Mary Wanless - Ride With Your Mind
Mary Wanless BHSI BSc
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About This Podcast
MARY WANLESS presents crucial information on how the Ride With Your Mind approach to Rider Biomechanics can transform your learning, your riding, and possibly your life.
Out of frustration at her progression as a rider, Mary embarked on a journey to discover the 'how' of skilled riding - why couldn’t she learn to ride as skilfully as “talented” riders? Over more than 40 years she has decoded the hidden laws of rider-horse interaction and now teaches the skills that combine to create “talent”, both in person and through online courses at www.dressagetraining.tv.
In these podcasts, Mary talks about her journey to date, her key discoveries, and some pivotal moments. She illuminates her key points with metaphor and story, and, at times, presents insights derived from sports psychology.
Prepare to be entertained, to learn, to become curious, and to understand a little (or maybe a lot) more about your interaction with your horse. Check out these podcasts, and visit www.dressagetraining.tv for information about their vast library of online courses and webinars, presented by Mary and her Ride With Your Mind colleagues.
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Recent Episodes
Ep. 80 Not knowing, curiosity and sleep
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Ep. 79 Ways of knowing
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Ep. 78 How change happens
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S1E77 Ep. 77 Stance, state, sense, signal, see, stop
Send us your feedback!How do you show up to sessions with your horse? And how do you manage your stance and state when you get there?Explore how to manage yourself and your horse to establish more…
Ep. 76 Does your energy flow or leak?
Send us your feedback!This picture illustrates one of the many images that this podcast refers to. Energy, a vital but abstract concept, is best illustrated through images and metaphors. Dive into…
S1E75 Ep. 75 The contagion of (dis)regulation
Send us your feedback! Does the regulated rider or handler regulate the disregulated horse, or does the disregulated horse disregulate the regulated rider or handler?Working with horses influences…
S1E74 Ep. 74 Beyond fight, flight, or freeze
Send us your feedback!In this episode, I return to the nervous system — and to Stephen Porges’ polyvagal theory, which reshapes our old picture of fight, flight and freeze.Your autonomic nervous…
Ep. 73 Deep dive into hollow backs
Send us your feedback!Back to Rider Biomechanics! I’ll uncover the effective alternatives to growing tall.The majority of women are hollow-backed, with their front longer than their back, and the…
Ep. 72 Mind the gap or embrace the gain?
Send us your feedback!This episode is about how our perspective shapes our experience.So often, we measure ourselves against where we wish we were, living in the “gap” and feeling the distance…
S1E71 Ep 71. Bringing out the best in you and your horse!
Send us your feedback!Do you want to bring out the best in you and your horse? I certainly do. In this episode, we’re diving into what it takes to bring out the best in both of you—and how to…
S1E70 Ep. 70 What does it take to become a skilled rider?
Send us your feedback!I tell the story of a rider with phenomenal talent in another area of life, and ask, how did this affect her riding, and how would it be if we taught riding as if it were a…
S1E69 Ep. 69 C curves, S shapes, and uneven seat bones
Send us your feedback!The rider with rebars that connect diagonally through her can use these to pattern her horse in shoulder in, suggesting to him how he could transmit force through his body from…
S1E68 Ep. 68 Reinforcing bars!
Send us your feedback!‘Rebars’ are the dull red metal uprights you see sticking up within the frames used on building sites when pouring concrete pillars. Rebars also have smaller horizontal pieces…
S1E67 Ep. 67 Top down or bottom up?
Send us your feedback!Most riders can organize their body much better from the top down, or from the pelvis out, than they can from the bottom up. Thinking of your core like the core of an apple…
S1E66 Ep. 66 How I misdiagnosed two riders, and learnt the folly of my ways from a set of toe separators!
Send us your feedback!I did the ‘boards as blades’ exercise with a young rider I know well, and discovered that it was difficult for her to get her right board to go down. Later, when the group did a…
S1E65 Ep. 65 Breakfast buffets, bananas, flying buttresses and amoebas - an unlikely set of ideas?
Send us your feedback!I contrast the story of a very unassuming rider, who has been a long term and dedicated learner within the RYWM system, with a more naturally talented rider who does not have to…
S1E64 Ep. 64 Shoring up your structure in all dimensions - clarifying the boards from back to front, and top to bottom.
Send us your feedback!Most people are, in effect, falling off one side of the horse, whilst pushing their torso towards his midline on the other side. My most dramatic story about this concerns a…
S1E63 Ep. 63 Is your body a soggy distorted bundle, or can you transmit force?
Send us your feedback!The idea of ‘positive tension’ is very new in the horse world, but I am no longer the lone voice crying in the wilderness! As well as force absorption, we need force…
S1E62 Ep. 62 Geometry - whether sacred or not
Send us your feedback!One of the biggest over-views of the work I do would be to consider it the re-discovery and re-creation of the ideal shapes our bodies would make. We can think of both human and…
S1E61 Ep. 61 I'm back!
Send us your feedback!I'm back after a long break from podcasts! I'm sharing the stories of three riders who were all very different types of learners, using strategies that worked more or less well…
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Mary Wanless - Ride With Your Mind has published 80 episodes since April 2020, covering topics in Education, Fitness.
Mary Wanless - Ride With Your Mind is currently dormant with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 22m.
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