Brain Training for Riders: Unlock Your Riding Potential with Stressless Techniques for Conquering Fear, Improving Performance, and Finding Focused Calm - Softcover

Andrea Monsarrat Waldo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1570767513 ISBN 13: 9781570767517

Publisher: Trafalgar Square, 2017

Synopsis

If you are having fear issues stemming from moving up in rank or if you're quivering in your riding boots post-accident, this book is a must read

Regardless of age, experience, or ability, the truth is that those who ride horses often suffer from fear, anxiety, nervousness and other performance blocks. Did you know there is an area of your brain known as the 'Lizard Brain' that thinks only about the immediate moment and your means of survival? Yes, in certain circumstances, your Rational Brain can effectively shut down and you are at the mercy of a reptile ... dry-mouthed, sweating, queasy, unable to think clearly even though you know better. When does the Lizard Brain run the show? It can happen in any number of unfamiliar, uncomfortable, challenging, or stressful riding situations.

But here's the thing, with the right kind of training, you can learn to manage the reptile within, which leads to greater confidence with horses, better riding performance, and ultimately, happiness at the barn, at shows, and everywhere in between.

Here psychotherapist, Andrea Waldo is the expert to help. She has been a competitive rider for over 20 years, a riding instructor for 10 and a psychotherapist for 18 with a speciality in trauma treatment and solution orientated therapy.

Tapping these qualifications, Waldo developed Stressless Riding: simple, yet powerful exercises and a comprehensive set of tools to improve rider confidence and effectiveness in the saddle.

Brain Training for Riders introduces these techniques, while helping equestrians understand their emotions as an interaction between their brain chemistry and their experiences.

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Review

So many riders give up riding, or suffer terribly before competitions because of being afraid. This book helps tame those fears and shows riders how to work through those problems. If you get stressed, nervous or anxious riding at home or in competition, then this is the book for you. It explains how to train your brain to handle the fear and doubt and to stay focused and calm allowing you to ride to the best of your ability. Highly recommended. --Jacqui Broderick, Horse and Pony Ireland

Andrea Waldo knows what it takes to overcome challenges that would flatten most people. The strategies in this book worked for her wed do well to listen. --Denny Emerson, USEA Hall-of-Fame Inductee

About the Author

Andrea Waldo holds a Counselling Master s Degree, a US Eventing Association certified riding instructor and co-owner of Triple Combination Farm in Vermont, USA where she and her business partners train horses and riders and run Stressless Riding Performance Coaching workshops.

Edition details

• Publisher: Trafalgar Square
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1570767513
• ISBN 13: 9781570767517
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 224