Connect with horses from the heart and train your horse in the Relationship based Art of Riding® from Liberty to Piaffe® via SPIRIT – MIND – BODY through a deep connection with the horse.

LIBERTY – IN HAND – BITLESS BALANCED RIDING with The Art of Lightness, – without traditional pressure and elease methods – Touch Connection® method.

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Relationship based Art of Riding® originates from an ancient work where the handling methods used were relationship-based and soft. These caring cultures gave rise to beauty, symmetry and divine connection which was the philosophy of Pythagoras which led to the creation of the teaching that would become classical horsemanship. Through this way there is no resistance. A habit is created in the horse's mind that encourages it to seek harmony with the rider. The horse seeks the rider's touch and follows it. The horse is free to express himself without consequences.

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​The relationship with the horse is the core of riding with thought transfer, feeling and lightness from the beginning. This is an education of the horse through a holistic way of working to achieve unity and consensus from the original holistic holistic view from ancient times.

 

This ancient time, goes back to Xenophon and provides the understanding, inspiration and origin of what came to be called classical horsemanship, academic riding and classical dressage, but this goes much deeper.

The training is relationship-based and is based on a deep relationship and authentic communication that is based on the relationship between mother and child.

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​In 2012/2013, Anneli learned this teaching from an old classical master and developed it in working with horses in riding. Through her work to first create authentic connection and communicate with horses free from the beginning through their authentic language and create deep bond through meditation, after studying wild horse communication. Her philosophy is without pressure- and release methods, dominance or consequences, she developed Touch meditation™ inspired by this teaching, which became the bridge to physical contact, sensitivity and development of the helpers with Feeling of Touch®.

 

​Through Liberty, Work in Hand and the Riding she developed, the idea is to achieve harmony and togetherness, where we do not base the training on scientific learning methods that are based on negative reinforcement in the form of pressure, discomfort, fear or pain, but work horses from the heart and let our love for the horse be our guide to togetherness and self-development. Anneli's philosophy is liberty-, relationship- and energy-based and rooted in a genuine relationship with the horse.

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​From Liberty to Bitless Balanced Riding™ is her education program where the horse's education is started free in the Herd Rituals® - The Language of Horses, like the natural rituals and instincts of wild horses. We achieve authentic connection, trust, respect, leadership, willingness, focus and the "magical" dance where the horse gives the dance freely from nothing more than a deep bond. It develops to balance and self-carriage. Then the aids are developed and used in the schooling of t classic movements as preparation for the art of riding, through ebergy, breath and Touch Connection®.

 

Through authentic connection, energy, feeling and balance, in bitless riding in balance, where your thought and energy are your primary aid, where riding is an invitation and to give the horse the space to respond and perform the movement in self-carriage.

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​Relationship Based Art of Riding® - From Liberty to Bitless Balanced Riding™ is a way of working with horses rooted in empathy and understanding. From a lifetime with horses, Anneli Westlund is the founder of an unique approach to liberty and horse whispering that stems from her studies in the authentic language of wild horses and herd behavior. The horse's education begins free at liberty from the beginning through freedom of choice, natural herd movements and a genuine relationship that develops a deep bond, trust and authentic leadership that the horse wants to follow.

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​This authentic communication is transformed into work in hand and bitless riding through presence, energy, feeling and balance from the inside out. It is a philosophy that awakens your true spirit and authentic self in riding through your energy, your mind and your breath. A way to connect with, be and breathe with horses.

 

With Anneli's many years of training with masters of old classical art of riding, it retains the classical principles, transformed into an energy-based riding with authentic connection from the heart, to the mind and soul.

With a sense of touch, a conscious approach and meditation in movement, your energy is your aid with riding as an invitation and to give space to the horse, where balance, healthy biomechanics and self-carriage arise through connection rather than coercion.

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​Mindful Riding™ - Ride Through the Breath™, which is energy-based and focuses on the rider through mindfulness riding. Through an authentic connection with the horse, presence, energy and spirituality, you ride through one thought and one breath at a time. In the home study program you will get exercises for you and your horse.