Seat Expert Shows How to Adjust Rider Into Proper Riding Posture

Episode 3
In this video Erica discusses how the rider's seat is similar to a martial arts stance know as Kibadachi, or horseback riding stance. She then adjusts the rider according to the Ride With Your Mind process taught to her by Mary Wanless with the result that the rider has a neutral spine, inner thigh rotation, an engaged core and engaged lat muscles - all resulting in an improved seat.
This posture is light, stable, balanced, flexible in the joints, and very effective. Using this posture the rider can give precise cues or pressures that the horse can recognize and respond to accordingly. Since riding is a language of touch, a good seat gives the rider the ability to be a clear communicator with their horse.
Erica Poseley is a rider biomechanics expert who specializes in lunging riders to improve their seats. She is also a certified Ride With Your Mind coach. She was recently the first person in the United States to earn a Diploma of Equitation Science from Dr. Andrew Mclean’s International course on equine learning theory.
For more information on how rider biomechanics and equine learning theory can help improve your riding experience, check out Erica's website at www.gotseat.com or email her at at [e-mail].

[@annareichelt5997]

The last Section about using your lat instead of your bicep is absolute gold - no one EVER taught me to use these muscles to stop my horse. Thank you very much for this as well!

[@EricaPoseley]

So glad this information will help you communicate better with your horse.

[@kirrillythompson]

This is a great, simple explanation of creating functional stability and lightness.

[@spaziocasainterioare1656]

Thank you so so much!!!!! I discovered such an important information among all the video!! This is so magic for me!! I am mainly talking about the last part of the video! Discovering this muscle which will allow me to use it with out pulling into my horse mouse! I really do not know how to THANK YOU SO MUCH!! Such a huge and precious information!! I am trying it now and it is unbelievable how it works! Tomorrow I shall try it with my beloved four legs friend! Thank you!!!!!!

[@flowerbunny3225]

Great and well explained, to the point. Nice work!

[@EricaPoseley]

Thank You.

[@JeffAboularage]

Thank you for doing this video. I ride western “ Reining in particular” but I will put this to use immediately.

[@EricaPoseley]

I am glad you found this video helpful.

[@jewelweed6880]

My last lessons 2 years ago included frustrated words about how I wasn't holding onto the reins and don't blame it on the horse that the reins were coming out of my hands. What was shown here would have been a more helpful approach. I was holding as hard as I could to keep the reins. I wonder if that was part of the problem and they didn't notice. I can only speculate. I was too busy being verbally chewed up for not following directions to figure out how to rephrase my comment about the reins being pulled out of my hands into something that was a specific request for help and not something that sounded like I'm not willing to take responsibility for controlling my body. I swear my fingers were not passively lose letting gravity take them.

[@melancollie9597]

Brilliant ❤

[@amandafrench8047]

Ms. Poseley, can you give advice on the rider's breathing technique whilst riding; avoiding holding one's breath in the chest, breathing to quick and/or not breathing at all in combination with underlying tension in the riders buttocks in the knees in the arms ect. Many thanks for your time AND thankyou for the new video's. Cheers.

[@EricaPoseley]

Breathing is a very important aspect of riding and requires a bit of explanation. Feel free to contact me at [e-mail] and I can give you some thoughts of how to breathe correctly, and any other questions you may have.

[@kirrillythompson]

@Rohit Mapakshi use the 45 degree angle of the thigh as your guide

[@nicolerackley5336]

Your a very good teacher

[@EricaPoseley]

Thank you very much.