

Golf posture
Which of these two golf postures is best? Hopefully it is obvious that the one on the right, where the man has a straight back as...
Trying harder
I saw an amusing cartoon of a golfer essentially digging himself deeper and deeper into a pit in his determination to hit the ball. We...

This Beautiful Horse
I found this image while browsing on the internet and just thought, wow, what a beautiful horse ! We can train camels and elephants;...

Horses for courses
About 20 years ago I took myself off to a riding stables to learn to ride. It wasn't my first experience of being on horseback - that...
Horse jumping
An image of a horse jumping out of it's skin at the beach was recently posted on Dressage Academy's Facebook page and I'm afraid I found...
Saddle up!
As we all know, horses can be rather large . Forcing them to cooperate with us would be difficult but coercing them, fortunately, has...
Scientific evidence
I've just been talking to a dear friend about the Alexander technique and the question of scientific evidence came up. This subject gets...


Why do we do it?
Why are we all so tense? Why don't we retain the poise and muscular efficiency we had in early childhood? How do we end up so collapsed...


Stooping
I've been thinking about stooping recently, and by stooping I mean bending the head and neck forwards from the shoulders. It's such a...


Feel the fear
Since first injuring my feet on a Duke of Edinburgh's Award hike in 1984 I have had to be aware of what triggers the foot pain because it...