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.
After a couple of weeks of groundwork and longeing, we did an observing session at liberty:
Now when it comes to self-carriage, we need it both in body and mind.
And it’s a bit the chicken and the egg, what is needed first?
Well, it doesn’t matter what came first, we need both!
This means:
Now with is self-carriage in the mind exactly?
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