We will look at the work and research of Postural Rehabilitation, an intervention for treating horses by influencing how the animal is organized in stance. The discomfort, or physical cost of staying upright on a compromised system influences all aspects of the four legged athlete including their performance, their susceptibility to injury, their breathing and their behaviour.  The intervention is not unlike a chair lesson in that it encourages the animal to maintain dynamic lengthening while challenging its balance. What we continually observed over the last twenty years is that when a horse becomes better organized, function and adaptability improve and behavioural issues all but disappear.

In this workshop, we will compare this to our process as Alexander Teachers by exploring our own ‘four legged-ness’ and examine the relationship of postural support to our own adaptability and resilience.