Simplify Your Riding

In horseback riding, body alignment and balance is everything. Featuring easy step-by-step instructions, this guide takes some of the most important yet basic principles of riding and makes them simple, showing riders of all skill levels how to eliminate unconscious restrictions and use their bodies to achieve a higher level of performance.

5 minutes a day is all the time you need to achieve: • Better balance in the saddle • Improved body control from head to toe • Increased influence with your seat • Flawless leg position and subtle aiding • Quieter, softer hands and contact your horse can trust • Less physical stiffness, tension, and riding-related pain • Confidence in your ability to communicate with your horse! PLUS, in just 5 minutes you can improve a horse that's: • Unwilling to go forward or "dead" to the leg • Hollow-backed, high-headed, or above the bit • Heavy on the forehand and unbalanced • A chronic "puller," "leaner," or "head-tosser"! Start or end your riding sessions with Wendy Murdoch's 5-Minute Fixes, and you'll be amazed how quickly you can replace old habits with new ones, get out of your "riding rut," and transform what you can't do into what you can do…naturally, capably, comfortably, and consistently alongside a happy riding partner—your horse.

Horses allow ordinary people to do extraordinary things, and this extraordinary book shows you how. Now revised and updated, the Complete Horse Riding Manual covers dressage, show jumping, and cross-country riding, detailing everything you need to know to compete in these events, whether you are a beginner or more experienced rider. Complete Horse Riding Manual is brimming with advice on finding the best horse for you, training a young horse, forming the ultimate horse-and-rider team, boosting and maintaining your own physical fitness and suppleness, and building the fitness and stamina of your horse.

Newly updated and extended, Advanced Western Riding joins the experience and enthusiasm of equestrienne Kara L. Stewart with the wisdom of Horse Illustrated to bring this definitive guide to advanced western riders. The book goes beyond the fundamentals to teach readers how to refine their riding skills--from the right mental attitude to the proper seat and hands to advanced schooling techniques and competitions. Complete with step-by-step instructions, countless tips, full-color photos, and an easy-to-use glossary, this guide takes the guesswork out of advanced western riding.

Six collected article by Wendy Murdoch first printed in Eclectic Horseman Magazine now bound together. Part 1 in the Ride Like A Natural® Reader Series.

This is a new release of the original 1948 edition.

Simplicity expert Elaine St. James, author of "Simplify Your Inner Life", has a solution for beleaguered parents everywhere. "Simplify Your Life with Kids" offers practical, down-to-earth advice for the vital, time-demanding, perplexing issues that all parents face. St. James explores such topics for simplifying family life as making mealtime fun, stopping tantrums, establishing a simple bedtime routine, and more.