Words cannot possibly convey that sense of feeling connected to a horse who is responding willingly and athletically to your seat and weight aids. Feeling connected through the reins we might say that a feeling of “elasticity” is the right word and maybe that comes close.
More often as we develop our partnership with the horse and our own skills there is the temptation to fiddle around, either with our hands and technique or with different bits, amongst other things, trying to get that feeling of purposeful movement that we know should be there somewhere.
Riding is much more about feel than about rules and as the number of rules seems to increase so does the frustration in our inability to remember them or even to understand what some of them mean. That’s the feeling one often gets after a riding session where it all seemed logical but where in the time spent alone until the next session the ideas get mixed up with our own ambitions and false approaches and months may go by where one feels that nothing seems to work.
A little every day guidance to keep us on track would go along way to resolving these experiences. The Synchronicity System cannot tell you how to have a deeper seat, develop your core strength, encourage your horse for confidence, fix a bitting issue, a saddle issue, a bad mood issue or a vanity issue but it can tell you every time you are heading in the wrong direction and then tell you when things are getting better.
With a little help from your human trainer, good books, many on-line resources and your own intuition, Synchronicity can tell you how you are doing. Everything can be an experiment. It wouldn’t take long to relax the contact a little and see how that goes. Nor would it take long to try out changes to your posture and maybe even try out different tack.
These little changes when you are getting instant feedback can quickly be measured as a change for the better or for the worse.
Maybe after all that you can begin to use words again – if you can!