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Becoming One with Your Horse
Discovering the Spirituality of Horsemanship

The Foundation to All Things Possible with Horses

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Learn how to become one and move as one with your horse!

She was also one of the most dangerous and challenging horses to work with. Like so many horses, she was used, misused, and misunderstood, at an early age. By the time she was 3 she was broken, angry, violent, and impossible to touch let alone ride.

 

When the rescue called me to come get her, I was her last hope. She was going to be euthanized because she had attacked several volunteers including children.

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I gave her a year off so she could be a young horse and during this time I gradually, consistently and lovingly showed her how to trust again and feel safe around people.

 

 

That's what this course is going to teach you and so much more!

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In addition to learning how to become one with your horse - in mind, movement and relationship, the spirituality aspect of this course works on you and with you, teaching you the many aspects, and subtle nuances, of Being in relationship and working in harmony with horses.

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The secrets to my success with horses is founded on three core principles to well-being and are the key to motivating horses to want to be with you and work with you: relationship, regulation, and flow. The key ingredient to achieving all three is energy.

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Horses are masters at sensing, connecting, and using energy. Their nervous system is hardwired to receive and process energy frequencies for survival. This is what makes them one of the most sophisticated prey animals, their ability to "feel" the changes in energy through their body and like a barometer, understand what that energy means. 

Energy is also part of their subtle, non-verbal language and how they silently connect and communicate with each other. It's how they choose friends and partners too. Like the law of attraction, like energy attracts like. When a wild horse wants to be accepted into a new herd, they will find the horse most like them and mirror them at a distance until the horse they are mirroring accepts them and invites them in.

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This is what I refer to as finding flow and choosing the path of least resistance when developing relationships and partnerships with horses. This course will teach you all about this, the language of Equus, so you can connect and communicate as they do, easily, clearly and congruently in heart, mind, and body.

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This is the secret “glue” I often talk about in my videos that binds the two of us so we can be one in everything we do together. It's also how we develop a bond so strong our horses will want to be with us, take care of us, and protect us.

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In addition to learning this way of Being, connecting, and communicating with our horse, you will learn how to work with your horse holistically, from the inside out, developing them from the ground up and in a way that works best for them. This means you will learn your horse, its needs, personality, fears, triggers, and potential.

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If this sounds too good to be true, trust me, it isn't. Just take a look at my Youtube videos for student testimonials and my connection with the horses I partner with. You can see the pure love, connection, communication and willing partnership I have with my horses, and every horse I've touched and had the honor to work with.

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Sundance and Caroline Beste

This level of connection will allow you to communicate subtly, using the power of your heart and mind, joining it with another being, your horse – in everything you do together.

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Our Story...How It All Began

This course is dedicated to all the horses out there, who like Sundance, got a really bad start
in life and needed that special someone to show them how to heal from their pain,
trust again and choose partnership with humans.
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Discovering the Spirituality of Horsemanship through the Art of Liberty & Lunging is the foundation of your relationship and riding success.
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What’s Included

 

For starters, this course is loaded with step-by-step training videos, tutorial and study guides, meditation practices to center and ground you and your horse, energy and embodiment practices so you and your horse learn to move as one, liberty lessons and Caroline's amazing Art of Lunging for balance, self-carriage and collected movement.

All of these materials will teach you how to allow the relationship to guide the training process, develop connection before mechanics and how foundation means forever.

While you are learning the mechanics of developing your horse on the ground, you will be developing the relationship of your dreams, the foundation for everything possible with horses. You will the learn how to test and refine through a series of step-by-step liberty,
ground/online and lunging exercises. These exercises have been personally designed by me and proven to work with every horse I've ever rehabilitated and developed and that's thousand of horses.

 

I guarantee this process is the beste way to connect deeply, communicate clearly
and develope the movement before you ride the movement.

 

While you are learning how to embody energy and move as one with your horse on the ground, you will be balancing chakras, creating self-regulation in your horse, and flow - in everything you do together.

 

And, that's not all! In addition to developing the relationship of your dreams with your horse, you will be developing deep levels of trust, confidence and safety - a level of safety that keeps you and your horse connected and confident!

 

While this course is the foundation for all things possible with horses it does not include riding. If you are interested in Caroline's master riding foundation course (Spirituality course included), please contact Caroline@taoofhorsemanship.com.

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Level I: Becoming One with Your Horse

Caroline Working with Horses
Module 1 Lessons
  • Welcome to the Course!

  • Principles & Theory Introduction

  • Spirituality of Horsemanship Tutorial

  • Introduction to the Spiritual Approach

  • Language of Equus

  • Tuning In - becoming attuned and a tuning fork

  • Intro to Caroline’s Method & Approach to Being and Working with Horses

  • Connection and Conversation, What Does it Look Like?

  • learning How to Work with Different Horse Natures

  • Intro into Chakra Energy, Aligning Mind, Body & Soul

  • Review of Week 1 and What to Expect in Week 2

Module Two Lessons
  • Becoming What Your Horse Needs both in
    the Relationship and the Work

  • Continued Strategies

  • Love and Leadership - what it means to be unconditional, objective and clear

  • Preview of Week 3

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Caroline Lunging Horse
Module Three Lessons
  • Power of Intention, Energy and Movement

  • Presence and Embodiment

Module Four Lessons
  • Purpose

  • Power of Our Thoughts, Intention & Embodiment

  • Intuitive Knowledge

  • The Chakra System & How it Works

Chakras
Caroline Demonstrating Liberty Techniques With Horses
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Working With a Horse on the Lunge Line

Level III: Art of Lunging Explained & Demonstrated

  • Lunging Styles Overview – PDF tutorials

  • Overall View & Purpose of Each

  • The Beginning: Close Circle, Connected Lunge

  • Shoulder-in Lunge

  • Straightness Training – Free Lunge

  • Straightness Training – On-line Lunge

Level II: Working with Your Horse in Mind, Movement & Relationship
Module 1 Lessons
  • Liberty & Join Up, part I: Staying connected and coming to you

  • Liberty & Join Up, Part II: Beginning the close circle lunge work

  • Liberty & Join Up, Part III: Purpose & practice of the partner walk

  • Lungeing & Liberty, Part I: Close lunge circle con’t – working on the trot

  • Lungeing & Liberty, Part II: Close lunge circle con’t – developing self-carriage and balance at the trot

  • Lungeing & Liberty, Part III: Developing the collected canter departs, Part V-1

  • Lungeing & Liberty, Part IV: Developing the collected canter departs, Part V

  • Lungeing & Liberty, Part V: Free lungeing and transitions

  • Lungeing & Liberty, Part VI: Change of direction

  • Lungeing & Liberty, Part VII: Now we play!

  • Lungeing & Liberty, Part VIII: Review and change of direction steps

  • Lungeing & Liberty, Part IX: Free lungeing progress with Jeaneen and Leeta

  • Lungeing & Liberty, Part X: Review and tweaking of the free lunge; introducing the change of direction with Jeaneen and Leeta

  • Lungeing & Liberty, Part XI: Lungeing lesson with Nadia and Dekho – embodiment and the 3 R’s, Part I

  • Lungeing & Liberty, Part XII: Lungeing lesson with Nadia and Dekho – embodiment and the 3 R’s, Part II

  • Lungeing & Liberty, Part XIII: Lungeing lesson with Nadia and Dekho outside

Module Five Lessons
  • Power & Purpose of Chi Energy

  • Experiential Learning, NLP & Kinesiology

  • Chakras 1 & 4- Purpose & Exercises; Grounding and Join Up: Exercises to Develop the Foundation for Ease and Mind-Body Connection

  • Chakras 2 & 3- Join-Up Through Movement: Exercises to Maintain Connection & Communication While Working & Training

  • From Unity in Liberty to Riding Bridle-less: How it Translates

Level IV: Problem-solving Strategies Short Course

  • Beginning the Work (8 videos)

  • Working with Different Natures and Learned Behaviors (6 videos)

  • Lunging to Develop Mental & Physical Agility (2 videos)

  • Re-starting the Riding Horse (7 videos)

  • Understanding Nature & Learned Behaviors (2 videos)

  • Assessing the New Horse (2 videos)

  • Starting the Lunge & Problem-solving continued (2 videos)

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In addition to what’s included in your membership, you receive the following BONUSES for FREE!
Tutorials & Study Guides
Tutorials & Study Guides
Tutorials & Study Guides
Everything Horses & More! Podcasts
Everything Horses & More! Podcasts
Understanding Horses Short Course
Understanding Horses Short Course
MasteryMembership Program Weekly Q&A Webinars
MasteryMembership Program Weekly Q&A Webinars
Meditation Practices
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Wait, That’s Not All! There's More!
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Join Students from Around the Globe

Join students and riders from all over the world who, like you, want to learn how to begin their horses training and foundation using a compassionate, positive and progressive training system.

Monique

Just what I’ve been searching for and needing in my life and my horsemanship! This course is so much more than horse training too. It is about me, understanding myself so I can better understand my horse’s response, reaction, to me. The newfound connection I now have from this course and with my horse is beyond words and only imagined in dreams! I feel so confident, safe and am enjoying my horse more than ever thanks to you, Caroline - Monique, Sweden

Maggie

I am absolutely LOVING this course.  It has taught me so much about myself, my horses and working with them at liberty.  Everything I have seen you do, every lesson you have taught has all been exactly what I need.  I am learning so much! Maggie

Lisa

LOVE this course! Incredibly great information, wonderfully demonstrated My horses and me thank you😊 Lisa

Kellie

Hi Caroline, thank you for sharing your method. It is truly a gift to all horse owners.  I look forward to using them on my new mare that I purchased in November. She has such a SWEET disposition and gives 100%, but like most has experienced trauma and has some triggers. I am restarting her using your method.  I tried this exercise you mentioned in this video in her stall. It was a rainy week and I could not lunge or work her.  Soo, we worked on grounding and tuning in. The grounding works like magic. Wow!  Now, each I arrive to the barn my mare nickers with excitement and will leave her hay to be with me. Thank you so much and I look forward to working with you. 
Kellie

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About Caroline

Caroline Beste is an internationally recognized Riding as Oneâ„¢ Horse Trainer and instructor, equine behavior specialist and holistic educator. She is best known for her personal coaching style and intuitive approach to teaching people and training horses.

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Caroline’s method combines the Art of Horsemanship and Classical Dressage with a Taoist way of Being and interacting, with a primary focus on aligning and synchronizing horse and rider in mind (thought), body (movement) and soul (relationship).

 

Caroline believes in a holistic approach to horsemanship, providing expert knowledge and instruction for the whole horse and rider.

 

Her approach is multi-dimensional and includes the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual aspects of both the person and horse’s well-being.

 

Caroline’s vast experience in a multitude of disciplines enables her to provide expert and individualized attention to both the wellbeing and soundness of the horse as well as the management, handling, nutrition, education and athletic maintenance of horse and rider.

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Enrollment Options

$997 + BONUS

Spirituality Masterclass Webinar

Here's a reminder of what you get when you enroll:

  • Over 75 instructional & transformational videos

  • Over 50 pages of tutorial and study guides

  • Over 100 hours of recorded Q&A webinars

  • Over 100 hours of weekly podcasts with Q&A

  • Lifetime access

  • Q&A forum

6 Monthly Payments

of $179

Here's a reminder of what you get when you enroll:

  • Over 75 instructional & transformational videos

  • Over 50 pages of tutorial and study guides

  • Over 100 hours of recorded Q&A webinars

  • Over 100 hours of weekly podcasts with Q&A

  • Lifetime access

  • Q&A forum

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