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Directing the Les Ayguades equestrian center in Gruissan, Emmanuelle Céréso, also a member of the Bureau and the steering committee of the Occitanie Regional Equestrian Committee, describes her conception of a modern approach to horse riding in a book published on behalf of author.
Emmanuelle Céréso knows horses. She was born and raised in the Les Ayguades equestrian center, created by her grandfather at the time when the seaside resort and port were emerging. She took her first steps there with ponies and, at the age when people like cycling or scootering, she favored horses.
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When the time came to succeed her grandfather at the head of the structure, she trained as a traditional riding instructor and completed it with a diploma in social psychology. Here she is ready to take the reins, determined to give the center a new dynamic enriched with modernism. Because already as a teenager, she had noticed that very often, a lack of communication between the rider and his mount, or at least a lack of consideration of the animal’s morals and moods, hindered the smooth running of the session. and to the pleasure of the tandem. And she tries to remedy this by applying new methods: “Non-verbal communication with an energy bubble and we deploy each other”.
Communicate better
With more than 20 years of professional practice “and 33 years of observations”, she decided to share her thoughts in a self-published book. Released last spring, “Horse riding beyond conventions” is a manual of good conduct both for instructors and for riders who wish to create a bond and good communication with the horse, and for anyone who likes animals and wonders how they work.
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“It takes up animal behavior, how to understand it, respect its well-being and its comfort zone. We tend to exploit it for sporting, leisure use, etc. At no time do we have a connection that is done with him while a real discussion can be established. There are two parallel worlds, so it was a duty to write this book,” she explains.
In less than 100 pages, it provides keys to better communication between humans and animals, while respecting each person’s bodily bubbles. She applies these methods every day in her center where 70 horses flourish, “local breeds which function in the environment of the Clape massif and its Mediterranean temperatures”, which take part in discovery walks but are also actors of a riding school and equine therapy sessions.
