Ride in Balance: Expand Your Riding Skills with Body Awareness and Pilates Exercises is a culmination of Beth’s experience in medicine, rehabilitation, dressage and pilates. Improve your riding skills by understanding your body and its importance in good riding.

Use this book to improve posture, balance, and function on horseback by understanding your own body and its role in riding success.

Book includes:

• Basic Rider Anatomy that you can understand. Clear figures and careful language make your body understandable. Learn about the tools within in your body to improve your riding skills.
• Over 50 Pilates-based exercises demonstrate your anatomy and how your body works in movement and balance. The exercises are selected and geared towards developing riding skills.
• The Rider Checklist, the organization of the book, provides you with a systematic way to keep track of your position and function in the saddle. It is like the Dressage Training Scale, but for riders! Click here for more information on the rider checklist.
• Rider Position Issues and challenges are described, with exercise suggestions to improve upon the problem. As well, position issues are presented through fictional rider stories illustrating how some riding challenges present and can be improved.

Sample book segments:

• RIB - Table of Contents
  Table of Contents

• RIB - Introduction Sample
  Portions of Introduction

• RIB - Chapter 1 - Keep Mentally Focused
  Portions of Chapter 1: Keep Mentally Focused

• RIB - Chapter 2 - Maintain Good Posture
  Portions of Chapter 2: Maintain Good Posture

• RIB - Chapter 3 - Control Your Body - Legs
  Portions of Chapter 3: Control Your Body: Legs

• RIB - Chapter 4 - Control Your Body - Arms
  Portions of Chapter 4: Control Your Body: Arms

• RIB - Chapter 5 - Understand How Your Horse Moves
  Portions of Chapter 5: Understand How Your Horse Moves

• RIB - Sample Exercise Sequence
  Sample Exercise Sequence

• We only ship to the United States and Canada.
• International orders can be fulfilled through amazon.co.uk.
• You can also find the book on amazon.com.
• Holiday season 2011 note: orders placed through this web site by 12/13/11 will ship before Christmas!

“Beth – Just a note to tell you how brilliant your new book is. I thought there was an excellent book waiting to come out of you when I first read your articles on the web years ago. You did not disappoint. I have been teaching Pilates to horse riders for three years now with some success but some of your incisive analogies have totally changed my teaching. Thanks for your work.” October, 2011