Cathy Reynolds is a career horseperson. She began her riding career at age nine, riding saddle seat on park (high-stepping saddle horses) Morgans. As a teen she got jobs as a working student and rode hunter jumpers and dressage horses, occasionally competing in shows. After taking a maternal break with her two children, Cathy studied therapeutic riding and has been double certified by the North American Riding for the Handicapped Association (NARHA) for regular and advanced disabilities. She is also certified as a yoga instructor by the AFIA. She lives in Vermont with her two children, two dogs, a cat, and her horse, Shenanigans. Learn more about Whoa-Ga at www.whoaga.com.

Few sports parallel each other in the way riding and yoga do. The "stillness in motion" of yoga equals the "effortless effort" of riding. What we learn in the yoga studio can easily be transferred to the saddle.

Balance is the biggest key to riding. Our horses feel and react to every move we make when we ride them, however subtly. Yoga teaches us how to recognize the unbalanced errors and correct them before we get on the horse.

Cathy Reynolds' new program uses the similarities of yoga and riding to connect students to themselves with body awareness and meditation, and to their horses with new balance.

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