Horse and rider workshops; posture, breath, independant seat, training, awareness, connection and expression.

horse and rider workshops

postural alignment for the rider

Buqi for Horses: The Alignment Workshop

With Jo Osborne BHS IT, ISM, Dip Therm, ITEC Dip ESMA, Dip Buqi

This workshop is about body awareness and alignment. Using all the useful elements taken from the principles and insights about movement, flow and energy taken from T'ai Chi and Qigong, insights are applied to developing those skills for riding with increased fluidity, control and postural alignment.

You can arrange and book an 'Alignment Workshop' for yourself and friends. You will need between 4-6 people for a full workshop day or combine a half day workshop for 2-3 people and include Buqi sessions for your horses at the same time.

Postural Alignment

'Postural alignment' means 'finding balance in our posture where we can connect with the breath, relax but remain upright, find our core balance but without holding and find freedom through the joints'. This is a great preparation for ridden work where the rider can seek sensitivity, calmness, poise and posture, both on and off the horse.

"There is a very important cross over here between where the physical and the energetic meet which is invaluable for the horse and rider". Most riders have discovered this flow at some point but often don't quite know how to recreate it at will. 

I believe that we need to work on our own body for developing great posture and suppleness off the horse so that we address imbalances and tensions completely separately. When we are sitting on the horse we want to think about those things much less and dedicate those precious moments to feeling and receiving the horse and absorbing and directing movement; not using that time trying to eliminate deeply imbedded postural faults and locked up tensions.

Jo has identified the keys that will help you unlock your own posture and alignment for riding as well as dispel some common myths.

  • The relationship between alignment, posture and breath.
  • Release the neck and shoulders
  • Find core balance and stability without locking muscles
  • Release your hips
  • Discover energy flow
  • Transmission of forces through the body
  • Intention and awareness
  • The horse's alignment and engagement and yours
  • Doing all of the above on your horse!

Jo will explore a number of bodywork exercises and techniques for you to connect more efficiently and easily with your own body. We will take the postural and energetic awareness practises used in many of the eastern and esoteric systems to find alignment.

You will need: Between 4 - 6 people. An indoor area (hall, living room, etc) large enough for exercises and discussions to take place in comfort. An option to ride.

Cost: £50 per person 

Time: 10am - 4.30pm

Can combine a half-day workshop with Buqi Sessions for your horses for 2-3 people and 2-3 horses if preferred.

Call Jo on 01483 414330 or 07771 870389 or email.