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Colleen Kelly 2010
Appearances:

PENNSYLVANIA
 Horse World Expo
Presenting and Judging
Pennsylvania, USA
February 25-28, 2010

MISSOURI, USA
Ozark Dressage Society
 March 6, 7 & 8, 2010
Email: Lisa and Marc
 Elsuenoespanol@aol.com

MARYLAND, USA
Caroll County Horse Expo
March 20-21, 2010

NORTH CAROLINA, USA
 Williamston NCDCTA Dressage
Competitions & Coaching
 March 26-28
 Email us for details

TENNESSEE
 April 2, 3 & 4, 2010
Email: polly@peachtreefarms.com

EQUINE AFFAIRE - OHIO
 Equine Affaire
April 8-11, 2010

JOSE MENDEZ
 IN THE USA!
Equine Affaire Ohio
Louisburg NC
Pinehurst NC
Cumberland VA
Maryland
Wilmington DE
 April 13 -25 2010
 
Grand Prix, In-Hand &
Haute Ecole Specialist
Details: clinics@colleenkelly.net

NORTH CAROLINA
 Pinehurst NCDCTA Dressage
Competing & coaching
May 7-9, 2010
 Email us for details

AUSTRALIA
 NSW–VIC–WA-SA
April-June 2010
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SOUTH AFRICA
 Johannesburg & Capetown
 July, 2010
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GREECE
 August, 2010
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UNITED KINGDOM
 NSW–VIC–WA-SA
 August, 2010
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Colleen Kelly at
WORLD EQUESTRIAN
GAMES
International Festival
Colleen Kelly is one of
only a handful of presenters
honored to be giving
15 presentations
throughout the festival
 Sept 25 – Oct 10, 2010
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EQUINE EXTRAVAGANZA
Virginia, USA
 Oct  2010
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Walking, treadmill & running

Your posture & balance could lead to a
lifetime of back & joint pain.
 

Be it on the treadmill, running on the football field, or the tremendous amount of walking around a farm, your posture & balance as you walk & run can make your movement easy and free, or the opposite, it could lead you to a lifetime of muscle & joint pain.

And, it's WORSE if you exercise.   You may be strengthening & muscle building a poor & lazy posture, pulling on muscles & joints in an incorrect way, and every day making your posture a little worse and a little worse.

So, starting at our head.  Here's some of the questions you can ask yourself about your posture:

 

Head Position

  1. Do you look down?

  2. Does your head kink off to one side...Is one earring lower than the other?

  3. If you had a runny nose, where would the nose dribble land? 
    Seriously...it is a wonderful measurement of how your hold your head, and funny enough for us to remember.
    A super martial artist or weight lifter will have their chests lifted, and their belly button would 'catch' the dribble, but, sadly most of us lean over & look down, and the nose dribble would land on the floor!

  4. A pupil might look down because they are shy.  Sometimes it actually takes 'intestinal fortitude' to walk through a crowd with your head high.   Open your eyes wide.  Be very careful where you look, looking down will lead to worse and worse posture & a lifetime of back & joint pain

Instructors:  the head position in any sport is vital.  Do not let your clients settle for looking down or kinked off to one side.  They must relax the tongue & jaw & breath easily while maintaining the old "book on the head" posture...(see our grandparents had it right all along!)

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