Wally's here on a course!

[Heather]

HI All,

Very pleased to meet Wally otherwise known as Jo, at last, who is here on a course. I feel that I have known her for ages through NR anyway, and we have spoken a few times on the phone. We have got another super lady here Amanda, and both are great fun and really easy to teach. I rarely go down the pub for the second night of the course, unless the students have no transport, but am making an exception tonight!


Heather

[Kerry's Partner!!]

Brilliant news about Wally and Amanda - and you too Heather. Mine's a full bodied red wine (wish I was there).

[Monty]

Wish I was there!!!
Lots and Lots of pet-lambs to feed instead!!!

[Miriam]

Hope they are having a great time and you too Heathr. It must be great for you to put the names to faces on the group.

[Heather]

HI All,

Both Jo and Amanda have done absolutely briliantly and have been a pleasure to have here and to teach. Jo is riding superbly, and I will be very happy to have her on board as an Enlightened Equitation teacher, as she intends to be.

Heather

[Katie_85]

Great news Wally, Amanda, and Heather! :)

[Silvia]

Sounds like you all had a lot of fun! I'm sure Wally will make a great EE instructor. :)

[Heather]

She will indeed Silvia,

Just a pity shes way offshore on Shetland! Funny thing, I had a penfriend on Shetland as a child for some years- we lost touch in late teens, and would you believe Jo knows her!

Heather

[ros]

Well, if we can get someone around Penzance we can at least say that EETTs are now Nationwide. All we have to do is fill in the gaps!

[Wally]

Wow what a course, brilliant, Heather's horses are wonderful, so patient, Ringo has a personality as big as he is, Millie, bless her, is a real sweetie.

I had to make base camp on the mounting block on the way onto Ringo! Give me chance to aclimatise to the altitude! He's the biggest horse I've ridden in 20 years, a very long way from my hairy Icelandics! Millie too is much bigger than I am used to. They both had trot which, I think, took me a while to get used to again after such a long time on pacey, flat Icelandic trots.

I surprised myself, I could sit to the trot, even on Ringo, whose elevation is so much more than I am used to, Heather got me to quit my stirrups point my toes down, HARD! and bingo! I was sitting in the saddle to an enourmous trot, easy peasy when I got exactly the right movement in my back.

Heather let me have a play too with Travers, half pass and flying changes, I will win no prizes, but Ringo taught me where I was going wrong with my horse by doing EXACTLY what I asked him, I got the question right he responded with wonderful answers. I lost my stirrup in canter along the long side, as I fished about with my foot Ringo, bless him, did flying changes almost every stride! this is how sensetive Heather's horses are! I also got the real feeling of holding the horse in collection using the power, not of thought, but of backside! I have a lot to work with now, I still need more.

If only I had had Heather to teach me 20 years ago! No imagery, no "horsey" terms, no long convoluted explainations, just simplicity itself,... twitch a muscle on your body, lift a certain part of your anatomy and the horse will respond, and it works on poorly schooled horses too, not just highly trained ones like hers!

If Heather makes it to Aberdeen I shall do my best to get my little nag over for us to all work together.

Heather, my mother was not half so tollerant of my constant coughing as you and Amander were, She forced me to the Docs. office, turned out it was a chest infection!! Getting better now with anti-biotics!!