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Video: Fold a Horse Blanket Like a Pro in 30 Seconds

Here’s a quick tip to take you into your weekend when you’ll be puttering around the barn and hanging out with your horses: “A blanket should always be folded neatly and hung up,” say pro grooms Cat Hill and Emma Ford in their bestselling book WORLD-CLASS GROOMING FOR HORSES. “Blankets chucked over the wall or…

September 9, 2016
“The pictures in Centered Riding helped me develop my own understanding and improved my teaching over the years”

Susanne von Dietze, author of BALANCE IN MOVEMENT (now available again!) and RIDER & HORSE BACK TO BACK, is an internationally respected and highly sought-after riding coach and clinician. Her first experiences with CENTERED RIDING were possible because of the book’s worldwide distribution—it has been translated into 16 languages! Here she shares how she was…

November 27, 2015
“Centered Riding is as valuable today as it was 30 years ago”

“It’s awesome to recognize it has been 30 years since Trafalgar Square Books (www.horseandriderbooks.com) published CENTERED RIDING,” says Dr. Beth Glosten, dressage rider, certified Pilates instructor, and author of THE RIDING DOCTOR. Dr. Glosten discovered Sally Swift’s groundbreaking work when she first tried to get back into riding following medical school and the early stages…

November 25, 2015
“I still have my first Centered Riding videos—even though they have to be played on a VCR, not a DVD player!”

Sue Tinder is owner and manager of Tolland Falls Equestrian Center in Sedalia, Colorado, and author of THE JUMP COURSE DESIGN MANUAL. In sharing her CENTERED RIDING memory, Sue admitted still owning videocassettes—a retro CENTERED RIDING anniversary moment! “The CENTERED RIDING videos were the first horse-related videos I ever purchased,” says Sue. “I really found…

November 18, 2015
“How fortunate we all are to have Sally Swift’s vision of partnership with our horses.”

In recognition of the 30th Anniversary of CENTERED RIDING’s publication, dressage trainer and judge Kathy Connelly shared these thoughts about author Sally Swift and what she contributed to the horse world: “Sally Swift was an icon in every way. As a person, she was very kind, joyful, and encouraging to all. It never mattered to Sally…

November 16, 2015
“One of many important things Sally Swift taught us was how to find our true center of balance, energy, and body control”

Jennifer Forsberg Meyer is Senior Editor at Horse&Rider Magazine and co-author of TSB’s Reining Essentials with Cowgirl Hall of Fame Inductee Sandy Collier. She wrote key articles about CENTERED RIDING and Sally Swift’s teaching in 1998 and 2000, and here shares her “Lightbulb Moment” in honor of TSB’s 30-year celebration: “Oops!” My face reddened…

November 13, 2015
“I still use Sally Swift’s visual of how a rider should sit.”

Janet Foy is an FEI/USEF dressage judge, popular clinician, and author of the bestselling DRESSAGE FOR THE NOT-SO-PERFECT HORSE and new book DRESSAGE Q&A WITH JANET FOY. She shared this CENTERED RIDING “aha” moment in honor of our 30th Anniversary: “I still use Sally Swift’s visual of how a rider should sit—like a tall pine…

November 11, 2015
Come See TSB at Equine Affaire in MA! Plus, a Quick-Ref Cheat Sheet to Where and When Our Authors Are Presenting

We’re packed and ready to head to Springfield, Massachusetts, for EA 2015. Join TSB this Thursday-Sunday, November 12-15, at the Eastern States Exposition, for fabulous clinics from top trainers, riders, and equine experts, as well as a terrific pre-holiday shopping experience. Stop by the TSB booth #846-847 in the Better Living Center for our perennial…

November 10, 2015
“I was just about ready to quit when somebody handed me CENTERED RIDING.”

Cat Hill grew up in upstate New York on a working farm. Her earliest memory is of the day her parents got her a pony for her birthday. She grew up on that pony, which was followed by a series of Arabian show horses. In college, she started riding show hunters through the Intercollegiate Horse…

November 9, 2015
Centered Riding: “‘Feel’ is more achievable and teachable than one may believe.”

To help TSB celebrate the 30th Anniversary of our first horse book CENTERED RIDING, this month some of our top authors will share their Sally Swift memories and “aha” moments. Here, TSB author Linda Benedik (YOGA FOR EQUESTRIANS; YOGA & RIDING DVDS; LONGEING THE RIDER FOR THE PERFECT SEAT) tells us why CENTERED RIDING was…

November 3, 2015