Connected Riding with Peggy Cummings

Peggy: My definition of connection with the horse means that I want the horse
to have a weight bearing posture,which means that he carries as much as possible,
even weight on all four legs.

So that he uses a more symmetrically
going left or right,and that he can use his back and his spine and have freedom in his limbs.

So connection happens when the horse can ark.
I'm using the word arc to say instead of using bend, okay, arc his body and find within himself
the ability to shift his weight dynamically, to push his body around that arc.

In other words, a circle from the back to the front so that whoever is at his head can feel the energy coming through
and that in a change of direction, he doesn't lose his body parts and suck back or lift his head or drop his back or drop a hind leg
and that he can equally move in one direction and the other, calling his loins and using them. So because at this point,
the thoracic sling and this horse will efficiently if the horse is on the forehand,he's not connected back the foot.

If he's being being ridden and gadgets, he cannot connect back to front.

And when a horse loses,when he can't move his limbs with freedom and uses release his head and neck,
move it left and right with ease,he becomes more sided, in other words, more crooked.
And we have to work on getting him balanced equally in both directions rather than fixing this.

The side, the sidedness gets sorted out.
If you get the horse softening and asking his body in both directions.