Riding with Chi: Your Pathway to Energy Mastery is a 2-Disc DVD set released on August 12, 2009. We are so pleased with the tremendous reviews (read on the DVD review page) that have started to come in. You can buy your copy on www.FilmBaby.com , www.TheHorseStudio.com , www.ridemagazine.com, www.HorseCity.com, and www.patiencetaichi.com. Watch for our ads in  Western Horseman and Dressage Today  - until then not too many people know about us...so help us spread the word by telling a friend. Follow us on Twitter.

The Chinese character chi represents the life-process or energy flow that sustains all living things. In Chinese culture, the practice of Tai Chi and Qi Gong (chee kung) evolved, in part, as a way of enhancing the flow of chi within the human body. In Riding with Chi, the elements of efficient energy flow—low breathing, relaxation, spinal alignment, and balance—are discussed and demonstrated in terms of these exercises and their application to the rider’s position. Riding with Chi teaches several short, easy-to-follow Tai Chi–style and Qi Gong routines.

You will learn to relieve facial tension, lower and increase your breath, relax and supple your body, and achieve a stable and balanced position while in motion, as on a horse. Once you learn to feel energy flow within your own body, you will feel it within your horse as well, opening a pathway for extraordinary communication between horse and rider.

Over time, energy mastery will bring grace and sophistication to your riding position as it becomes apparent how a fusion between relaxation and energy flow forms the foundation for balance in motion—for both horse and rider.

Three experts have come together to bring you this unique program:

• Patricia Norcia owns a dressage training facility in Connecticut and has taught breathing classes at major universities.
• US- and Asian-trained David Ritchie owns and operates a school for Tai Chi Ch’uan and Qi Gong instruction in Connecticut.
• Mark Russell, author of Lessons in Lightness, owns a training facility in Tennessee and gives clinics across the country.

Mission Statement

To bring artful and in-depth learning programs to the equestrian community through Mouse Hole Farm Productions. In support of “riding in lightness,” MouseHoleFarm.com is dedicated to actively advancing the concept of lightness through an understanding and practice of tai chi and qi gong exercises and principles of energy flow by providing information, instruction, and an interactive forum for equestrians to share ideas and experiences.

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Welcome HorseCity.com as a new retailer for Riding with Chi

Notice to all CHA members: Use your discount code on www.FilmBaby.com...Read info on the CHA members page under the DVD tab for Riding with Chi (above).

Thank you Patience Tai Chi http://www.patiencetaichi.com/ for your endorsement of Riding with Chi...and carrying the DVD on your website.

Thanks goes out to the riders that came out to Tai Chi day and to those who purchased Riding with Chi. Enjoy the program. 

Come out to the Town Beach, Waterford, CT 10am to 5pm on Saturday, April 24, 2010 for World Tai Chi and Qi Gong Day . David Ritchie will demonstrate the exercises that will help you ride better the next time you get in the saddle...and it's FREE! Great way to spend a spring day.

Riding with Chi is now available at the Ride! Magazine on-line store. Thanks for the great review.

Thank you Dressage Today for naming Riding with Chi in the spotlight of new products in your January, 2010 Emporium!

Mouse Hole Farms Productions announces giving back to the horse through contributions to various charities in each country where Riding with Chi sells. Donations start immediately, but give us time to completely document our policy and open a page on this site for you to track our donations. We have already pledged to The Wounded Warrior Project in support of the men and women in the US military and add the following equine charities on top of that:

$3 from each DVD sold in Ireland will be donated to the Irish Horse Welfare Fund.

$3 from each DVD sold in USA will be donated to In Defense of Animals organization.

$3 from each DVD sold in New Zealand donated to the Auckland SPCA Horse Welfare.

$3 from each DVDsold in South Africa donated to the Highveld Horse Care Unit.

More info to follow.

We are now listed on the Top Equestrian Sites website - Check it out at the ICON on the bottom of this page. 

All of us at Mouse Hole Farm send out warm wishes for a Happy New Year and may you be Riding with Chi throughout 2010! We want to thank everyone for making 2009 such a wonderful experience..new friends and new doors open each and every day. You can now follow us on Twitter (see icon at the bottom of this page). Thank you again for your support.

For those of you in the central CT area, listen to our radio interview on The Mary Jones Show on Saturday, December, 19th at 1:30PM. This is 1470 on the AM dial - not sure if it is webcast! Show will re-run at the same time on Sundy December 20th...for a limited time use coupon code maryjones for a 10% discount when buying Riding with Chi on www.FilmBaby.com.

Check out the new review from Redpin Publishing UK on our review page. This review will appear in several of their magazines in December. They are also printing the blog on breathing. We are so happy to have them write so impressively about the DVD. Thank You!!!

As a special thanks to website members we are running a special drawing to win "RWC" caps and shirts...for details see the current events page of this site.

Thanks goes out to Beval Saddlery for carrying Riding with Chi in all 3 of their stores in CT, NY, and NJ. 

 Riding with Chi will participate in gift packages given away at the USEF 2010 Dressage Festival of Champions at Gladstone, NJ in August, 2010 - thanking the volunteers for their time and support for this great event. 

Thanks go out for all the foreign sales of Riding with Chi... riders in Australia, New Zealand, and France have all purchased copies... we hope to gain exposure in the UK within the next few weeks. 

Thank you to Lisa Schmidt for recommending the Riding with Chi program. 

Thank you Durham Fair goers...I would like to thank all the folks who stopped by The Discovery Center at the Durham Fair to talk about Riding with Chi and watch a bit of the program. We joined the exhibit at the very last minute and are appreciative to the fair organizers for letting us participate with the other Connecticut farm and agri-businesses. 

Thanks to www.TheHorseStudio.com for their kind words in reviewing Riding with Chi. It is so rewarding, after working on a project for so long, to have it received in the way we intended. If you haven't been on The Horse Studio site yet, we encourage everyone to take a look at what they have to offer. It is quickly apparent how much time and effort they put into gathering quality products for a great shopping experience.