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Brain Based Approach to Rider Biomechanics and Movement correction. Improving riding subconsciously!

12/04/2026

Proprioception and Feel: Why you can’t feel your horse

“I can’t feel what my horse is doing.”

This is almost always a proprioception problem.

Sharp proprioception = you can feel:
•Subtle shifts in weight and balance
•Changes in rhythm and stride
•Tension or resistance in movement
•How your horse responds to your cues

Poor proprioception triggers means your disconnected. You can’t sense what’s happening so you can’t respond. This leads to miscommunication and frustration.

The neurocentric truth - Proprioception is how your nervous system processes sensory information. If it’s underdeveloped your brain can’t process the signals your horse is sending.

The fix - Train your proprioceptive system and when your brain learns to process information clearly you develop genuine feel.

We help riders sharpen proprioception for better feel and partnership.

Ready to develop real feel?

✉️Lotti@theneurocentricrider.co.uk

11/04/2026

Proprioception and Balance: Why you feel unstable

Poor proprioception = unstable feeling in the saddle.

When your proprioceptive system is sharp your brain knows where your body is. You feel balanced and secure.

When it’s poor your brain doesn’t have accurate information.
This creates:
•Feeling unstable and insecure
•Constant need to look down to know where you are
•Gripping and tension to compensate
•Loss of confidence

The neurocentric reality, poor proprioception triggers a nervous system threat response. Your brain doesn’t know if you are e balanced or about to fall so you grip.

You want to fix it - We retrain your proprioception system and when your brain gets clear information it relaxes naturally.

We help riders sharpen proprioception for genuine stability and confidence

Ready to feel more secure?

✉️lotti@theneurocentricrider.co.uk

10/04/2026

Proprioception in riding: Your hidden sense

Proprioception is your body’s ability to sense where it is in space “your sixth sense.”

In the saddle it’s everything. Sharp proprioception means:
•Feeling your balance without looking
•Sensing your position automatically
•Maintaining security without gripping
•Developing real feel and connection

When proprioception is poor riding becomes harder. Everything feels uncertain.

The neurocentric truth? Proprioception is a nervous system function. Your brain processes sensory information to create body awareness. Poor proprioception = confused nervous system.

The good news? Proprioception can be trained and improved.

We help riders sharpen their proprioception awareness for confident and effective riding.

Ready to improve your feel?

✉️lotti@theneurocentricrider.co.uk

09/04/2026

🐴Fun Facts🐴

Your lower back absorbs 3x your body weight at trot and 5x at canter. Core strength isn’t optional it’s essential!!!

Riders must maintain perfect posture while managing a 1,000+ IB animal. That’s neurocentric control at its finest.

Asymmetrical riding (favoring one side) is the #1 cause of riders pain. Your nervous system adapts to imbalance.

A riders balance point shifts millimeters during transition. Proprioception training changed everything!!!

Ready to ride pain free?

✉️Lotti@theneurocentricrider.co.uk

06/04/2026

Dont let your pain keep reminding you of your falls. It WILL hold you back.

Need help!!! Why not get in touch
✉️lotti@theneurocentricrider.co.uk

05/04/2026

🐴Happy Easter🐴
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04/04/2026

Hip Flexibility: The secret to better jumping

Your hips are the foundation of your jumping position.

Tight hips = restricted movement = loss of power and control. Here’s what happens:

❌Tight hip flexors - You brace your lower back (pain!)
❌Tight hip extension - You can’t open your seat over jumps
❌Tight hip abduction - You grip with your legs (tension = nervous horse)
❌Restricted hip rotation - You can’t follow your horses motion

The result? Less height, less control, more pain.

Flexible hips = better jumping

Flexible hips let you:
✔️Open your seat properly over the jumps
✔️Absorb landing impact without bracing
✔️Stay balanced through the motion
✔️Reduce strain on your lower back
✔️Give your horse freedom to jump bigger

Here’s the thing: Stretching alone won’t fix tight hips. Your nervous system has *locked* them for protection. You need neurocentric movement retraining to unlock that pattern.

Ready to jump higher and pain free?

✉️Lotti@theneurocentricrider.co.uk

03/04/2026

Did you know 🤔

The longest recorded horse jump is 8ft 1in🤯
Your hip flexibility matters more than you think!!!

02/04/2026

Read the caption on the photo….

… Now replace the word ‘pain’ with ‘threat’ and we can really start focus on your recovery.

Pain is an output and threat is an input. An input we can change. And once you make a change to the input the out put changes too.

✉️lotti@theneurocentricrider.co.uk

01/04/2026

When we look at the muscular dysfunction and see shoulder drop you have to look at the bigger picture on WHAT is stimulating those muscles to be tight or weak. ... and guess WHAT... its the brain and the nerves!

Levator scapulae nerve supply come from 3 areas C3, C4 and C5, all stimulating different section of the muscle. If these are not getting enough signal (which produces Muscle tone) then the scapula will drop. If these are over stimulated the scapula will be overly lifted.

The Erector Spinae use a nerve route called the Dorsal Rami and has supply coming from between every vertebrae from C1( top of the neck/skull) to L1 about 10-15cms up from the bottom of your back. Thats a lot of exit points from the spine but also a muscle group with a large amount of stimulation.

In rehab we can look at targeting those muscles but we have to understand the nerves and the route the network takes in order to get that muscle to contract.

Knowing that breath work or eye drills facility global (all over body) extension we use those easy and quick fixes to stimulate these nerves to enable you to get a stop leaning backwards or lift and drop that shoulder.

This is why when I give you strange drills to do but they work..... it's because I understand your wiring. Working on the wiring and the communication (nerves and brain) makes teaching movement so much easier and they come subconsciously.

✉️lotti@theneurocentricrider.co.uk

31/03/2026

If your cerebellum need help don't ignore it, it will be having a big effect on your riding which in turn will effect your horses movement. Plus with a few simple drills its can be activated and you can start seeing the rewards of getting you brain working for you

Contact us if you feel you need to know more about how we can help and find out if booking an appointment online or in person ridden or non ridden will benefit you.

✉️lotti@theneurocentricrider.co.uk

30/03/2026

Tight hips? Blame your nervous system not your flexibility.

Many riders think they need to stretch more but it your nervous system is in protection mode, stretching won’t help it will actually make tension worse.

Here’s what actually works: calm your nervous system first then movement becomes easier.

We use neurocentric techniques to reset your hip mobility so you can sit deeper in the saddle without effort.

Ready to unlock your natural flexibility?

✉️lotti@theneurocentricrider.co.uk

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