Achieve the Relationship and Riding Partnership of Your Dreams with Horses
Achieve the Relationship and Riding Partnership of Your Dreams with Horses
Dream Riding Partnership
Dream Riding Partnership
Join the revolution in relationship training - where the horse comes first!
My training program is for you if you're FINALLY ready to...
Connect
Real connection only happens when both parties are present, attuned and open to receiving connection.
That's why most "connection"
training doesn't work. It's really
about mechanics and coercion.
Learn how to connect with yourself
first and you will have the kind of
connection you need to work in
true harmony and consensual partnership with horses.
Feel Confident
Confidence isn't about mechanically controlling the situation.
Real confidence comes from a place of knowing, a sense of ease, that is combined with skill and experience.
Learn these three areas of your horsemanship and you're ready for anything life, and your horse,
throws your way.
Ride Safely
Being safe on the back of a horse comes down to relationship and nervous system regulation.
Develop these two skills in balance, and you will always be connected, feel confident, and be safe with your horse.
Sure, we need skill, technique, and good balance, but in the end, they won't keep your horse from bolting
or flipping out.
In the end, what keeps you safe is relationship and your horses self-regulation of their nervous system.
Create a calm, connected, consensual partnership with horses, without harsh methods, force, stress or submission.
Welcome to the Dream Riding Partnership Program™ (DRPP).
There are many reasons why the DRPP works for all horses. For starters, it teaches you how to assess your horse first so you can meet them where they are.
This is so important to developing the level of trust and safety horses need to connect, engage, desire deep and meaningful relationships and working partnerships with us.
While the program follows a thorough, comprehensive, and progressive (step-by-step) curriculum, its holistic lens and approach personalize the learning experience for you and your horse.
In addition, it teaches you how to become a diagnostician, a problem solver and most of all a compassionate horse listener and partner for your horse.
This is why our program is effective for horses and people. It shows you how to motivate your horse to strive for more through intimate, positive, and collaborative learning experiences.
It doesn't matter where you are on your journey, your level of experience, or your age. The program is designed to work for every horse and equestrian, empowering you to reach the relationship and riding partnership of your dreams together every step of the way.
3 Pillars of Training
The Dream Riding Partnership Program™ offers a clear and effective path for all horses and equestrians.
It achieves this through its comprehensive and in-depth education, combining a holistic approach with emerging science and classical horsemanship. Combined, these teachings create the relationship,
ground and riding foundation needed to develop you and your horse together
in true partnership, naturally, easily, and harmoniously.
Holism
Feel and Think as One™
Holism is about considering the whole horse and rider - the emotional, mental, physical and spiritual aspects of well-being, balance and happiness.
Holism teaches you how to be a horse listener so you can read, understand and assess your horse's well-being in every interaction and training.
Science
Where Evidence Supports Data
The #1 rule to developing horses is regulation. An unregulated horse is a disconnected horse - in heart, mind and body.
The program provides advanced knowledge in the science of movement, behavioral research and neuroscience, providing you with a comprehensive education in equine behavior, psychology, instincts and physiology.
Classical Training
Ride as One™
Develop the level of riding partnership with your horse where you feel as one,
think as one and move as one.
The program merges natural horsemanship, biomechanics, and classical training with a
holistic approach to developing, training, re-training and refining horses.
Upon full payment, you receive immediate access to everything,
and a personal email from Caroline inviting you to schedule
an introduction and walk-through.
The Dream Riding Partnership Program™ offers it all.
The program will take you and your horse on a journey that will profoundly transform your relationship, partnership, and training forever.
For over 25 years, Caroline has brought her highly successful methods to thousands of horses and people from varying disciplines and backgrounds, helping them achieve the relationship and riding partnership of their dreams with horses.
What separates her experience from most professional trainers is her holistic, and natural work with wild horses, traumatized horses and her foundation training.
Very few professional trainers know wild horses, let alone have rehabilitated horses and then given them a ground and riding foundation without stress, force, submission or pain.
But Caroline has, and it's been her mission to educate horse owners, trainers, and other leading equine professionals about the value of working with horses holistically and naturally.
Until you know how to work with horses this way, you're still forcing a horse to submit and stressing their nervous systems to the point of learned helplessness.
Working with wild horses is like working with an untainted, unhandled foal. They are a clean slate; everything they do is emotionally regulated, natural, healthy, and honest.
Until we get our hands on them.
In Caroline's experience, 98% of our domesticated horses are damaged on some level. This is because our training industry teaches us the wrong way to train, re-train, and handle horses.
Instead of working with the horse's nature, needs, and instincts, we've been taught to work against them, forcing them to comply with our industry standards as machines, not sentient beings.
Damaged horses are emotionally dysregulated from too much stress, pressure, mechanics, and repetition. They can no longer think for themselves, connect, or focus on us or the work. This is why they need rehabilitation before training, to regulate their damaged nervous system.
This is where 98% of you are. Your horse's nervous systems are dysregulated on some level. That's why you're experiencing what you are experiencing.
This means if your horse is one or more of the following, they are dysregulated: can't focus or connect, can't stand still, restless, reactive, spooky, tense, dull, hard to catch, doesn't like to be touched, bites, kicks, stressed with vets, farriers, new environments, change, tense under saddle, pushes through contact, avoids aids, bucks, rears, bolts, tosses its head, jigs on the trail, doesn't do well with other horses, can't socialize, food aggressive, aggressive, shuts down, unconfident - afraid and can't learn new things.
And what about you? Do you fear riding, handling or feel disconnected from your horse? Maybe you feel lost in your horsemanship and don't know where to begin developing the relationship and riding partnership. Or perhaps you want more skills, deeper connection, and better riding, but you need to learn how to refine and need a personalized roadmap to help you reach your and your horse's potential.
You're in the Beste place!
The Dream Riding Partnership (DRPP) is designed to help horses and equestrians, wherever they are,
reach their potential together, with love, leadership and ease.
It achieves this by teaching you how to work with your horse, not against them, so you can meet them where they need to be met, reset their nervous system so they can regulate, connect and trust you while developing them into confident learners and partners.
This why the program is 100% effective.
The holistic approach it what allows you to customize the experience with your horse, so you learn what they need as individuals, learners, and partners during training.
If you value your horse and revere them as a sentient being, you must meet them where they need to be met at all times. This is how you avoid forcing, making, fighting and stress.
This is the secret to Caroline's fantastic success with horses and why her program can take any horse and equestrian and develop them completely from the inside out, rehab to recovery, ground to riding, start to finish, beginner to pro.
While you're developing your horse, you will learn how to work with your horse's nature, needs, and natural agility so you can keep them sound at all times in mind, body and spirit.
This means you will learn how to develop yourself, your horsemanship, and your horse together (at the same time) using a holistic approach, the latest science and classical training — to 2nd-level dressage, bitless, and bareback if you choose, without compromising your horse during the process.
In addition, the program offers a comprehensive study of horse care, management, handling, training, and re-training, emphasizing connection, communication, feel and timing, correct biomechanics, technique, the equine nervous system, and working in true, consensual partnership.
Caroline infuses her classical training throughout the in-hand, lunging, and riding lessons. Her trained eye teaches you how to develop your and your horse's movement through biomechanics and calisthenics.
This is how Caroline teaches you to embody your horse's movement on the ground first so you can
transfer that connection to riding and Ride as One™.
You will also gain advanced knowledge in the science of movement, behavioral research, the equine nervous system, and neuroscience. Thus you will gain a comprehensive education in equine behavior, psychology, instincts, and physiology.
It's that comprehensive; it covers it all.
What Students Are Saying
Short (Reel) student testimonies
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Ariela testimonial - other trainers and Caroline teaches what she preaches - Copy
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Arelis - Relationship and personal growth (immersion)
8 Principles of Foundation
Creating a relationship and riding foundation that will last forever.
The program's training system consists of eight powerful and proven principles designed to develop a solid, well-rounded, connected relationship, ground, and riding foundation. These areas not only outline the building blocks of your foundation, they become your guide as you learn the curriculums lessons and purpose.
These principles are the foundation and cornerstone of the program's proven success for horses and equestrians. They represent a well-rounded, comprehensive, inclusive education designed to develop a lasting foundation.
A successful and lasting foundation means walking away for weeks, months, and years and picking up where you left off with your horse.
This means no more mindless lunging and riding because your horse is "hot". When you work holistically, you simultaneously exercise the mind, emotions, and body, producing a calm, relaxed and balanced horse.
No more wasting your time and money on training that isn’t aligned with you and your horse.
Investing in this program will be the beste investment you can make in yourself, your horsemanship, and your horse's health, soundness, and happiness.
What’s Included
A personalized program designed to develop you and your horse to your full potential without compromising your horse's health, well-being or happiness.
The Dream Riding Partnership Program™ is not like any other training.
To begin with, it's designed as an apprenticeship that is so thorough and complete, it teaches you how to develop, train and rehabilitate horses from the inside out, rehab to recovery, ground to riding, start to finish, beginner to pro.
It is designed to help any horse develop into their full potential and achieves this through it's three pillars of training: holism, science and classical horsemanship.
Whether you're developing a young horse, starting a horse under saddle, re-starting an older horse or showing, the program is designed to show you how to reach your potential, every step of the way
and without stress, force, pain or submission.
This is a truly transformational process for you both!
The program's training system provides a comprehensive curriculum, including a detailed table of contents, hundreds of step-by-step instructional and problem-solving videos, presentations, Q&A webinars, podcasts, worksheets, and a manual (study guide).
While the curriculum's step-by-step lessons are layered with education and skill-building techniques, they are also designed as a path for exploration, growth, personalization, problem-solving, and thinking outside the box.
The program provides a full and comprehensive curriclum designed to take any horse and equestrian from start to finish - 2nd level dressage, bitless and in professional bareback pad if your so choose.
For the professional trainer, the method will surely enhance where you currently are and in a way that supports your horse's well-being, soundness and motivation to partner.
The program is self-paced and for the average equestrian, should take 2-years to complete. Upon full payment, you receive immediate access to everything, and a personal email from Caroline inviting you to schedule an introduction and walk-through.
It doesn't get any better than this!
A virtual one-stop educational center for everything horses and more!
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Intro 1
Prerequisite for the curriculum.
This section comprises over 50 written, video and audio lessons and your study guides.
It is packed full of education, including, but not limited to, study guides (your manual), slide shows, theory, principles of training, podcasts, and inspirational videos about what you can achieve when you complete the program.
Intro 2
Supplemental Reading
This course includes approximately 38 published articles, some of which were
written by Caroline.
Topics range from bitless to barefoot, trauma, and training. Tao training philosophy, how the brain works, equine intelligence, energy,
and healing.
Intro 3
Holistic Horse Care &
Wellness Guide
This course includes 17 lessons and supplemental reading.
This guide offers a holistic perspective and approach to horse care, health, wellness, and well-being. Caroline provides you with personal experience and time-tested results ranging from all-natural nutrition, saddle fitting, and farrier to chiropractic, lameness, nutrition, equine emotions, transportation, trailering, and so much more!
Course 1
Spirituality of Horsemanship
This course comprises over 30 written,
video and audio lessons.
This course is about a way of being and working together. It is the foundation of Caroline’s work and is the "glue" that binds horses and humans in everything
they do together.
Course 2
Tao Training System
This course comprises approximately 200 lessons and 30 worksheets.
This course is the most comprehensive and expands on the first course, diving deeper and offering the necessary building blocks of knowledge and skill to develop the ground, liberty, lunging and riding foundation.
Course 3
Art of Lunging Expanded
Pilates for You & Your Horse
This course includes 17 lessons.
You will learn how to develop your horse’s movement, while learning how to ride the movement.
In addition, you are developing a deeper feel and timing of your aids, synchronized rhythm, a stronger connection with your horse, nervous system regulation, and a happy and sound athlete.
Courses 1-6: The step-by-step curriculum.
Course 4
Contact & Suppling
This course is approximately one hour long.
This course may only be an hour long, and it's packed full of approaches and techniques that you won't find anywhere else!
Students learn the importance of feel and timing when it comes to asking your horse to trust your contact and give. Horses learn how to trust and soften into contact.
Suppling is done both in-hand and riding and bitless.
Course 5
Problem-solving Strategies,
Part I
This course comprises over 25 video lessons.
This course provides more insight and education and shows you how to resolve
some of the most difficult challenges that arise when rehabbing, learning, and training.
This course follows the curriculum, providing support, insight, and strategies for the most complicated lessons.
Course 6
Problem-solving Strategies,
Part II
This course includes 2 years of weekly recorded Q&A webinars with MFP students, over 100 recordings.
The webinars are unedited, with many lasting up to 3 hours each. They are a great resource for enlightenment and problem-solving.They are detailed, covering the lessons, courses, everything horses, and more.
Bonus 1
Starting the Young Horse
This course comprises 6 lessons, supplemental reading, and 4 podcasts.
This course talks (podcasts) about how and where to begin with a foal, through weanling to young horse.
It also includes a short course on starting a yearling (Blue) and how to apply
what you're learning in the program,
the first steps, and the first few days
of training.
Bonus 2
Connection & Communication Workshop
This course comprises three days and over 25 hours of unedited filming of Caroline, her students, and their horses.
This workshop shows you how to apply the program's spirituality course's theory and practices to any horse, helping dysregulated and distrustful horses become more regulated and trusting.
Bonus 3
Riding as One™
(Art of Connected Riding)
This course comprises two days and over 18 hours of unedited filming of Caroline, her students, and their horses.
This course covers lunging and riding in the program and shows Caroline working with students in real-time as they go through the lunging, permission to get on, and riding lessons.
Receive these GIFTS for free when you join!
Bonus 4
Holistic Horsemanship Mini-Series
Designed as a prelude to the Dream Riding Partnership Program™!
This introductory course shows you how the Dream Riding Partnership works, highlighting the amazing effectiveness and positive power of holistic training
for you and your horse.
The series is comprised 19 video lessons, 13 written lessons, and a 13-page workbook. While it is designed to be completed in a 14-day window with your horse, you will have immediate and lifetime access!
3 Introductory Modules: Preparation is key!
What Makes It Work
We incorporate the following four modalities into our training method. When combined, they produce the most self-regulated, versatile, confident, happy,
and safe horse-human partnerships possible.
#1 Spiritual
The program offers a personalized learning journey for you and your horse that embodies spirituality, personal exploration, and growth.
This journey is unique to each two- and four-legged student, and is what makes it special, meaningful, and enriching for both.
#2 Holistic
While the program teaches basic to advanced mechanics, skills, and biomechanics, the holistic approach teaches you to attune and assess your horse’s needs as an individual, learner, and partner.
This makes the teaching and learning process enjoyable and meaningful for horses and humans, thus motivating, enriching, and inspiring.
#3 Scientific
Caroline is an expert in rehabilitation. She knows what's needed first and foremost in training, and unfortunately, too often, it's not about relationships or connections. Most horses need self-regulation first to be open to relationships and connections.
You will also learn the science of movement and neuroscience, providing
you a comprehensive education in equine behavior, psychology, instincts, and physiology.
#4 Classical
Caroline teaches a way of riding that is unparalleled. Combining classical training (she is a certified Working Equitation instructor) with energy alignment theory and practices, Caroline teaches you how to ride as one with your horse in heart coherence, thought, and movement.
Her knowledge of classical training provides a training system that teaches you how to develop your and your horse's potential without compromising integrity, well-being,
or spirit.
Choose Your Package
All three packages include the full program.
Like you, our community is filled with equestrians who want the Beste for their horses.
If this resonates with you we would be delighted to have you join our global community of equestrians!
Both the Gold and Platinum Packages come with BONUS courses.
Please click here for details about each course.
The Platinum Package offers the complete library of Caroline's training and is the best plan for professional trainers seeking deeper knowledge and refined skills and those seeking certification.
GOLD
Includes Lifetime Access to:
Everything in the
Dream Riding Partnership Program!
+
Our #1 best selling course:
Bitless, Balanced, Confident Rider Course
$2,645 VALUE
$1,999
$199.90*/mth
TWO OPTIONS:
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$400
*Lifetime access once 12 payments are made.
PLATINUM
Apprentices, Trainers & Passionate Learners
#1
Includes Lifetime Access to:
Everything in the
Dream Riding Partnership Program!
+
5 Additional Programs
Bitless, Balanced, Confident Rider Course
OTTB (any horse) Retraining Course
Video Library & Monthly Coaching
$5,133 VALUE
TWO OPTIONS:
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$600
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Course library - sold separately or packaged above
Not ready to make the commitment to the Mastery Foundation Program, no worries! The Tao of Horsemanship Academy offers single courses for purchase.
Caroline Beste
Founder, Teacher & Educator
A lifelong artist and equestrian, Caroline has spent her life observing nature, specifically the wild horses of the Assateague and Chincoteague Islands. This
is where she learned about the horses' true nature, behaviors, and secret language, inspiring her to develop her signature and proven training method, the Tao of Horsemanship.
After twenty-five years of working with thousands of two—and four-legged students, Caroline has mastered the only proven training system that works for horses and people, the Dream Riding Partnership Program.
Caroline’s program teaches a holistic, science-based, and classical approach to developing horses and humans together, from the inside out, from the ground to riding, from start to finish, rehab to recovery, beginner to pro. It’s that complete and fulfilling; it covers it all.
In addition to being an educator, artist, and student of the horse, Caroline is an international clinician, certified Working Equitation Instructor, and relationship, rehab, and riding foundation specialist.
Caroline offers the largest, most comprehensive, holistic online educational platform, The Tao of Horsemanship Academy. It hosts a variety of courses and in-person programs produced and personally taught by Caroline and her beloved schoolmasters.
Caroline lives on their majestic 20-acre farm outside Ocala, FL with her two and four legged family. They enjoy family time, movies, cooking, gardening, nature, water, and the outdoors.
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Will more lessons or courses be added in the future?Yes, new lessons are added to the program each year, and in the form of a closer perspective, or break down, of the lessons already provided.
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How long will it take me to develop my horse’s ground and riding skills using your program?For the average horse owner, who owns 1-3 horses, you can satisfactorily complete the entire program in 2 years. This means you would need to work 3-5 sessions a week and with the easiest horse first. The more challenging the horse, the more you will need to learn and know. The program offers it all and in stages. First, you must learn the basics, which the program teaches you. Once you develop the first level of foundation, you can dive deeper into the lessons and method, learning what you need to specialize in rehabbing and retraining, as well as refinement and advanced liberty and riding.
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Does this program work with traditional training and disciplines?No, and yes. The program offers an entirely new and different methodology for developing horses, with a focus on ethical, pain-free training, building blocks, compassion, patience, and consensual partnership. This means NO bits, spurs, excessive aids, force, or stress. Should you enjoy competing and showing and want a better training and learning experience for you and your horse, this method will enhance your current situation and increase your horse's desire to be with and work with you.
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Does this program work for older horses?Yes. While some older horses are jaded and can take longer to learn new ways of being, doing and perceiving, some learn faster, it just depends on the horse’s nature and nurture (experience), temperament and learned behaviors. The program teaches you how to figure all of this out.
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What is the difference between your holistic training method (program) and natural horsemanship?The Dream Riding Partnership Program's (DRPP) holistic horsemanship training creates real, authentic connection, whereas natural horsemanship creates mechanics. The DRPP's method focuses on four holistic guiding principles designed to create a deep and lasting level of connection, communication, consensual partnership, and safety. They are, in this order, attunement, grounding, energy connection, and dwell time. In addition to the 4 guiding principles, DRPP's method includes the science of coherence and regulation, which is the key to ensuring the horse's well-being, fostering a sense of empathy, and achieving a successful training process without force, excessive pressure, or submission. Too often, natural horsemanship and general horsemanship practices are founded on the principles of pressure and release, repetition, and force. In horses, this creates a dysregulated nervous system, flight/fight response, or learned helplessness. In the end, holistic horsemanship teaches you a compassionate and natural way to work with horses.
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Does this program offer certification?The Dream Riding Partnership Program is an apprenticeship program for students wanting to become certified. Passing the program with excellence is the first step to achieving certification at the foundation level. Should you be interested in more information, please contact caroline@taoofhorsemanship.com.
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Does this program work for all horses and riders?Yes. The program is about foundation and finesse. When you have a solid and correct ground and riding foundation, you and your horse can maintain and progress easily. Without a solid foundation you will have gaps, holes, stagnation, and continued challenges. The program accomplishes this by combining the core teachings of classical horsemanship, holistic horsemanship and the latest science. When combined the following philosophies and practices create what we all seek in ourselves and in our equine partners: a well-adjusted, well-balanced, confident, and agile learner and athlete.
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Can I use this course to re-train or rehabilitate a horse?Yes. The program focuses on teaching you how to assess, learn and rebuild your horse while developing a safe and solid ground and riding foundation.
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Do you have certified instructors?No, not currently. Caroline Beste is the only person certified to teach in her method.
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Can I start a young horse or weanling with this program?Yes. The program begins with bonding rituals, relationship building, developing authentic connection and conversation. These areas create the foundation of trust and confidence needed in our young horses to be confident and open learners moving forward.
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What type of access do I have?Upon full payment, you have immediate and lifetime access to everything. You can also access the program from any device, anytime and anywhere there is reliable internet.
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How does this program work for show horses?While the program can enhance any performance horse and rider, it’s core beliefs and practices are not aligned with traditional training methods. It is an ethical and compassionate training program and does not endorse pain, pressure and release tactics, excessive aids, bits, spurs, or force when training or developing horses as professional athletes and performers.
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