Body Language
In her drama school training Natalie Dormer studied the Alexander Technique: 'When you work the unnatural hours that actors work, and...
Keep your eye on the ball
In many sports you are required to make rapid mental calculations to estimate where the ball is going to land as it spins its way towards...
Tartan anyone?
In 17th century Scotland, the birthplace of modern golf, players wore clothing to battle the harsh Scottish weather, hence tartan. Where...
Trying harder
In this amusing cartoon the chap is digging himself deeper and deeper into a pit in his determination to hit the ball. We can relate to...
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 opposed...
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; dogs...
Horses for courses
About fifteen years ago I took myself off to a riding stables to learn to ride. It wasn't my first experience of being on horseback -...
Horse jumping
This image was recently posted on Dressage Academy's Facebook page and I'm afraid I find it hilarious. There's something very amusing...
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...
