Are you a rider looking to improve your awareness of your body and the systems supporting your balance, strength, agility, vitality and functionality? This self-paced online course is an opportunity to expand and deepen your understand what it means to be both existing in a body as well as interfacing with horses in and out of the saddle. It was designed by Osteopathic Manual Practitioner and fellow rider Alexa Linton to support you to understand the function, form, landscape and connectivity of your unique body, and in turn, understand your horse better as well.
It’s important on a number of levels to meet horses where they are – in the body. When we know our body, and how it functions, we hold the keys to understanding how to move more freely, find confidence in unexpected or novel experiences (which happen with horses all the time!), and find that ever elusive sense of play by discovering renewed joy in moving, an asset to any horse-human relationship.
This course includes seven 75 minute webinars with Alexa covering essential physical mechanisms to riders and horse people through an osteopathic lens and movement science lens, with a practice to complete each webinar to integrate the new information into your system. Each webinar has a downloadable Powerpoint in PDF format.
If you love to geek out, this is the course for you! Here is the self-paced curriculum:
- Webinar 1: The Myofascial System
- Webinar 2: The Musculoskeletal System
- Webinar 3: The Nervous System
- Webinar 4: The Pressure Mechanisms
- Webinar 5: The Postural Mechanisms
- Webinar 6: The Craniosacral System
- Webinar 7: The Visceral Systems
What you will receive when you register:
- Over 8 hours of video content in webinar form with Alexa Linton moving through the 7 main osteopathic systems and detailing how these apply specifically to your body systems as a rider and horse person.
- Corresponding downloadable PDFs with links.
- 7 integrative practices to incorporate these understandings into your daily life and riding
- Lifetime access to the course materials on Outside the.Box Equine
- Support from Alexa via comments on course pages
- And it’s all very affordable at just $55 CAD!
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Meet your Instructor
Alexa Linton is a life-long horse lover, Osteopathic Manual Therapist, Kinesiologist, Equine Sport Therapist of 20 years, host of the Whole Horse Podcast, now in it’s 9th season, facilitator, author, and creator of the Whole Horse Collective, a membership community focused on equine and rider wellness, and most recently, Outside the Box Equine, an educational hub for species-specific horse keeping. Her vision is to support a change worldwide in horse keeping practices towards more species-specific care, ethically informed training and riding, and a more collaborative approach to being with and sharing our lives with horses. Alexa
Alexa has a bustling osteopathy practice on Raven Moon Farm, a 5-acre forested paradise where she has built a track system for her herd of four, Diva, Raven, Gwynna and Reykur in the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island. She and her partner Patrick are building a horse-keeping demonstration site where she hosts workshops and retreats and inspires horse lovers to shift their horse spaces by showing what is possible.