ABOUT TRAIN YOUR SEAT
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Train Your Seat combines anatomical embodiment and imagery to improve awareness, train the mind-body connection, and produce efficient movement.
With our approach, equestrians become more aware of not only their own movement, but also the movement of their horse. Consequently, the connection between horse and rider becomes more clear and precise.
The key is the use of imagery.
Why Train With Imagery?
The greatest tool that we have to use is the power of our mind. The Franklin Method systematically teaches you how to gain control of your thinking.
Your mind is always available for you to use at any moment. It is the quickest and easiest way to affect your body and movement.
Using imagery directs your attention
and creates a clear focus.
You are also effectively embodying the functional relationship between bones, joints, muscles, fascia and organs.
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When you embody something it means that you have a physical experience or insight around it.
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As you create a more anatomically correct embodiment, your movement quality will improve.
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With more coordinated movement you’ll experience improved strength, flexibility and posture naturally in your riding.
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If you are able to produce more efficient and coordinated movement, your horse will be able to do the same.
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The result of this is a rider and horse that look balanced easeful in their movement.
Alysen Starko-Bowes
Alysen is the founder of Train Your Seat Equestrian Training & Rider Biomechanics
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Alysen Starko Bowes is the founder of Train Your Seat, an embodied rider biomechanics education system used by trainers and riders around the world. With more than a decade of experience working with equestrians, she brings together kinesiology, biomechanics, psychology, imagery, and somatic education to help riders improve coordination, communication, and movement efficiency.
Alysen has presented at the World Equestrian Games, is a published author, and collaborated with the University of Gloucestershire and Hartpury University on research examining rider position. Her work has been featured in Your Horse Magazine and the World Equestrian Center Magazine. Earlier in her career she served as faculty for an imagery based movement education method following extensive training with leading experts in mind body science.
Her work began in childhood with horses, grew through her background in psychology and competitive dance, and evolved into a comprehensive methodology that recognizes the rider and horse as an integrated system. Through Train Your Seat, Alysen trains and certifies coaches in evidence based, rider centered biomechanics that support ethical communication and improved performance for both partners.
