Sarah “Sally” Rodman Swift, the author and creator of Centered Riding, died on April 2. She was 95.

Ms. Swift was born on April 20, 1913, in Hingham, Mass. At the age of 7 she was diagnosed with scoliosis or lateral curvature of the spine. Her first physical therapist was Mabel Elsworth Todd, author of The Thinking Body, who helped her into her 20s. Todd encouraged Swift in her riding, which she’d started as a small child.