Reclaim Lost Time for What Matters Most

Discover how to find an extra hour or two in your day for what truly matters.

Learn practical time tracking techniques, eliminate mindless distractions, and create intentional appointments with your equine partner to enhance both your lives.

Your Personal Keystone: Unlock the Power of Lasting Change

Discover how selecting a keystone practice like Feldenkrais can create positive chain reactions throughout your life.

Learn how gentle movement sequences can improve your riding, sleep, emotional resilience, and creativity while building a foundation for lasting transformation.

Improving a Horse’s Ability to Hold Up His Legs for Hoof Trimming

Discover how addressing your horse's entire body, especially back tension, can transform difficult hoof handling into a calm, cooperative experience.

Learn gentle, effective practices that replace force with understanding, creating lasting positive change in your horse's hoof care routine.

Body-Mind Harmony: 4 Keys to Moving WITH Your Horse

Discover the four essential hallmarks of healthy movement that apply to both you and your horse.

Learn how breathing, effortlessness, reversibility, and posture indicate physical and emotional well-being, and transform your horse-human partnership through better movement awareness.

Where Your Hip Joints Really Are (And Why It Matters)

Your hip joints hold the key to better riding – but only if you know where they really are.

Learn why traditional approaches often fail and discover a gentle, proven process that creates lasting change for you and your horse using the Feldenkrais Method.

Beyond Stretching: An Intelligent Approach to Flexibility

Discover why traditional stretching might be holding you back.

Learn how the Feldenkrais MethodⓇ and Debono Moves offer a revolutionary, science-backed approach to improving flexibility and movement for both riders and horses - without the risks of conventional stretching.

Enjoy Freer Shoulders in Ten Minutes!

Follow along with this video to make riding, grooming, and leading your horse easier and more enjoyable.

By understanding the natural connection between your shoulder blade and rib cage, you'll discover how to have lighter,  more independent hands - without stretching or strain.

The Power of Breath: Your Secret Training Tool

Discover how changing how you breathe can transform your interactions with your horse.

Learn practical ways to calm an anxious horse or enliven a "lazy" one, plus a Feldenkrais-inspired quadrant breathing lesson that can enhance your seat and connection!

Stuck in a Rut? Transform Your Horse Time Today

Feeling stuck in your horse routine? Discover practical, science-backed ways to refresh your horse time.

From simple changes in daily habits to mindset shifts, learn how to reignite your passion and deepen your connection with your horse through novel experiences and mindful practices.

Crafting Your Future: Make a Blueprint for Success

Discover how visualizing your future self can influence better decisions today.

In this episode, learn how to craft a compelling “future memory” that guides you toward a life of greater well-being, movement, and connection with your horse. Shape your future by making mindful choices now.

Mindset Magic: Reframing to Get Real Results

Discover the transformative power of reframing.

Learn how shifting your perspective can turn challenges into opportunities, enhance your relationship with your horse, and improve your riding experience. Embrace mindset shifts for a more fulfilling horse-human partnership.

Discover the Key to Rounding Your Horse’s Back

Learn the secret to your horse being able to round the back easily.

This episode reveals how the sternum and ribs can help—or hinder—a horse's ability to collect, and introduces a gentle, hands-on method to help horses rediscover comfortable movement, leading to improved performance and well-being.

Harmony in Motion: Exploring the Body-Mind Connection

Discover how the body-mind connection impacts your horsemanship. Learn practical ways to manage anxiety, increase presence, and deepen your bond with your horse.

Explore simple exercises to enhance awareness, relaxation, and performance for both you and your equine partner.

How Gentle Hands-On Work with Your Horse Deepens Your Connection, Reduces Your Stress, and Boosts Well-Being

Debono Moves, a gentle hands-on technique for improving equine movement and well-being, offers surprising benefits for you too.

This episode explores how the practice enhances the horse-human bond, promotes mindfulness, and translates into improved overall well-being for you and your horse. 

Sticky Learning: Varying Context for Lasting Improvement

Learn how varying the context of your horse's training can lead to lasting improvements in movement and well-being.

Mary Debono shares insights from the Feldenkrais Method to help you and your horse integrate learning more effectively.

How Novelty Can Transform Your Horse’s Movement and Mindset

Mary Debono discusses the power of using novel movements to support your horse's physical and emotional well-being.

By introducing gentle variations in movement, you can help your horse become more confident, resilient, and connected with you.

Creating Safety in Movement: A New Way to Help Your Horse

Mary Debono continues working with a horse’s current movement patterns rather than forcing immediate changes.

By supporting habits like spinal extension, horses can experience a safer, more effective transition toward healthier movement, enhancing both their physical and emotional well-being.

Why Your Horse’s Nervous System Resists Change—and What to Do About It

Mary Debono explores the counterintuitive approach of supporting a horse's natural movement habits rather than forcing them into a new posture. By creating a sense of ease and safety, you can help the horse’s nervous system become open to learning new, healthier movement patterns.

Movement Made Easy: Feldenkrais for Flexibility and Strength

In this episode, Mary tackles a common question: "Can you really increase flexibility and strength without stretching or pushing your limits?"

Drawing from the Feldenkrais Method, Mary explains how improving body awareness and reducing unnecessary tension can lead to greater strength and flexibility.

Move Better, Ride Better: 10 Weeks to a Stronger Horse-Human Connection

Body, Mind, and Connection. These are the three pillars that support a harmonious connection with your horse. In this episode, you'll learn why - and how to strengthen those pillars. 

Unlock your potential as an equestrian with the 'Move with Your Horse Foundations' program, a transformative 10-week journey starting on August 12, 2024. Experience profound improvements in your movement, posture, and connection with your horse through live classes, recorded lessons, and personalized support—all grounded in the powerful Feldenkrais Method.

Harmony in Motion: Creating Lasting Improvements for Horse & Rider

We're at Step 6 of the Six Steps to Creating Horse-Human Harmony! 

Today we focus on how you and your horse can explore and enjoy moving together. Mary discusses several mini exercises that can improve body awareness, coordination and the connection between horse and human. 

And very importantly, these short awareness exercises build on and reinforce the improvements that you and your horse achieved in the earlier steps. Tune in to learn more!

Unlocking Harmony: A Hands-on Approach for a Happier, Healthier Horse

Learn about Steps 3, 4, and 5 of the Six Steps to Creating Horse-Human Harmony. 

Discover how to use your hands to relieve your horse's tension, remind your horse that their movement can be supple and balanced, and transform tacking up into a pleasurable and enriching experience that feels good to you both. Yes, you read that right!

Get a free audio/video exercise at marydebono.com/breathinghorse. 

Unlocking Harmony: Intentional Breathwork with Your Horse

In this bonus episode, Mary delves into Step 2 of the Six Steps to Creating Horse-Human Harmony. 

Discover how to use your breath, intention, and loving energy to deepen your connection with your horse.

Hear practical tips, personal stories, and get a free audio or video exercise at marydebono.com/breathinghorse. 

Unlocking Harmony: Improve Your Movement, Improve Your Horse

In this episode, you'll learn all about Step 1 of the Six Steps to Creating Horse-Human Harmony. 

You'll get practical strategies to improve your self-awareness and movement, ultimately enhancing your horse's comfort and performance. 

Learn how the Feldenkrais MethodⓇ can foster better communication, trust, and well-being for you and your horse.

How to Create Horse-Human Harmony in Six Steps

Delve into the core issues that equestrians face, both for themselves and their horses. 

Hear about the six essential steps to create horse-human harmony. Mary explains how the Feldenkrais MethodⓇ and Debono Moves can improve human and equine movement and awareness, ultimately enhancing your connection with your horse.

Mindset Shift: Unlock Equestrian Potential at Any Age

Learn a mindset shift that can help you improve your movement, flexibility and balance at any age. 

You'll hear about how the Feldenkrais MethodⓇ can develop your inner authority and your "biological optimism," which highlights the potential for improvement that feels effortless and unlimited. 

Sensitive Horses: Building Trust and Connection 

Have you ever wondered how to transform a sensitive, easily spooked, or defensive horse into a confident and relaxed partner?

Hear about specific cases where observing subtle cues and applying gentle, supportive touch made a significant difference in a horse's emotional and physical well-being.

Transforming Horse Training: Building Partnership and Mutual Respect 

Curious about how to make horse training more enjoyable?

Mary Debono reveals how on the Easier Movement, Happier Horses podcast.

Embrace compassionate curiosity and create a true partnership with your horse.

Body Awareness Breakthrough: Are You Sabotaging Yourself (and Your Horse)?

Want to ride smarter? Learn to use your body parts independently for better coordination & harmony with your horse.

Join Mary Debono on the latest Easier Movement, Happier Horses episode!

Why You and Your Horse Don't Need Fixing  

Are there things about yourself or your horse that you'd like to fix? 

In this episode, I challenge the notion that you or your horse needs fixing.

Instead, we embrace a holistic approach that works in harmony with the nervous system, fostering better movement options and deeper connections with our horses.

The Surprising Benefits of Movement Improvement

Beyond better performance, learn how improved movement can boost confidence, reduce anxiety, and create a deeper connection between you and your horse.

Discover ways to make saddling up a positive experience and explore a holistic approach to movement that unlocks a happier you and a happier horse.

Why You Should Think Twice Before Pulling on Your Horse’s Tail

Did you know that you can cause more HARM than good by pulling on your horse's tail? In this episode, I discuss what I do INSTEAD of doing a "tail traction." I go into the importance of preparing the whole horse to lengthen the spine, resulting in healthier, more comfortable and coordinated movement. Have a listen!   

Injured and Can't Ride? Here's What You Can Do to Improve

Injury keeping you out of the saddle?

Learn about mindful movement, mental training and creative ground exercises.

Use your recovery time to deepen your connection with your horse and come back to riding even stronger than before! 

Laid Up Horse? Here's How to Make the Most of It

Horse sidelined with an injury? Don't despair!

You can turn stall rest and handwalking into bonding time. Learn mindful movement, Connected Breathing & "wrong side" leading to deepen your connection and improve your horsemanship skills. Discover how to transform setbacks into breakthroughs!

Do You Have Unrealistic Expectations for Your Horse?

Learn the importance of treating your horse as an individual and finding mutually enjoyable and suitable activities for you and your horse based on each of your unique needs.

You can compassionately work with your equine partner while building a harmonious partnership.

How to Work with a Horse Who Moves Away from Your Touch

Maybe you’re learning a new form of bodywork and you can’t wait to use it to help your horse. But your horse says, “No thanks!”

In this episode, you'll hear about the strategies I use to help horses relax, enjoy and benefit from hands-on work.  

Are You Addicted to Struggling with Your Horse?

Do you HAVE to try so hard? Or is it a habit? A compulsion? For many of us, we're so used to trying hard, to struggling, that we forget that things could feel easier for us and our horses. This episode discusses the common "addiction" to struggling with horses and its negative impact on the horse-human relationship.

Release Tension and Increase Flexibility by Rocking Your Horse

Rocking your horse can have positive effects on horse's muscles, nervous system, and overall movement. Rocking should be done with lightness, effortlessness, and pleasure for both horse and rider. Being well-organized and coordinated is important for effective communication with the horse.

This is Key to Rounding Your Horse's Back 

Did you know that your horse’s sternum plays a key role in helping your horse round the back easily? While the sternum and ribs are often overlooked when talking about the back, you'll hear why the rib cage plays a key role in reducing stress and wear and tear on the horse’s back, neck and legs.

Girthy Horse? You'll Want to Hear This 

Here's a different take on helping transform girthy horses. Mary shares her unique strategy that makes tacking up a positive experience that not ONLY can be pleasurable for you and your horse, but can be an opportunity to improve body awareness, flexibility and coordination for you both! 

The Surprising Key to Freer Hips 

Wish your hips were more flexible or comfortable? Learn why the Feldenkrais MethodⓇ is different from stretching and strengthening programs. To improve your hips, explore this holistic, whole-body approach to movement, so you AND your horse can experience more comfort, elegance, athleticism and harmony.

Enhancing Flexibility, Balance and Strength at Any Age 

Learn why the Feldenkrais MethodⓇ is gaining in popularity among equestrians. This innovative approach can improve your flexibility, balance and strength. And it can feel almost effortless. 

A Simple Way to Improve Body Awareness

Ready to improve your body awareness? Let me guide you through a transformative body scan designed to enhance your body awareness and melt away tension from body and mind. Your horse will thank you. 

Tiny Steps, Big Results: Mastering Movement Through Small Actions

Would you like to be more supple, balanced and strong? Would you like to improve your horse's movement too? Learn why simply repeating movements won't help, and can actually make things worse!

Unlocking Your Potential: The Four Pillars of Healthy Movement 

In this episode, you'll discover how to use the 4 pillars of healthy movement to improve your athletic ability and be a better partner for your horse.

Learn Practical Strategies to Cultivate Awareness and Release Tension 

Learn how unnecessary effort causes most human and equine movement difficulties. Discover how to enjoy greater ease, harmony, and vitality in your life and your equine partnerships.

Are You Crooked? Tips for Overcoming Uneven Seat Bones

Uneven seat bones are a common issue for riders, affecting balance, confidence and often causing pain and stiffness.

It also impacts the horse's body and behavior.

Detecting Imbalances: What You Can Learn from Listening to Your Horse's Footfalls

Listening to your horse's footfalls can help you detect imbalances in your horse's movement, helping to prevent them from turning into more serious problems.

4 Elements of Healthy Movement - Do You and Your Horse Have Them?

Want movement to be easier and more elegant? 

Learn about 4 key essentials of healthy, effortless movement for you and your horse. And how you and your horse can feel better and more easier. Together.

Mindful Movements: True Flexibility for You and Your Horse

Learn how flexibility of body and mind can be a solution to common equestrian challenges.

Discover how it can enhance the performance, confidence and connection of you and your horse.

An Exercise to Develop Feel and Improve Your Connection with Your Horse

Feel begins with being aware of your own body and movements. Here's an effective exercise that can help you become more sensitive to yourself AND your horse. 

Body Awareness and Emotional Well-Being: The Benefits of Touching Your Horse

Develop your ability to tune in to your horse and promote a centered and focused mindset for you and your horse, fostering a deeper connection 

Reshape Your Self-Image to Move with Ease, Elegance and Balance 

If you want to improve how you move and feel, change your identity. The Feldenkrais Method® can help you develop a more balanced, athletic, resourceful identity. 

Secrets to Moving Effortlessly at Any Age

Discover how you can break down movement into small pieces so you can develop the ability to move with ease and comfort, despite aging or injuries. 

This same approach can be used to help your horse move more athletically and comfortably too! 

Connection, Not Correction: The Key to Improvement for You and Your Horse

Want a kinder, more mindful alternative to improving performance?

This approach also enhances body awareness and elevates your relationship with your horse. Learn how to create effortless improvement!

A Better Way to Improve Shoulder Movement

This episode will introduce a novel way to improve shoulder movement in you and your horse.  And it's all about working with the rib cage!

Learn a secret to unlocking freer, healthier movement in you and your horse.

Stubborn No More: Unlock Your Horse's Enthusiasm by Matching Movement

Leading can be a fun way to connect with your horse and have an enthusiastic partner.

Done mindfully, leading can refine your communication, improve movement and elevate your relationship.

Simple Haltering Changes to Improve the Relationship with Your Horse 

Why You Should Lead Your Horse From the Wrong Side   

A Common Cause of Back Pain in Horses and Humans  

Dissolve Your Anxiety in Minutes 

Here's a quick, sure-fire way to tame your anxiety. It's a simple, powerful exercise to help you feel happier and more confident. 

Whether you are stressed about your horse, your job or anything else, you can stop your "worry habit" in its tracks and maximize your joy and resourcefulness instead.

Help Your Horse Feel Better About Anything

Whether you want to improve your horse's athletic performance, confidence or comfort, there's a KEY step you need. 

In this episode, you'll learn all about this key ingredient.  And all the benefits you and your horse can experience from it! 

Using Everyday Situations to Build Trust with Your Horse

This episode explores what to do when your horse expresses displeasure when blanketed, groomed or tacked up.

You'll learn how certain responses can damage your relationship with your horse. While other responses develop your communication and build trust. 

Movements that Make You Happier and Healthier   

Want to move with greater ease AND be happier too?

Feldenkrais Method movements not only help improve posture, flexibility and balance, but may help you cultivate greater happiness, optimism and well-being too.

What You Believe About Exercise is Wrong  

What if I told you that your exercise habits could be increasing your risk of strain, stiffness and plain old boredom?

Learn what key elements you can add to your movement program to make it healthier and more effective. And even more interesting. You can apply these elements to your horse too! 
 

Going to Your Limit Can Limit You 

You've probably have heard that if you want to improve, you have to push beyond your comfort zone. You're encouraged to go to your maximum, to develop more willpower.

In this episode, learn when it's more effective to stay WITHIN your range of ease and comfort. And how you can use this mindful approach to improve your horse's performance too! 

Improve Your Movement by Changing How You Initiate It 

You can develop better body awareness and coordination by pausing and changing the very BEGINNING of a movement. In this episode you'll learn how to apply this to any movement, including riding, leading your horse, walking or any other movement.   

How Limiting Beliefs Keep You Stuck 

Do you think you lack the talent, opportunity or confidence to ride better? Do you think your horse is too stiff, spooky or lazy?

In this short episode, you'll get action steps that will help you dismiss limiting beliefs from your mind. So you can create the life you want!      

Gratitude From the Trenches

In this episode, Mary shares inspiring thoughts from members of her Happy, Healthy Horsewomen community.

You'll hear what they learned from their horses. And how their horses gently (and sometimes not so gently!) pointed out where and how they could improve.

What Type of Horse Person Are You?

Do you want more flexible hips? Or do you wish you were more balanced, relaxed and confident in the saddle? 

In this episode you’ll learn why identifying the type of horse person you are, at your CORE, will align your intentions with your actions and allow you to reach your equine goals and dreams.  

These 3 Question Help You Reach Your Goals

Learn 3 questions that'll transform your mindset and help you reach your equestrian goals. You'll get clear on what you really want.       

Then You'll learn how to harness the power of your brain to challenge your so-called limitations and start creating the reality where your dreams DO come true!

The Final 2 Keys to Unlock Your Horse’s Superpowers

The FINAL 2keys! You'll hear how you can release your limiting beliefs that may be holding your horse back.

And how to use novel experiences to get the attention of your horse's brain. And how this newfound attention can create fresh, exciting possibilities for how you and your horse move and feel.

The 4^th and 5^th Keys to Unlock Your Horse's Superpowers

This episode explores the 4th and 5th keys to Unlocking Your Horse's Superpowers. Learn how to release tension and develop FEEL, which is one of the most important skills to have as a horse person. You'll learn how to lay the foundation for easier, healthier ways for you and your horse to move together.

The 2^nd and 3^rd Keys to Unlock Your Horse's Superpowers

There are 7 key things to enhance your horse's body and mind. I call this improvement Unlocking Your Horse's Superpowers. This episode will explore the 2^nd and 3^rd keys. You'll learn how to start helping you and your horse move easier and feel better while you deepen your connection. Don't miss it!

The First Key to Unlock Your Horse’s Superpowers

There are 7 key things to enhance your horse's body and mind. I call this improvementUnlocking Your Horse's Superpowers. This episode will explore the first key. You'll learn how to start helping you and your horse move easier and feel better while you deepen your connection. Don't miss it!

Why Your Horse Cares How You Dress

Not the KIND of clothes you wear. HOW you dress. Learn why the way you put your shirt or pants on can create an unbalanced seat, a leg that creeps up, and even pain in your back, neck and shoulders. And discover what to do instead!

How Relaxation Creates Healthy Movement in You and Your Horse

Want to get rid of a common cause of stiffness, soreness and fatigue? In this episode, you’ll learn a NEW way to use relaxation to improve suppleness, generate more power, and enhance well-being. And t his works for you and your horse!

Change Yourself, Change Your Horse

What do you do when your horse feels stiff or resistant? Do you use stronger aids? In this episode, you’ll learn how to turn the focus off your horse and onto YOU. Many excellent riders do this intuitively. Learn how to get started here

What Do You Feel When You Touch Your Horse?

I’ll give you a simple, powerful exercise you can do to improve your feel. And with your improved feel, your hands will naturally pick up more information about your horse. You may even sense WHY your horse is stiff, resistant or sore..

Get Rid of Limiting Beliefs

Are you sabotaging yourself with negative self - talk ? Do you want more confidence, success and joy with your horse? This simple solution can transform your limiting beliefs into ones that help you get you want you want.

How to Communicate with Your Horse

Tired of trying to force your horse to l i s ten to you? L earn simple body/mind tools that ’ll help you understand your horse better and develop a deeper connection . You ’ll both feel better and move easier too !

Are You Designing Your Future? Or Recreating Your Past?

Learn a simple strategy that can jumpstart your creativity and help you design a more joyful, satisfying life for you and your horse. And if you don’t think you’re a “creative person,” be prepared to become one!

Goals vs Results: Why the Difference Matters

There’s a big difference between achieving a goal and getting the RESULT that you want. A simple mindset shift can help you get the satisfying outcome you dreamed of.

How to Move with Your Horse

Did you know that your horse is included in your brain’s “body map?” If horses are an important part of your life, your brain has most probably mapped your horse in your brain.

Better Than Intuition

Wouldn’t it be great to ride and handle your horse with ease and natural feel? And to intuitively know what your horse was thinking and feeling? In this episode, you’ll learn how tapping into your own body and mind can help you understand your horse more.

How to Make Better Decisions for Your Horse

Tuning into your sensations will guide you to make decisions to benefit your horse. Learn why staying true to your values is essential to creating a joyful connection with your horse.