioning
- Transactional Analysis
- Defencelessness
- Food for Thought

6. The Cost of Conformity
- Imprisoned in the Body
- Do Short Cuts Work?

7. Switch on Your Brain
- Stopping
- Learning Through Games
- A Case Study

8. Do Less, Accomplish More

9. Mind-hopping
- Observing it
- Discriminating Between Desire and Intention
- Release Stress - Experience the Present

10. Drop the 'Ideal' and Get 'Real'


Part Two

11. Journeying to the Unknown
- Knowledge and Wonder
- Being Natural
- Opinions and Judgements
- Shaking Hands with Your Mind and Emotions

12. Semi-supine: A Relaxation Technique

13. Comparing Parts
- Tension
- One-sidedness
- Seat Bones
- Riding 'Side by Side'

14. Three Seats of Instruction
- The Dressage Seat
Spice Up Your Dressage Seat with the Alexander Technique
- The Light Seat
- The Jumping Seat

15. Listening Legs

16. Building Contact
- Fear and Co-contraction
- 'From Front to Back': a Warning
- Contact: a Combination of Three Factors

17.Body Workshop: Improving Your Feel in Walk
- Exercises in Walk
- Halts and Half-halts
- Improving Riding Posture

18. Rising Trot
- Stationary Exercises
- Firming and Toning Up Your Position
- Strengthening and Testing Your New Position

19. Sitting Trot
- Preparatory Work
- Increasing Seat Control and Cadence in Trot

20. Canter
- Developing Use of the Horse's Back
- Rider'sPosition

Conclusion
Index