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Learn the secret.
Free Mini-course!
The secret muscles that keep you on your horse!
Be stable and flexible in the saddle.
Course ends August 1, 2023.
Riding a horse can be wonderful!
However, it can be discouraging for you and your horse if you don’t know how to use your body correctly.
The Rider's Seat Method will show you how to use your body and breath to communicate directly with your horse.
When riding, the older you are, the further away the ground seems to be.
You will develop a safer and better relationship with your horse.
Riding instructors say:
- Sit deep in the saddle
- Sit on your pants pockets
- Heels down
- Find your balance point
- Ride from your center
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Using your psoas muscles accomplishes all of the above!
Riding instructors say:
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Sit up tall
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Shoulders back
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Chest out
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Chin in
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Lifting from your solar plexus and releasing your head does all of this!
Hello, my name is Tom.
I get to teach riders how to consistently have great rides with their horses.
Their horses' lives (and usually their own) get better!


Hi. My name is Jane.
I had been riding by myself and taking lessons for years and it wasn't until Tom taught me how to consciously use my psoas muscles that I realized what my riding instructors had been asking me to do all this time.
Now Tom and I ride together.
The semi-annual marriage ride.
Discovering how to use the psoas muscles.
“We believe every rider can be aware of how to use their core (psoas) muscles to ride safely and to move correctly with their horse.”
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The ‘Missing-link’

What Tom can do is show riders how to use their bodies in a natural, effective way that allows them to ‘get out of the way’ of their horse. The results are startling.”
Lisa Pritchard
Rider’s Seat Clinic organizer - UK
Why learn from me?
I teach you how to use your body to allow your horse to move with natural balance and freedom.
My expertise and training is in the basic biomechanics of how human bodies work. My experience in riding has shown me that how bodies move on the ground can be translated to how they move on the horse. This gives me a unique perspective to teach what I have learned in Aikido, Zen meditation and Zen Bodytherapy® and apply it to riding. My method enables riders to understand and do what their riding instructors are telling them.
While Jane was riding horses, I was at the dojo. I practiced Aikido and obtained the rank of 3rd degree black belt. I am an advanced practitioner of Zen Bodytherapy,® a bodywork discipline that combines deep tissue and alignment work. I started Zen meditation training in 1977 and became a certified teacher in 1986.
I was a guest speaker at the 2005 and 2006 Centered Riding© Symposiums in Brattleboro, Vermont where I met Sally Swift. It was after the symposium in 2005 that I asked Sally if she would write a forward to my book and she said yes. I was also a keynote speaker at the 2006 and 2007 Certified Horsemanship Association International Conferences in Colorado and Florida.
I have been teaching riders how to identify, experience and use their psoas muscles through my Rider's Seat clinics over the past 20 years. I conduct trainings and give lectures and presentations in the United States and Europe. I wrote and self-published Zen & Horseback Riding in 2001 and have sold more than 10,000 copies.
Zen & Horseback Riding
Some of you may have previous editions of Zen & Horseback Riding and each edition contains more information. Everyone joining the course will receive an electronic copy of the updated fourth edition of the book.
Read the reviews and get the paperback on Amazon.
Simple Pushes

Jane and I live in Northwest Illinois, with Sadie and Zak the dogs, Emma the cat, and Tucker and Chloé the horses.
