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If you want to learn how to spend quality time with your horse, forget your worries, and achieve natural stress-free excellence, this talk is the place to be.

This introduction to my work is more than just a riding club talk. It is an interactive workshop that engages the audience into more than 500 years of horsemanship and self-development, with down-to-earth, no-nonsense cutting edge techniques to simplify riding practices.

Who is the talk aimed at? Riders of all levels, ages and disciplines of horsemanship who want to find natural, stress-free excellence while preserving their horse from unnecessary pain and injury during training whether it is competing, hacking or just caring for their horse.

What is the talk about.
How to overcome the three main blocks that inhibited riders from achieving riding excellence.
1.How are busy minds block our progress.
2.How are unreliable feelings make right feel wrong.
3.How are horse throws us off balance and make it impossible for us to sit straight.

What happens on the night? The first part of the evening kicks off at 7.30pm with a chair game that gives riders the opportunity to focus on:

How to over come crippling nerves

How to feel confidant

How to remain clear and focused under pressure
How to correct one-sidedness
How to improve feel and timing
How to enjoy learning and perform with ease
How to come to your senses

COFFEE BREAK.8.30pm

After the coffee break Joni demonstrates how asymmetry in the horse makes it impossible for the rider to sit straight, covering topics like:

IS YOUR HORSE: Left or right handed?
DO YOU HAVE A: dominant seat bone?
  dominant leg?
  dominant hand?
  stiff side?
DOES YOUR HORSE: lean in on one rein?
  have one shoulder bigger than the  other?
  not want to go forwards?
DOES YOUR HORSE: find moving sideways more difficult on one rein?
IS YOUR SADDLE HURTING YOUR HORSE?
IS YOUR HORSE IN DANGER OF GETTING  RSI (repetitive strain injury) because of forceful training?
   

HOW EXPERIENCED IS THE SPEAKER?

Since 1984, Joni Bentley has been lecturing and training thousands of riders around the world from novice to grand prix with a simple, easy, logical but revolutionary style that has produced extraordinary results. She is a qualified BHS instructress, Alexander Teacher, Reiki master and NLP practitioner. She has two best-selling books published, "Improving the Riders Position," and "Riding Success without Stress," Six part audio tape series, and a newly published, "DVD, "How to come to your senses and improve your feel". Her passion is to help riders find natural, stress-free excellence while preserving horses from unnecessary pain and injury that often result from the rider’s tension and crookedness

WHAT’S IN IT FOR THE CLUB?

Joni's Fee

 Joni charges £150 plus travel for the talk.
Bonus 1:   For riding clubs the ticket price at £10 per head (normally they are £18.50 or £20 on the door) which means you only need 15-17 people to cover her fee. Every attendee after that makes profit for the club. Many use these extra funds to sponsor hard working unpaid committee member to go on follow up workshops or organize free training days.
Bonus 2 By inviting other clubs in your area to your talk, you clubs boost ticket sales and raise some serious funds for your riding club.
Bonus 3  Joni is  published in a horse magazines every month. At the end of each editorial she advertises up-and-coming talks, which gives the clubs more exposure and a greater opportunity to recruit new members on the night.

HOW EASY IS IT TO ORGANIZE? Very easy. The first talk only requires a village hall or large room, depending on the numbers, so all that is left to do is:

  •  Announce the talk in the newsletter
  •  Book the venue.
  • Ask members to send a stamped address envelope with their cheque for their ticket.

IS THERE A FOLLOW UP TALK? Yes. The follow up mounted talk includes:

How to:

  1. Sit straight

  2. Sit in the middle of your horse

  3. Negate your horse's crookedness

  4. Improve your feel

  5. Refine your stirrup contact

  6. Refine your seat bone contact

  7. Diagnose your horse's crookedness

  8. Sit equally on both reins

If you would like me to give a talk to your club please email me here or better still call me on 07771811561

“The Bentley technique is so easy and different to any horse training I have ever come across and I believe it will revolutionise horse training in the future. It has resolved so many issues horse training problems for me in an uncanny “magic wand” kind of way. Joni Bentley's horse training, gives the most careful consideration to all the different factors involved in horse and rider crookedness. It then  shows you through simple exercises how, by “unfixing” rather than “fixing” horse and rider,  crookedness gradually crystallizes out more and more, up to a point where it dissolves and solves itself.”
Andy Ford's eventing pupils compete at Burghley, Badminton and Boekolo, and he also teaches F.E.I and pony dressage clients.

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Joni's approach is totally cutting edge.
Her training style proves without a shadow of a doubt that less is more.
In the workshop and talk, we all felt very relaxed and calm with no pressure put on us
to do things correctly, or in such a way that would over stretch us in our mind or  bodies!
I have heard many  times that less is more, but I never imagined  that such  seemingly small, easy, changes, would make such enormous lasting improvements in riding.
Before Joni came to our club,  I did not believe that years of crookedness  in both my own and my horse's body, could be altered so dramatically and so quickly.
My perception has now totally changed. Using Joni's training tools regularly, has  not only transformed my position,  sensitivity and riding, it has given me quality time with my horse.  
I now see negatives as positives e.g. my shoulders were a big tension point for me, now they are my entry point to relax  my whole
body,  straighten, my seat and improve my own and my horses posture. This powerful but  simple  organic approach has also  benefited  my work life. As a busy Lawyer I now have much more command over my stress levels.
I would definitely recommend Joni's  talks and workshops. I must admit at first I  was rather anxious  about how the club members would  get on, and whether they thought it would help them.  I shouldn't have. Everyone loved both the evening talk and the workshops, and best still  continue to feel the benefit of the exercises which continue to  improve our  riding. Roll on the next workshop. We are all chomping at the bit!!
Lorna Richardson Chairperson for Uckefield Riding Club, East Sussex