WHAT IS
SUSTAINABLE HORSE TRAINING
Sustainable Horse Training is horse training that focuses on optimizing the long-term mental stability and physical prowess of horses using very simple, structured training techniques. Based on the methods I learned from Timo Ameruoso, my mentor and instructor, I coach and train people and horses for the ideal horse-person relationship.
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FOR WHOM IS
SUSTAINAble HORSE TRAINING
Sustainable Horse Training is for troubled horses, traumatized horses and horses that are "just perfect, except for ...". If your horse has tension, nervousness, trouble with holding hooves (cleaning or ferrier), trouble loading, spooks, bucks, bites; if your horse has stress symptoms like cribbing, weaving, not standing at the mounting block or any other symptoms that show its behavior is not stable and predictable, then Sustainable Horse Training is for your horse, and I'll show you how.
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​ANYONE and EVERYONE who is interested in bettering the relationship to your horse, understanding the horse's needs and communication. It is for anyone experiencing trouble with their horse(s) or just wanting to improve something, mental or physical. It is for anyone with a young horses, old horses and those in between. This training for people looking for far more effective and lasting methods than traditional ones and finally do it differently, better, putting their horse first.
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WHAT Makes SUSTAINABLE HORSE TRAINING DIFFERENT
Sustainable Horse Training is different from traditional horse training methods or horsemanship because it focuses on the root of the horse problems and not on the symptoms. Not standing at a mounting block, not loading, cribbing, spooking or biting are just a few examples of horses that need more mental stability. You will train the horse in a simple structured manner that teaches the horse to help itself in all stress situations, which solves many every day issues most people have with their horses. Instead of training each situation in a symptomatic fashion, we cut straight to the chase and focus on the long-term solution.
Similarly with horse rehabilitation and with physical conditioning, we focus on the entire horse and train in ways that horses bodies function, building muscle and condition while simultaneously letting the horse learn to balance and hold itself. You will go into the ring with a clear plan every time and watch amazing things happen with you and your horse.
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WHAT DO I NEED FOR
SUSTAINABLE HORSE TRAINING
For Sustainable Horse Training you need a horse and an open mind. Anyone can do it. Whether you want to work on your horse's psyche or physical condition, you will need few tools, just be ready for successes you hardly could dream of until now. Ideally, you could have a access to a round pen, but also I have my horses where there is none and will show you how to train them.
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WHAT DOES TIMO AMERUOSO HAVE TO DO WITH THIS?
Timo Ameruoso is my trainer and mentor. He has taught me his methods, which I use both on my horses and with my clients. Since Timo Ameruoso is both a name and a registered trademark, each of Timo's trainers has their own name for their training. I chose Sustainable Horse Training, for it is for me the essence of Timo Ameruoso's horse training method. The focus is on the core of any horse's problem, psychological or physical, and creates a lasting, long-term solutions and relationships.
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About ELfi
Elfriede Nitzsche
Sustainable Horse Trainer and Trainer "after Ameruoso"
Horse Trainer:
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Horse Trainer for Horse Psychologie "after Ameruoso"
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Coach for Rehabilitation & Physical Conditioning "after Ameruoso"
What moves me:
Horses are at the mercy of the people that keep them and their freedom is limited to the fences hold them. In removing their freedom, we have taken on responsibility. In order to live up to this responsibility, we need to be educated in the ways of the horse, not they in the way of the people. Through knowledge, we gain their respect and the ability to work and live together.
I was not a horse girl. I started my equine journey as a teenager, in Japan in a small round pen, took it up seriously in the US with hunter/jumpers, continued on to eventing and dressage. I was always handed the "problem horses" and by trial and error, found a workaround way with any horse, if, sadly without any structure or plan at the time, which made it not sustainable.
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When I moved to France and then Germany, where in both places I tried to continue riding, I became frustrated with traditional methods, broken horses and non-reproducable successes, I gave up. When my kids became interested equines, and I took it up again.
Lucky for me, I crossed paths with non other than Timo Ameruoso, who could answer the questions I had all these decades and had a method that spoke to my analytical and questioning ways.
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I am proud to be a Timo Ameruoso Premium Trainer and part of a movement to improve the lives of horses and their owners around the world!
take your training into your own hands
Horse Training in Munich, South Munich, East Munich and Southern Bavaria or upon request, other areas possible.
