ST Mastery student Louise Binge from South Africa passed Liberty 1 with her gelding Boston and with that Touchstone, she passed all 5 Touchstones in Grade 1 in the ST Evaluation Program! Congratulations! Louise has some great insights to share about the Mastery and Evaluation Program, and how it has helped her on her wonderful ST journey: "My name is Louise and my partner in this incredible ST journey is Boston, we are from South Africa. I first encountered ST in November 2016 where I watched Zaneta Georgiades instruct at a workshop. I was instantly hooked and immediately joined the ST Home Study Course, which made me hungry for more, so in February 2017 I joined the Full Mastery ST Course and had my first lesson with Zaneta in March. I naïvely told Zaneta that ST has blown me away and that I want to be an ST instructor, Zaneta must have chuckled under her breath! I had no idea what kind of journey I was about to embark on-maybe that is a good thing! At the beginning of the Mastery programme, the emails that Marijke sent out were fantastic at keeping me on track and motivated me to get up at 4:30am to study to keep up. I started to learn so much about myself (not always easy) and things about horses that I had never even thought about (a little embarrassing as I had been riding for almost 40 years). When I started to submit my Touchstones the feedback was incredible and so in-depth that it gave me a lot to work on. It is basically a lesson on paper and you can sit and watch your video and go through the comments step by step - invaluable.The ST community must be the most unique one in the horse world, everyone is so encouraging and helpful and I always feel safe to ask questions without being judged. In South Africa, we have such a great ST tribe headed by the one and only, Zaneta. Anyone who has ever met Zaneta will attest to her passion, wisdom, enthusiasm and her fantastic lessons – guaranteed to always stretch you and your horse, in every aspect. She makes you go where you didn’t know you could.
