We offer a limited number of spots each week to ensure personalised experiences and quality interactions with our herd of horses within our liberty curriculum. Whether you're looking for personal growth, competitive training or simply the joy of riding with a community of amazing souls, we have a place for you. Keep reading to see what we will cover each week in this Intensive course. Then choose to join us once or twice per week with your horse (the one from our herd who has chosen you) and our supportive community and expert coach - note that sessions cover everything including catching, leading, tacking up, ground, drive/ride/Liberty, cool down, untack, after care. Choose time for YOU and spend quality time with our herd on days that work for your schedule.

You will have already had your assessment so YOUR Horse will be reserved and waiting for you. Be gifted your Personalised grooming kit, pop your belongings safely in one of our lockers and then learn safety around horses, catching a horse, haltering, leading through energy, grooming and connecting. Start setting your boundaries and set the tone for this 10 week course.

Catch your horse, groom, lead with energy and then learn all about friendly games (these games are based on how horses interact naturally with each other, so they feel familiar and fair to the horse - start to speak “horse”), respecting boundaries and how horses communicate using calming signals.

Build on the previous week by practicing these skills and then moving on to learning yields through rhythmic pressure and how to nurture a relationship with fluid, relaxed and cooperation whilst offering a safe space of predictability with clear communication, movement, connection, positive reinforcement, emotional regulation, biomechanics, balance and empathy.

Recap and practice all skills learnt in previous weeks and then learn yields using steady pressure. Learn how to provide an environment of predictability and safety for a horse with clear communication, understanding, positive reinforcement, stress reduction techniques, empowerment, trust, patience, incremental learning, physical and mental relaxation.

Practice all skills learnt the previous week and then move on to boundary setting through intention and the use of energy creating a dialogue of pressure and release through minimal cues, respect and communication. This week focuses on mental and emotional training tools for emotional regulation.

Practice all the learnings of the last weeks and add in another important piece of the puzzle: How to request cooperation, focus and trust at a distance from a horse. Focusing on how to use a horse’s natural herding instincts to support safety and calm. Explore how your body language supports from a distance and apply the subtle cues that you have been working on across this course. This will be your final week without saddles if ridden and you will then graduate to join us on a level 2 the following week. However we go at your speed and support you to understand all aspects of our liberty foundations.

This week we will saddle up (or for liberty we will be taking off the ropes) and do all our groundwork as well as practice all the other skills that you have learnt. We will now start our checks to see if the horse is ready to be ridden or feels safe to stay with us at liberty by doing the exercises to gauge whether the horse is calm, focused, and mentally engaged. These will help you identify any physical discomfort or emotional tension. This practice ensures that the horse is ready to work safely and effectively, both on the ground and in the saddle.

We will go over everything learnt so far, check in for any discomfort and emotional tension so as to work safely and then check in for lightness in the reins cues from the ground. This will work on the horse’s willingness to listen to commands whilst in the saddle or at liberty or with a cart and demonstrate the level of trust the horse is willing to give to the rider. Should everything go well, we will request climbing into the saddle, start of liberty or long reining for driving and respect the horse’s yes or no.

We will practice all we have learnt. We will work with you and the horse to make sure that the trust you have built is taken into the saddle, to the Long rein or to liberty play. We will work on staying in the moment and work through anything that the horse mirrors. We will then work through their cues and our intention whilst supporting the horse’s point of view.

We will practice all we have learnt and continue working on keeping the aids as subtle as possible through energy only and breathwork.

This course will set you up to join one of our level 3+ groups next term.