ST Mastery student Donna Anderson from New Zealand passed Riding 1 with her gelding Rhythmic Kodak and with that Touchstone, she passed all 5 Touchstones in Grade 1!
Congratulations!
Donna has some great insights to share about the Mastery and Evaluation Program, and how it has helped her on her wonderful ST journey:
After a few weeks filled with groundwork and longeing with Romanesque, I started to combine it with work in hand.
And gradually, over the last couple of weeks, we’re progressing from doing the sequence in walk, in trot, and now also in the canter.
Of course, there’s a lot to ‘polish’ and refine, but again, the mind didn’t forget what it learned.
Therefore, the mind is not the limiting factor at the moment, it’s more the body that has to grow stronger and get more flexible so it will be more mobile, and that just takes time.
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In September 2018, the following ST Mastery Students from Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Lithuania, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, South Africa, the UK, and the US – have passed a Touchstone in the ST Evaluation Program and an ST Instructor from the UK has upgraded a Touchstone! :
The hungriest worker in the Mastery Class is always going to beat the most talented guy who doesn’t put effort into the programs.
Although it’s useful, talent isn’t everything. Of course, it will give you a head start, but you still have to work hard.
So far, the experience is, that in the end, hunger, heart, and hard work always ‘wins’.
Maybe not immediately, but in the end, hunger always wins.
In the end, hard work always wins.
Heart wins.
I’ve seen it over and over again.
Exactly one year ago, we arrived in Portugal!
And the day of arriving, I could feel that this was the right place for us: the horses where immediately comfortable and at ease, and everything was beautiful and sunny! Even my 24 yo Maestro enjoys his life here very much: he’s full of energy and neighs every morning from the full chest when the day begins (I’ll make a video of that soon).
Now moving to Portugal is the best decision we’ve made in 2017, and we’re very lucky to be able to live here and to share our horse training experiences with you from the newly built arena.
And it’s really fascinating to start from scratch after 10 months of holiday for the horses and to get back on track. It’s such a pleasure and privilege to work with them because they are very motivated, giving their all, so it’s really fun to shoot new videos.
Therefore, for the future, we have many plans to create even more value and educational videos, so we can help, inspire and serve riders from all over the world even better!
And I cannot wait to meet the new group of Mastery Students in the Mastery 2018 Class that we’re about to start in our ST Academy in September 2018!
