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These Yoga Poses Will Make You a Better Rider
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ส.ค. 2024
- I used to have pain and stiffness after riding - in this video are three exercises that helped me.
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the horse is so cute, it's distracting. :-) That nose! sooo cute.
Thank you for this video Callie ❤️ I'm an older rider, have ridden most of my life. Several years ago I developed osteoarthritis in both hips. Made it painful to ride (and other things too). It got so bad that I couldn't sit on my horse without terrible pain. My hip/iliopsoas and the whole pelvic region had became very tight & shortened. Finally I had both hips totally replaced and it took about a year to rehab. But!!! I can ride pain free now. However!!! It's a daily practice to work at range of motion, stretching my muscles and ligaments. Ongoing. I started doing yoga as soon as I was able during my physical therapy. I joined a wonderful online yoga/exercise program specifically for equestrians and it has changed my life, not just my riding life. I never thought I'd have rom again in my pelvis but I do. I have to work at it tho. I've signed up for your yoga class and I feel that I can always learn more and be better. I'm grateful you're offering the class. I'm very glad that nowadays there is a sharper focus on the importance of the riders body as it relates to success in the saddle and better communication with our equine partners.
So glad to hear of your improvement! Can you share the equestrian specific yoga programme you do? Thank you!
Me: learning lots of things on how to become a better rider
Also me: WHOA LOOK AT THOSE STIRRUPS
SuperJesusFreak96 haha same I was just staring at them like ‘woah’ completely zoning out about what she was saying
are they just safety stirrups without the rubber band?
After not riding for several years and being a senior now, I was surprised when i had difficulty getting my leg high enough to clear the cantle of a western saddle. Time for some stretches!
I love Yoga w Kassandra ❤️ she also got in to riding last yr & now has her own horse - hoping she releases some more equestrian focused classes 🤞
I have a metal rod in my back from scoliosis surgery. I’ve had chronic pain for 12 years. I was diagnosed with MS in 2017, which has exacerbated my back pain. I’ve had to give up skiing, hiking, and some basic household chores that require repetitive bending and twisting. My balance is now an issue having MS. I just turned 51, and finally got my first horse 2.5 years ago. I haven’t ridden on any consistent basis for over 20 years. Some say I’m crazy to want to ride. While this could be true, I can confidently say, my horses provide emotional and mental therapy. They help me relax regardless of how bad of a day I’m having. I will be riding regularly this Spring regardless. I watch and save your videos and would love any advice on how you would proceed if you were me. I’m trying to find someone close who can help me. We live in a very small rural area with the closest trainer an hour away. A 30 day training course at his barn is 900 dollars. I’m on disability and only my husband is working. Thank you for all the videos you post. They actually help me a lot. Just wondering if you might have specific tips for someone with my issues. Thank you..
I am almost 75, so I have a range of pain daily from the various sports I have participated in. I find some of the yoga positions are just not doable due to arthritis in my hands and wrists, problems with my knees, a torn tendon in my right shoulder, etc., etc. A few years ago I started practicing Soma therapy which is combination of therapeutic yoga, Hanna Somatics and Hatha yoga. It is very slow (which helps me slow down - which is NOT easy), and the idea is to train your brain to release those muscles that have become habitually tight due to trauma. It has helped amazingly and I practice it every night. There are some yoga positions I can still do and your video reminded me of a couple that I can definitely include in my daily practice.
I have broken my right leg three times over the years, the last break (2012) was just below the knee.
I have had 3 different horses flip over backwards onto me, which has caused some injury to my right hip that has come back to haunt me.
I also has acute Polymyositis many years ago, which has left a muscle or two in my right leg permanently paralysed.
At the moment, my physio is riding my horse.
Thank you for sharing these three stretches/yoga poses; they will come in handy.
I have bad shoulder mobility and that brings some challenges to my riding. I have been doing Crossfit for 2 years now and its really helped my riding a lot. I'm lucky to have found a crossfit coach that used to be a rider herself so she understands what exercises are most important for my riding. We actually do a lot of down dog at crossfit. Sometimes we do down dog to a push up.
Adoro le tue lezioni! Grazie! Greetings from Italy.
I started Yoga 2 years ago and I realized how it helps me improving my riding. That's great.
My stiff hip joints make it difficult to keep my balance on the horse and open the hip in order to stabilize my lower legs. I would like to make my hip joints more flexible and move them independently from my upper body.
I have neck pain and stretching helps to improve my posture and lessens the pain. I make sure when I am on the computer that I am not slouching. Also have diastasis recti from my child birth, working to close in the gap to have a stronger core. Now your suggestion of yoga will now be added to the list! Thanks again
Love the fitness vids you are doing. It’s what this year is all about for me. Thankyou
Most of the time it's my hips, and my knees
This is very helpful, i was getting good on a horse who is now retired and i basically had to start from square one on a different horse so this is helpful thanks callie!!
Thanks so much! That's very helpful! For me it's the lower back, hip on the left, one side more than the other. I am doing yoga and it helps a lot! Thanks for pointing out those poses and what they do for us!
Thank you for sharing!
I do daily yoga..but still struggle with gripping and unsteady lower leg!
My hips are pretty tight and doing hip openers are very helpful!
Thank you for advocating for off horse fitness. So many riders don't do this. I have been riding for 8 years, started at 51. I started yoga 6 years ago and it helped with my stiff hips. I learned about the psoas muscle 2 years ago and learned how to use it which really helped with lower back soreness. Then a year ago I started a comprehensive exercise program for riders including yoga, core strength and fitness called dressage rider training and that made such a gigantic improvement in my riding that I am still amazed every time I get on. That along with good training from my instructor keeps my 21 year old horse sound. The rides we have now are just amazing!
My neck, lower back. Hip dysplacia. And an old right ankle injury. I will definately do yoga . Thanks Callie. Xx
I too am involved in distance fitness (mountain running/hiking) but an injury last summer really slowed me down. I'm noticing stiffness in my entire body as I get older. I think this will be a wonderful course.
I actually started riding cause my bad leg had lost a lot of mobility and muscle mass. Learning to post and ride in general has taken me light years ahead of where I was. I also have back issues though riding for some reason really helps it
This was very helpful thank you!! I am a retired racehorse jockey!!! I am working now with Equine Therapy Horses!! Just for myself, this is great then you again!! I have broken my left leg and ankle recently and it took almost 6 months before I could ride again I signed up for your free Classes Looking forward to doing more Yoga and feeling my best on and off the horses I ride!! This will help me and so many others I have several injuries from riding races and these stretches are key I agree!!
How many horses do you own?
I am an ice dancer and have studied ballet for years. All this training has tremendously helped my posture in the saddle. My trainer tells his other students to watch how well balanced I am. He does, however, get very picky on my leg placement at times! Enjoyed your video!
Yoga is a great activity to be done in tandem with riding!
Favorite pre-riding exercise - stretches from side to side, keeping my torso straight and just stretching hips and knees from side to side. On horse exercise - circling arms and crossing arms over neck of horse to touch toes on opposite side.
Really looking forward to hearing more about the course. Very few riders and instructors seem to give attention to exercises that you can do off the horse and at home. If only there were gyms with equicizers available. That would also be hugely helpful.
Loved the video. Thank you A daily yoga practice keeps me feeling great all day and makes my time in the saddle more fluid. I'm going to check our yoga for riders right now :-) cheers!
Thank you for this. I love the yoga practice and happy to see the benefits for riding. I have a very tight l achilles and weakness on my lower left. I see my stop pictures and I am always compensating. I want to get stronger and sit straight in my stops.( I compete in Reining)
Great video:)
my biggest struggle in my riding is symmetry. My right is much stronger than my left. I have been doing some workouts to improve my symmetry and have noticed an improvement. I’m excited to try doing the poses you shared:D
Thank you, Callie!!! Love your videos. I love yoga and swear by it. Been practicing for about 20 years and teaching for 15. So excited to see you sharing it with riders.
Thank you Callie! I love your videos. I am in my mid-sixties, and I have that upper tight chest that you refer to in your video, and I also get very stiff in the knees when riding. I find myself unbalanced in the saddle and constantly losing the same stirrup. I have PT kinda on a regular basis, but I think that yoga and stretching are a great idea to add to my schedule! Thank you for this!
Thanks for this vid. I have pain in my hips and lower back, and have started back at yoga (i've not done it for a while) and hope this will help me to ride pain free. xx
Hello Callie, thank you for another great video. I have a pinched nerve in my lower back (L3-L4) from a sports accident 5 years ago and comes with it, cronic inflammation. I have mostly gotten used to the pain and occasional sessions with the physio helps. I have renounced a back operation as I am afraid I will never be able to ride again, so its something I put up with and I am happy in that decision. I was really interested to see that you use Yoga to help supple up and have subscribed to Yoga for Riders. The postures you mention (downward dog, rag doll...) help to open up the hips and supple the lower back and pelvis area a lot and I am hopeful that working on my posture will help me and also my horse, who is very tolerant and patient when I get it wrong.
Thank you for the video Callie. This is just what I need! I'm older, totally unfit, sit at a computer all day and I am afraid to ride. My lower back is where I get very tense - probably caused by fear!
My hips are SO tight! Ive always struggled with hip/groin problems, but yoga has helped so much!
Have been practicng yoga on a daily basis since August. Love it! Working on a super strong core!
Hi going to try some off the yoga tips as I get stiff calf muscles and hip ache after I have been out for a hack.
So great you are offering these. Hope I can catch one this late in the running.
Love Love your Videos.
I definitely tend to hunch forward, thank you so much for this video! I have some old injuries from just having babies that still affect the way I sit in my saddle today. Very important to know your body and is easier for the horse if you can put the work in out of the saddle to try and work on your sore zones. Love your videos thank you!
Thank you so much, I have trouble keeping my shoulders from collapsing and this really helped.😊
I am going to try these yoga movements. Thank you
My problem areas are shoulders and elbows. Think it’s all from going to the gym and weightlifting. I practice yoga regularly and lately I started warming up before my rides using some mobility drills and also core exercises. It makes a world of difference
My left shoulder is my problem area...totally due to my desk job, but definitely affected my riding posture! I have found that if I stick to a yoga or PiYo routine, it massively improves!
Catching fatigue before we start sitting cricket causing either sciatica, shoulder and or neck pain, can get so bad the fascia in the head can tighten making eyebrow lifting hard to do. So is there routines to break long posture holds so that fatigue does not get the best of us? Great video, actually watching to see how I could get back into riding.Blessings to the journey and good health for all
this is a very important step: body control and body awareness. I practice pilates & yoga as well as fitness. core training for riders helps to build muscles, earn more flexibiliy for tendons. Thanks to Pilates I could align my body and control it in a precise way, inner connections were built, really important is to know how your body works: you need to build up your muscles, all of them, especiallynthe little ones a long your spine.
But you should start doing these exercises with some instructor. There are a couple of basic rules to avoid injuries as well. My very problem are my feet and toes. I have to work on their flexibility and tonification.
I had a bad fall where I chipped my T4 vertebra. I still have days where my back hurts, especially into the hips. My chiro treats both me and my horse as usually if one of us is slightly off, the other is as well. I also get the shockwave therapy as that does wonders and really hits the spot. Fully agree on being active outside the saddle. I am not the fittest of people but I try to do cardio/pilates in the morning as I ride in the afternoons. I also do pole dancing twice a week as that has helped with core and really focusing on a strong back with flexible hips
Thank you Callie, great video! I just recently started Pilates, I feel it has really helped me. I also love Yoga.
Insightful video, thanks Callie! A lot of these are issues I'm looking to mitigate, like letting my weight go cleanly into my heel and rounding my back too much over jumps. I just signed up for the Yoga for Riders class :)
A permanently dislocated shoulder really limits my mobility and symmetry, but I’ve found stretching consistently with a combination of yoga poses has helped increase flexibility and strength. I’m looking forward to trying yoga for the whole body!
Just try the Surya Namaskar poses of Yoga that incorporate all the movements you've recommended ...
My back rounds forward which pushes out my stomach. Had surgery way back in 1996 and developed bad happens from there. I have to work really hard to keep my shoulders away from my ears and pull my belly button in so that my back is not shaped like this. ). It really impacts me at the canter. I have had frozen shoulder on both shoulders so lifting them toward my ears is a constant struggle. Between the two issues I struggle to follow the movement of my horse.
My hips can hurt. I am 5'4" and ride a 16.3 OTTB who is nicely filled out. I am also 68 years old. I do pigeon pose, forward bend, squat pose, and lunges. I always do the squat right before I get on as it both opens your hips and lengthens your back at the same time. Also lunges. I do the other poses at home after riding. Yoga helps so much. Thanks for your videos and teachings.
Thank you for sharing what works for you! I already do pigeon pose, it has helped open and loosen my hips somewhat, I think! I actually have no idea if my hips are tight or flexible, I wish there was a test or something, haha. I have asked my instructor, but she isn't much for feedback like that, so I don't know. Thank you for listing the poses you do, I will try the squat pose for sure, my lower back hurts after riding a posting trot for any length of time and I have never had any previous back issues, so I want to deal with it as proactively as possible, thanks!
I feel you 😟 I also had some terribly painful problems with my hips, so I stucked for few minutes and literally can't move, so I won't feel paralizing pain if do so. It was happening in very differents moments, after end of the ride, while I was on mountain horse trip or the worst what happens still - when I just lay down on the floor and I can't normally get up. But fuck, I'm 19 and this though is paralizing me
Inner thigh...stretching before and warming up....
I have no injuries but I do have rounded shoulders I need to fix.
I do have a pretty short achilles tendon (just genetics) wich makes it really hard for me to properly keep my heels down.
Thank you for the info Callie. I have an old running injury to my right hip/sacral area. I stretch, but it’s not enough; I’m lopsided and compensating when I ride. It would be a great help to know and practice poses to heal this.
I loove this video! Thanks! I think that my biggest problem are my arms and shoulders...
I'm not able to ride much right now, so it's great to have things I can do to physically improve my riding, as opposed to just the mental things like reading and videos! My whole life I've had "heels down" screamed at me. It's only after an injury they discovered I have abnormally short Achilles. I've been doing yoga the last few years and it's helped so much! Any tips on poses/ mental imagery etc for terrible posture? I sit at a desk for 10 hours a night. I knew I had terrible posture on the ground, but it didn't affect my riding. Now I'm rounding all the time! 😣
They make those vest things that help with posture, maybe wearing one while you are at your desk would help? I hold terrible tension in my shoulders, (I am a super nervous, tense person) and tend to have them up by my ears, haha, I never realized how bad it was until I started riding and was made aware of it. I want one of those vests to wear around the house... As it is I have post-its all over my apartment reminding me to pull my shoulders down and back and to BREATHE, haha. My boyfriend thinks I have gone insane!😳 But it has helped, my posture is much better now on the horse but I still lose it sometimes while posting, I want to try one of the vests while riding too, to see if it helps! It couldn't hurt, anyway! Best of luck with everything!
I have found a footrest helps me stay in a good position at my desk.
Hi Callie! These are great! I often get yelled at by my trainer to get my right heel down. Too often!! I find that I try to grip the stirrup with my right toes (monkey toes). I don’t have any past injuries, that I know of but my right foot needs to start behaving!! Any yoga suggestions or other suggestions you have to overcome this issue? TIA
BTW - your training book “Stay In The Saddle” has been SO incredibly helpful! ❤️
great video and great news about yoga for riders sessions. I'm looking forward to it. I personally struggle with left side (left leg from hip joint to ankle) weakness and it's longterm ongoing problem. I wasn't aware of how much I compensate until I started riding. I cannot correctly rest my weight on the left side and it makes me very unbalanced and prevents control of the horse. for this struggle I do combination of yoga and pilates. on top of this, around 2 mo ago Ive had a back injury (bulging disc L5/S1) and I haven't been riding since then... I wonder how this gonna affect my riding. I hope it doesn't mean I can't ride a horse anymore.
Hollow back...hips (whole upper body moving with the canter...not just the hips)
Ever since I got knocked down by fibromyalgia, I had to stop riding (and working and everything else fun) because of the overall pain and fatigue. Now 12 yrs later it is going a bit better, so maybe with some yoga it might get well enough to try and get on a horse again... Let's hope and see!
Yes my right ankle,calf to the knee always hurts after being in saddle for a while foot in stirrup
Another very helpful video, thank you, Callie!
I have been trying to find exercises and yoga moves that help with riding, I currently do pigeon pose to open the hip? I hope it works for that, it really seems to loosen and open them...
I need to try things for relaxing the lower back- I find that after a lesson spent working on posting trot my lower back is often very sore, which is odd because I have never suffered from back problems or pain of any sort before starting to ride! Are there any specific poses for loosening/strengthening the lower back that have helped you, besides those that you mentioned in this video? I am signed up for the new course, I can't wait for it! Thank you so much, without your videos I would still be bouncing and sliding like a sack of potatoes, haha! I have an excellently credentialed instructor, but I think she is better at doing than explaining how to do, if that makes sense? So your clear and straightforward tips have been an absolute game changer for me, I wouldn't be where i am without them! You clarify and support what my instructor is trying to get through to me, I would really be much less aware of many important little things if not for your help! Now if you could just help me master sitting trot, haha!
Thanks again for everything!
I've had a quite severe scoliosis since i was like 8 and always knew it was affecting my riding, but to this day i still don't know how to make my technique more balanced. I tend to put more pressure on the other side of my body to try and make up for the unbalance, but I don't think it is a great solution and i would love to find someone who could guide me through how to be more effective with what my body can offer
My calves and hips
My trouble spots are left ankle, right hip area and shouoders. Would love exercises to help loosen up!
I've worked on building back up my core from when I had a baby and I feel really good there but yeah pretty stiff in those areas still.
I know I would love to lose weight to ride my horse better, but my hip areas and my pelvis are so full of arthritis, it makes it so painful. And as long as you put the video of the yoga poses and instructions on here, I will favorite it and even try to use it often. I've never tried yoga before, but at least it looks more slow going than high intensity aerobics. Just can't do it or can't stick with it.
My back and knees get painful at times when I ride. I try not to let that get me down. I have been told I have bursitis so I try to regularly exercise to keep away the pain. I don’t want to stop riding until I absolutely have to. I hope that is never just saw a picture of Queen Elizabeth riding at 94. I hope that’s me someday.
Very helpful! I'm very stiff in my hips and mostly my shoulders but can we please talk a out that horse! So responsive and relaxed, and he instantly flexed his neck when she brought her hand down! Someone's been doing yoga too I guess :)
My issue is I have a slightly shorter leg on one side, I have stiffness around my ankles also from plantar facilitus and I just lose my stirrups when I change from sitting trot to canter. I then end up clinging to the side of my horse and losing the motion altogether. Sorry along one
What the exercise that make me stop the horse during gallope without facing a difficulty
It’s the opposite for me I can ride whenever I want and I am very lucky for that but I don’t have a trainer. I am going to see one in August but I have to go to her and she wants to use one of her own horses.
I have knee cap problem and my knee aches as I do raising.
I usually have tension in my back, shoulders, hips, thighs, knees, heels.. You name it, I probably had if not have it.😂
Lower left side of my back and left inner knee tend to hurt after riding.
I have rotated forward and down on left side pelvis that is fused due to car accident and crushed vertebrae’s , so I find it hard to soften in that area , and I find am so stiff and sore after riding , I think I brace myself as I have a spooky horse , is there any stretches that may help me please :)
I would love to know if you have an answer for me - the muscles on either side of my very lower back (coccyx area) really become tight after riding - I have a feeling it's due to my own tension / fear whilst riding, but was wondering if you have any solution. I do yoga after every ride and have many stretches that really help, but would like to know the root cause? many thanks
My knees tense as I ride , and I struggle to find ways to relax my knee.,
Does anyone get really bad foot pain on the bottom of your feet? Its gotten so bad I can only ride for 15 min at a time. I don't know how to fix it or why its happening! Help?!
I have moderate scoliosis and kyphosis in my spine. I am physically unable to balance myself in the saddle the same way as everyone else. I find I have a very weak core and poor range of movement in my body.
I don't know if I just need more potassium or what but my calves always try to get charlie horses when I ride. Any ideas how to prevent this?
Are you hydrated? I always struggle with drinking enough water.
@@irenecoermann2439 That could definitely be it!
Maybe try magnesium. I use epsom salt diluted in warm water and rub it into my legs.
Don't know what it is, propably of my great, sick-from-birth spine, but I can have sometimes big problems with my hips and lower back. In short, I used to have attacks of so paralizing pain that I literally couldn't move for few minutes, I was feeling like my nerves in spine have some knife spining inside them if I moved. It could happen in any time, while I was laying on bed, when I get off the horse, to this day it still always happens when I lay down on the floor and I can't get up. I'm scared, as this is something people much older than me gets and I'm just 19, how can I have something like this?! I found out that since before every ride I stretch, these attacks haven't happened, but if I lay on the floor - here we go again 😭
I personally tense my shoulder and neck muscles when riding and it takes away alot of my concentration. Guess my posture is bad to :-\
Also, where do we sign up for the yoga for riders classes? I must be missing it...
Dressage rider training has yoga videos and yoga with adriene does as well. I hope we get some vidoes on this channel though too!?
My left shoulder is raised and stiff due to previous injury and operation.
Older rider here...62! Returning after 40 years away. Cancer treatment left me with arthritis in every joint. I know I need yoga !signed up for the course ! Bless you!
My lower back
I’m sad that I’m 26 years old and never get the chance yet to own a horse or at least to ride it when ever I want 🙁