A troubled teenager finds healing in the most unlikely of places, and has to choose to accept her recovery or succumb to the trauma of her past.
When a daughter tries to reestablish a relationship with her estranged father after the death of her mother in the 9/11 attacks, she forms a bond with a horse that has gone through its own loss.
Announcer, Television Broadcaster, and Author, Frank Waters, writes about "The Golden Age Of Show Jumping" when riders and their horses were as famous as movie stars. The excitement of a young boy becoming part of the sport and eventually growing up to become a rider himself.
The Walsh family finds their lives turned upside down when their street-hardened teenage niece, Summer, is sent to live with the family after her mother is arrested. Rules, respect, and faith have been missing from Summer's life, but caring for the horses, gives her something that's been lacking - a connection to a living thing that relies on her attention. When one of the horses falls ill, the Walsh's must make the difficult decision to use their dwindling savings to save it. Summer tries to help the only way she knows how, a move that threatens to tear the family and community apart.
Within riding exists a fundamental conflict of interest: The rider needs to have control--her confidence depends on her ability to control the balance of her own body as well as that of her very powerful horse. The horse, by nature, needs to feel free--free in both mind and body to express himself through physical movement. In WHEN TWO SPINES ALIGN--DRESSAGE DYNAMICS author Beth Baumert, writer and editor at the internationally recognized equestrian magazine Dressage Today, resolves the freedom-control enigma by taking a close look at the individual components that make up riding and dressage and providing practical ways riders can learn to harness the balance, energies, and forces at play. Readers will discover how to use "positive tension" and their body's "power lines" to become balanc...
A teenage neighbor (Anna Claire Sneed) convinces an injured horseman (Luke Perry) that his champion Paso Fino horse can still compete.