HORSERIDERS can get help to overcome injuries from a new edition of an old favourite.

The second edition of BodySense: Revolutionize Your Riding with the Alexander Technique is now available in hardback with diagrams and photos to illustrate the text.

The book by Sally Tottle, which was first published in 1998, aims to provide the reader with information to become more aware of the use and misuse of the mind and body, not only as a rider but also in everyday life.

Sally, who lives in Herefordshire, currently teaches the Alexander Technique at the Monmouth Natural Health Centre and at the Sue Adams Riding School, Shobdon.

But her development of BodySense courses has taken her to America, Australia, Estonia, Finland, Spain, Kenya and Ireland, as well as around the UK.

Sally started riding at the age of seven and this was her great passion.

But her riding was curtailed when she suffered spinal injury and was faced with the prospect of an operation.

Before embarking on that road she was introduced to Daniel Pevsner, a fellow of the British Horse Society, who taught her about the Alexander Technique including how to move without compressing the muscles around her injuries so she could ride again.

Sally was so impressed by this technique, she took a three year course to become a registered STAT teacher and qualified in 1988.

In addition to horseriders, Sally has also applied the Alexander Technique to musicians, golfers and motorists who have experienced pain.

Copies of the book are priced £19.99.