Learn to ride and train your horse effortlessly.
Riding with force is easy. You just put a Pelham or Pessoa bit on, some spurs and a whip and you’re good to go. In fact many equestrians like to choose the easy way.
The truth is, you can choose to ride with connection, and still get the collection from the horse. You see horses they really crave that bond with their rider, and when you bring force into the relationship, there is no longer any connection, as your horse knows what can happen, as he sees a whip for example.
This is why every equestrian should start at the base, the ground. To connect with the earth, and feel centered, before they start approaching their horses. In this way the horse can sense your calm, and will choose to bond with you, and as it does, you have a true partner for life.
As a child I started riding at around 3 years old, then I went to riding school at 9 years old, and learned from my trainer that the horse is never at fault, the rider always is, and that has stuck with me since. I had an incredible trainer, who loved her horses unconditionally, and I had an incredible horse as a mentor, who taught me patience and kindness, and in return gave me his connection.
Between 9-10 years old I taught my horse, cause he became mine when I was 18, how to lay down, but it wasn’t me teaching him, we did it together, because we both wanted to experience what that was like, to think from a shared mind.
Then I learned how to ride without a bridle and saddle on my unforgettable Icelandic horse, and together we learned tricks. Which made us both known in the horse community.
Since then I have been training other people`s horses. I have been working for incredible trainers, and had some amazing horses myself.
It was my Spanish horse that taught me to love unconditionally. The importance of completely believing in one self, and how much it hurts to lose the one you love. I let another equestrian lend him for the summer, and he got attacked in the pasture, and she put him down. I grieved him for ten years, before I finally felt ready to get a new horse. He was the horse I sent to a trainer at 4, nearly 5 to put a saddle on him, however my stallion did not like the trainer, and he was able to sit on him, but not to steer him. So when we moved the reins, my horse would fall or rear. I accepted the challenge, to help him feel safe under rider, and he was incredible. He took everything so fast, and worked with me every step of the way. I am crying as I am writing this, because he was a horse that gave everything.