I talk considerably about movement, dance, rhythm and harmony in my book, “Centered Self, Centered Horse,” and cannot emphasize it quite enough so thought I would once again write about it. Why is the presence of ‘dance’ so vital to our interaction with the horse? To sum it up, we cannot expect from the horse [...]

According to each rider, equitation or horsemanship has a different meaning. Some popular themes run along these lines:

The horse gives us all of the information we need in order to succeed in eliciting the highest level of movements and purest form of grace from him, if we but listen…