Liberty Development Program
Our trainer will jumpstart your horse on his liberty journey for you in a 3 day clinic while you and your friends audit. At the end you receive your first liberty lesson with your horse and a training plan to work on. Every week our trainer will give you feedback on a sent in video followed by a monthly live session.
This is designed to guide you and your horse to an independent liberty way-of-life.
The Jumpstart
3 consecutive sessions where your horse will work 1-on-1 with Malaika. The first day is a narrated roundpen session to open your horse up and check in with existing communication habits.
The second day she will introduce the liberty foundations to your horse and at the end of day three you will be called in to learn how to take it from here.
Video support
Learning about liberty is best done during practice when you have to rely on your own body language and power of observation. Experimenting is essential and done more naturally when you feel nobody is watching. However, during these sessions questions will still arise that is why we encourage you to send in videos to receive some guidance without interrupting your training flow.
Live sessions
Each month we will check in on where you and your horse are with the liberty training and teach you the next best step. In these 2h sessions we break things up in hands-on horse time and handler theory. The first few months will mostly be groundwork but after reaching certain efficiency in communicating through liberty we will progress into liberty riding as well.
Training ideology
Our aim is to create confident, curious horses that understand what we are asking and not just tolerate what we are making them do.
As a Native American husband and a European wife we really dove into cross training. We found a lot of value in studying opposite disciplines and created a method of our own that is a sweet combination of Western Performance Trainer, Clinton Anderson, Olympic Eventer and liberty enthusiast, Tik Maynard and Dutch liberty show woman Yvet Blokesch.
Our lesson program is for those who seek a long term plan. If you’re hoping to become an independent and self sufficient horseman it will take time, patience and love and we are here to guide you. We will dive into the horse psychology, learn how to observe and read your equine partner and how to build a fair, two-way communication street. These fundamental skills will help you find what motivates you and your horse and how to turn your relationship into a playful partnership.
Our core values come from Tik Maynards building blocks to a healthy relationship with your horse.
Observation
In order to communicate you have to be able to recognize the equine language. During the observation phase we teach you how to read your horse. Together we will discover where your horse feels confident and where he needs to build more and same for you!
Communication
When you feel confident in reading your horse we move on to communication. We will teach you how to use your own body language to speak in their native tongue. Body position, mental state and clarity are the main focus during this phase.
Motivation
We know what we get out of it when we ask a horse to do something.. but what do they get out of it? During the motivation phase we dive into relaxation, motivation and excitement to enhance the appeal for your horse to work with you.
Play
My favorite phase! This is where you and your horse really connect, confidently read each other and the liberty fun can begin! By this time the three previous phases are installed enough to become so what of a habit and that allows you to let go of it all. This is where we help you create your own style, your own exercises and we guide you and your horse to a fulfilling relationship that will stay the same in any situation, surrounding or scenario.
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