CURRICULUM / WHAT IS IT? / WHAT DO YOU GET / TRAINING / PERSONAL VIEW

Curriculum:

Born in 1966, in Innsbruck, Austria.

Vocational Training:
¨ Qualified Trainer at Reitschule Vomperberg, Austria. (1987-1989).
¨ Head Trainer at the Swedish Herd of Horses, “Flyinge”, in Malmö, Sweden.
¨ Higher Level of Classical Horsemanship and Exercises on the Ground at the Spanish School of Classical Horsemanship in Lipizanos Lipica, Slovenia, Austria.
¨ Horse Psychology and Natural Horsemanship.
¨ Humanistic Psychology, Austria.

Work experience:
¨ Classical Horsemanship in Lipica, Slovenia.
¨ Head Trainer at the Herd of Horses “Skule”, Slovenia.
¨ Head Trainer at the Herd of Horses Alba, Spain.
¨ Treatment for badly treated and aggressive horses in Spain and Germany.
¨ Therapeutic work with horses for difficult teenagers. Social Project “Mosaik”, Spain.
¨ Natural Horsemanship and Classical Horsemanship Courses in Spain and Germany.

Activities:
¨ Natural Horsemanship Shows and Teaching.
¨ Treatment for difficult and phobic horses.
¨ Workshop. The horse and his owner: how to get a better and deeper relationship between the horse and his rider.
¨ Riding lessons: classical-natural horsemanship.
¨ Classical horsemanship lessons, non-sporting.
¨ Therapeutic work with horses for difficult teenagers (drug problems, problem families…). No previous experience with horses needed.
¨ Therapeutic work with horses as a mirror of your own personality (body language, natural horsemanship: meet the horses in freedom, without riding them). Individual sessions. No previous experience with horses needed.
¨ Natural Horsemanship lessons specially designed for people with problems such as fear, bad coordination, irritability, lack of concentration, lack of self-esteem and self confidence (riding and without riding). No previous experience with horses needed.

What is Communicative Horsemanship?

Communicative Horsemanship is based on a good knowledge of the natural laws that wild horses follow and therefore it pleases both their physical and psychological needs.

Communication between the horse and the trainer is done only through body language and dominant and defensive postures. With the body language and the different postures we imitate the “figure of the leader” in a herd of horses and this way we manage to get a steady and clear relationship between the person and the horse.

In Communicative Horsemanship there is no violence, we don’t want a submissive horse but we want to get its confidence and respect. By using the “horse” and the “leader mare” postures we manage to establish a clear hierarchy between the trainer and the horse. This way the horse finds “its place” and it can relax and rely on the trainer the same way it would do if it were with the herd. Like this the horse finds peace, security and protection… all good reasons to feel good and trust the owner and, as a consequence, willing to collaborate.

What do we get?

¨ Stable and trusting horses.
¨ Horses which are ready to work, collaborate and become good friends.
¨ Good health, both physical and psychological.
¨ Powerful and loose movements, without stiffness or muscular contractions.
¨ Horsemanship and gymnastics without forcing.
¨ More pleasure from both parts.

What type of trainings do we do?

¨ Starting young horses for the first time. ¨ Get a deeper relationship between the horse and the person. ¨ Treatment for badly-treated or badly trained horses. Ways to overcome old traumas. ¨ Treatment for difficult horses with problems such as not letting anybody lift their legs, shoe them and bad behaviours like kicking, biting, knocking down people, not wanting to be caught in paddocks or stables, not accepting to get into trailers and all kinds of other phobias. ¨ Preliminary gymnastics before riding: transitions, reduce the circle, walk backwards, pirouette while walking, shoulders-in… always giving the horse the possibility to balance its own body first before we do the same exercise riding on it.

My personal view

My main objective is to serve the horse.
I don’t mind how long it takes because I know that, in the end, trust and respect is always the fastest way.

(Foto: Photo, Spanish walk with loose reins)
 

What I do think is important is that the horse tells me the time it needs to take in and accept new tasks so that, later on, it doesn’t refuse to do what it has already learnt. I don’t believe in miracles and myths but on steady and peaceful work.

(Photo: Shoulders-in on the right in freedom)

                 ¡¡¡It’s a big pleasure...
                                                  ...to train horses without making them suffer!!!

(Photo: Free collection, ridden)

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