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Durchlassigkeit 
It's for riders, too

I found this lovely quote in the book The Art of Learning

 

With riding, we talk about horses needing durchlassigkeit.  I think riders need this even more so!

I love this word!  'lassig' is 'to allow.'  Or 'to leave' or 'to let' or 'to let be.'   'Durch' means through.   'Keit' just means we're talking about the noun version of this concept.  Altogether:  durchlassigkeit means the quality of allowing through.

There's no force.  There's no resistance.

And you, too, may pass.

What's the benefit of this?

Considering size, the horse wins.  If you're tight and resistant, you are a solid object the horse can move.  (off it's back.)  If you are 'through-allowing' you stay on the horse.

If you're tight and resistant, the part of you that should be moving is not, and instead of being un-impacted by the horse's movement, the force of that movement is going into the thing that isn't moving - your hip socket, your lower back, your neck, etc.  Not only does this probably result in more gripping, and more tightness and less moving, it's causing damage.   To you and your horse.  No beuno.

When you are 'through-allowing' you horse moves in freedom and you stay on it's back.  Win-win.

An Approach

Centered Riding is based on Tai Chi and I have studied marshal arts for nearly as long as I've ridden using the Centered Riding approach.  In movies there's a lot of 'attack' things going on.  What you'll learn first, though, is how to get out of the way.  How to evade.  How to not be there.  (Which is really compatible with the horse's approach to life!  run first, stand and fight if you have to.)  (OK - yeah, movies would be no fun if was just Bruce Lee, or Chuck Norris, or Steven Seagal, or Jackie Chan running for two hours!)

To understand the idea of 'through-allowing' I like the idea of 'dissolving' things that are solid.  I just watch them evaporate, like mist in the morning sun.
Another image I like is simply erasing it - the way you would erase a chalk board or a white board.

Or, if you're into sensate communication, putting a heat lamp on something and melting it feels wonderful.

Another concept which can be useful is to think about being a bean bag.  (with enough tone to stay on the horse!)  Where are the beans moving?  Where are they stuck?  How moving are they?

With images, you don't have to make things happen.  You simply need to accurately perceive what is happening and observe it.  Your 'right brain' that doesn't use words will take that information and adjust appropriately.  It can adjust better than your 'left brain' could ever figure out or comprehend.  

 

Interested?  Call or email or pm and and set up a lesson!  This is what I teach.  Let me share with you how to use these concepts for greater  understanding and harmony with your horse.  The fabulous rides follow.

 

Lynn 
Centered Riding Instructor & Level III Clinician 
Copyright © 09/24/15 Lynn S. Larson
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