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It’s YOU who can make the biggest difference.
You’ve probably arrived at this page having heard from some of the many folks scattered around this website who’ve solved big horse health and dangerous behavior problems themselves, discovered joy and happy tears, who’ve talked about what Feel for their horse has done for their confidence and skill level and what it feels like to be so connected with their horses back with a brilliant riding seat.
So let’s talk about the elephant in the room.
If you’ve tried on-line horse courses you probably haven’t done too well with them. You’ve often been inspired, but getting their lovely results for you and your horse hasn’t been so easy and they’ve ended up in your in-box gathering expensive dust. Let’s get Corey to tell you how Fast Track is so different.
That’s Corey Mindlin, a dressage aficionado from NZ talking back in 2013. She also went nuts when she realized that we had managed to teach that supposedly unteachable Feel for your horse – and we’re a lot better and faster at it all these years later.
Let’s hit the highlights of Fast Track with some of the people who’ve done it.
Sandra’s talking about how you don’t need to practice your riding anymore after doing these lessons – in an online program. You can learn new things and enjoy yourselves instead.
That’s our Sandra campdrafting with her off the track thoroughbred Ghabbi, in outback Australia. She was talking about the advanced sports psychology meets leading edge physical therapy, meets the alternative healing that’s behind getting our stuck to the saddle, magnetic riding seat that we get so quickly – without needing to practice it – and again – in an on-line program.
No matter that it’s common to get injured in the horse world, it’s unusual for someone in our community to fall off – and that too is found in this on-line program.
Sue’s an advanced rider who didn’t even know that she didn’t feel safe on the back of a horse – until she found that glorious feeling in our on-line course – on a recording. How safe will you feel when you have a plugged in riding seat that’s kind of magnetized to your horse’s back, when your horse wants you there and when you can EFFORTLESSLY flow with their movement pretty much no matter what’s happening?
I’ve never met a bad rider. I’ve only met folks who had “stuff” stopping them from being the rider that they can be.
Deeply connected to your horse and sucked into the saddle like a magnet is our NATURAL state. That’s our expertise here – getting rid of the stress and tension that’s stopping you from being on your natural riding position, sucked into the saddle that makes practising unnecessary. And yes again, in an online program.
Our tension doesn’t simply disappear with practice – we just get used to it and then layer even more “stuff” on top! If you’ve been experiencing something closer to PTSD around a horse fall like Leanne in the picture above or if you’ve had numerous falls or maybe even bad injuries from falling off and that’s what’s bringing you onto Fast Track, then let me know that when you come into the program so I can point you to extra resources – the healing in this work is phenomenal.
Re-program your “oh shit” reactions to get you deeper into your riding seat and OUT of trouble instead of into it.
Oh mannn this feature of Fast Track is another that’s gonna’ knock your socks off.
That lovely incident happened in a five acre paddock. There are very few riders who are capable of such a brilliant automatic response and if you’re one of them then I take my hat off to you to acknowledge your skill and if you aren’t, you will be by the time you finish Fast Track.
It’s not bragging to say there’s very few riders who can do that – I’m serious. Hop on the internet and slowmo every video of a horse doing a big play up – even riders on the world stage who train every day – and watch them tense up, grabbing with the reins or legs and making it worse. This hands flowing forwards and deeeeep seated automatic response to something unexpected was possible because of a lesson that is the crowning glory at the end of the Fast Track program.
That lesson is where you get to re-program your own “oh shit” reactions – where you re-program your brain’s neural pathways and muscle memory, so that your new reactions get you OUT of trouble instead of into it – exactly as Steve had already done before 18 hands of sweet Oliver launched into the air with such delight.
I invite you to read that again, because it’s so extraordinary. You won’t find this anywhere else in the world – the ability to re-program your instinctive reactions so they get you OUT of trouble instead of into it. It’s advanced sports psychology meets cutting edge physical therapy meets alternative therapy – and it’s just one of the reasons we can call Fast Track FAST.
Are you going to be ready with flowing hands, a deeep magnetized seat and sweetly sliding joints if ever the sh*t hits the fan?
A beautiful riding seat is the foundation and here’s my secret for that.
Thankyou for the demo Donna!
Here’s my secret. I take people off their horse for some of the riding lessons in Fast Track, where you can focus completely on yourself without worrying about what your horse is doing. Even though Steve on Oliver is a very advanced rider who rode on the world stage, I took him off his horse too. You’ll read later how he was blown away by the progress he got in such a short period of time, even though he’d been sixty years learning and had learned from some of the best in the world in his 3 and 4 star eventing career.
We get that progress really fast, because when you don’t have to keep any part of your mind on your horse, it’s so much easier to understand and release tensions or fears or anxieties, fix those stuck spots, brain glitches and uneven’nesses – releasing the tension from old falls, even traumas – re-program your brain and muscle memory and give you a brilliant riding seat really FAST.
Then we take that new riding seat out to your horse with more innovation that is so delicious and so enjoyable for you and your horse both that you’ll wonder why riding wasn’t always taught like this.
And yes, that’s STILL in an on-line program!
So what about the horse side of Fast Track?
That’s my Bobby galloping down the paddock the day after his retirement at 27 years old.
Did you already read on the Home page about our Release, Re-Learn and Re-Program formula that means that your horse only has to learn something once to know it? That works even for an old horse with crappy behavior who had crappy training?
It’s at home where the magic happens and the horse side of Fast Track starts from the moment you walk out to get them and continues in everything you do with them. You’re steadily building your Feel in everything that you do, getting better and better at it, as you help your horse to let go all their old stress and tension – to find the joy together, to become the happy co-operative partner and for their bodies to heal the way they were designed.
Let’s take something basic as an example. If a foal had a halter wrestled on them like my Sunny did, the stress of that is still inside them, causing a tension that doesn’t disappear when you put your foot in the stirrup.
It’s the same with being taught to lead. How many horses were taught to lead by being pulled in the halter? How many horses pull back when they get a fright? Again, that stress and tension doesn’t disappear when you put your foot in the stirrup. It’s layered onto every other thing that you do with them.
How many horses are tight and tense with their feet? That photo of Sunny being trimmed at liberty in the photo above? She used to be lethal. The stress and tension in our horse around feet doesn’t disappear when you put your foot in the stirrup.
Or around being forced on the float or scared once they’re in there.
Separation anxiety doesn’t disappear when you put your foot in the stirrup either.
Every stress and tension is cumulative, then we think this is a nervy horse or a stubborn one or a naughty one.
That difficulty in the saddle, that stiffness, the horse that sticks their head in the air and pulls on the reins, that horse who doesn’t seem to learn easily – that all changes as you steadily Release all that old stress and tension, Re-Learn with gentleness and curiosity and even eagerness and Re-Program their mind and muscle memory with curiosity and joyfulness.
The rest of the program details is a bit like that TV ad that gets to the end and then adds six steak knives. There’s so much depth and so many angles to this life changing program. If you want to know more, click here to read on for what your six steak knives could turn out to be.
Let’s look at some different sorts of problems. What if any nerves, tension or worries are actually the sensitivity that will make you a brilliant rider? And what if you can experience that shift in perception and find inner peace and happiness?
Read those words in that picture again. Hannah was already a brilliant rider, but she had a problem. Enjoyment is a foundation of this program and my commitment to you.
Ten tons of weight comes off you AND your horse when you understand why we experience fear and use any nerves, anxiety, worry and tension as the gift of brilliant horsemanship that it will be.
I know, that’s a big claim hey? I can PROMISE you this because I’ve experienced the release of chronic fear myself AND I’ve long lost track of how many people I’ve helped to understand and change those crappy feeling feelings into competence and confidence and being really good with horses.
If overwhelming nervousness or anxiety is your motivation for coming onto Fast Track, then let me know when you purchase the program, so I can support you with more resources and make sure that happens for you.
Problems? I guarantee you – I absolutely guarantee you – that the solving of whatever problem you have, will give you the skills, the knowhow and deep connection with your horse that will take you closer to that dream of yours and maybe even something better.
This is Pye again. Mannn he was a brilliant people trainer! Biting, kicking, weaving, aggressive at feed time, leaping around on the end of a lead rope, don’t want to get caught, barging into you, don’t want to walk forward, balking, napping, stubborn, rearing, hate being saddled and bridled, float and trailer loading problems, can’t hold their feet up….
– Fast Track gives you the skills, the knowhow and the support to solve all these “problems” yourself in our gentle, horse guided way and your horse will LOVE you for it.
And I guarantee you – I absolutely guarantee you – that the solving of whatever problem you have, will give you the skills, the knowhow and deep connection with your horse that will take you to something even better than just solving the problem.
Pye in the pictures above went from a snappy snarly biting bucking rearing bronc who was attacking people in the field, to the second photo where you see him loving up with Melanie and they did it in just weeks. (I told you this stuff is fast lol! ) Learning how to solve Pye’s problems catapulted Melanie’s horsemanship into excellence.
Sometimes our horse skills help us with life dreams too. Our Caroline had visited Mel in England and reminded me. “Following the work with Pye and the change that happened with him through Fast Track (and the on-line clinic that she did later), you forgot to mention the change in Mel and how it rippled out to the rest of her life. Her confidence shot through the roof. There was a massive shift in her (which is a bit too personal for here) – that included world travel and a change in her life in general.”
If solving a particular behavior problem is your motivation for coming on Fast Track, then that too is part of my commitment to you. Tell me all about it when you purchase the program so I can point you to whatever in 20 years worth of extra resources will be most useful to you.
What if healing your horse’s back problems were an opportunity to step into a whole new level of brilliance with them and then that brilliance was how you reached your dream?
We can RIDE our horse to wellness!
I’ve seen that happen over and over again – people riding their horse to wellness. This is Pye again – his damaged back in the photo above, was caused by riding and stress from the way he was handled and ridden. There’s a school of thought that says we shouldn’t ride and yes, vast amounts of what I see happening out there in the world IS damaging their horse’s back – and people are riding those damaged backs. Kissing spine, sacro-iliac problems, pelvic problems, arthritis, shoulder problems, damaged knees can be caused by accidents but are also caused by the way we were taught to ride them – and we can change that – and we can heal that – with what we learn on Fast Track.
It’s not only possible to ride a horse with a strong back who can carry us with strength and ease, it’s possible under certain circumstances and with the right preparation, to heal their backs WHILE we are riding them. In fact sometimes, it actually takes the ridden part to finish off the healing.
What if this kind of knowhow, this skill, this depth of connection with your horse that you’ll develop to help your horse’s back to heal, is EXACTLY what you need to reach your dream? Are you starting to see the consistency around problems not only being opportunities, but GIFTS?
It’s not just back problems that you get to solve either.
If healing for your horse is your motivation for coming on Fast Track, then this too is part of my commitment to you – let me know when you come into the program so I can point you to a vast amount of extra resources, there’s twenty years of them.
Separation anxiety. The stress and tension of that doesn’t disappear when you put your foot in the stirrup – it’s there ready to bite you on the butt in EVERYthing that you do!
Mannn I’ve watched trainers on the world stage battle with difficult horses unnecessarily and send them home having actually LEARNED stress and tension in everything they do – all because of not dealing with the initial separation anxiety. Horses don’t need to be drilled with stuff over and over again to learn it. Even young horses can learn easily with enjoyment and older horses embrace the change gratefully.
Conversely, when we help a horse to solve separation anxiety, the tension release has a positive effect on EVERYthing that they do. They move better, their bodies can start to heal, they live longer and they just love us for it. The soul bond that is created when we help our horse release separation anxiety and be confident with us is simply – “gorgeous” is too plain a word for it.
What if this horse’s separation anxiety is actually an opportunity to get the skill and knowhow that will do a LOT more than fix separation anxiety? What if that would enable you to fix any other trauma, or resistance or defensiveness or stubbornness? Can you feel me smiling? How would THAT help you reach your horse dreams?
Your horse’s freedom from unnecessary fear and trauma is part of my commitment to you and them. If your horse is suffering from separation anxiety and that’s your motivation for coming onto Fast Track, then email me when you come into Fast Track, so I can point you to our wide variety of resources and support to help you to solve that.
What if the things you learn in order to solve your trailer loading problems are the exact same things that will make your horse dreams possible?
Once upon a time, a long time ago… I used to earn my living trailer training. The idea of that makes me smile wryly now, even though I was very good at getting horses on trailers.
Not only did I miss the opportunity to release tension and trauma back then, the owners missed out on the opportunity of the deep feeling of joy that happens when they help their horse themselves. Trailer loading becomes an opportunity to understand and connect with their horse at a deep level and to learn the skills and the knowhow that makes trailer training a simple step by step matter – even for a scared and seemingly stubborn horse.
You’ll be surprised at how those same skills and knowhow and deep connection with the inside of your horse are the same skills, knowhow and deep connection with the inside of your horse that will make it possible for you to reach your other horse dreams.
You think “world class horse person” is too big a stretch? We have BEGINNERS here with flashes of “it” and the magic that flows from being able to use your Feel for your horse and I look forward to smiling with you about this on a live event one day!
I’ve met people who helped me get better at teaching this magic ingredient that is at the heart of every great horse man and woman, but I never met anyone I couldn’t teach to do it. There’s that “every problem is really an opportunity” again, those times applied to myself. 🙂 Feel for your horse is where the magic happens – it’s the key that unlocks everything wonderful about horses. EVERYONE has this brilliance inside them, just waiting to be tapped and we have the support on Fast Track to make sure you find it and I am committed to it.
What if whatever’s going on with your horse will help YOU to feel better – even heal?
There’s so many things that we experience as we birth children, get older and suffer injuries and illness, that we put up with unnecessarily. No I’m not saying that you can fix everything, but crikey you can improve vast amounts and even fix an awful lot of things that people have resigned themselves to putting up with.
How? What if understanding how to help whatever issue with your horse that brought you here, is the opportunity for YOUR healing too? There’s this gorgeous thing that happens on Fast Track where people help horses and horses help people. The mutual feel-good and the mutual healing is a powerful and beautiful thing. If healing for yourself is your motivation for buying Fast Track, then let me know, because I have heaps of extra resources for you too.
This is a great time to talk about depression and burnout and how by understanding our horse so beautifully, we can do the pffft! thing as we get rid of depression and burnout too.
Oh man this is so big I’ve got goosebumps and I’m a bit teary writing it. Getting rid of the milder types of burnout and depression happens quite quickly for many people on Fast Track, as they understand how their connection to others has caused the overwhelm that caused the shutting down and sheer exhaustion that is depression and burnout. That pfft! – the speed of crappy feelings disappearing – is quite real and it happens that fast when that avalanche of understanding hits about WHY you’re in that state.
Severe depression – people who have suffered for longer and deeper – they might need more support. The unlimited one on one live support in Ease and Grace is one way of getting that, but if that’s beyond your financial means, then you can still get there. You’ll be surprised at the steady progress you can get within the Fast Track online program. You can take advantage of the Fast Track student’s priority to work with me one on one in our free events, plus email me when you come into Fast Track so I can point you to extra resources and support, including ways to help you get rid of the physical causes of depression (which gives most people a leap into feeling a lot better). You can always add private healing sessions if the depression is really old and particularly difficult. There’s always a way although you’ll be surprised at how much healing you can achieve with the standard Fast Track program.
Attention healers, teachers, vets, feet trimmers, stud workers, nurses, social workers, youth and aged care workers, people who work with horses in therapy modalities – solve or prevent burn out, get your joy happening in your work, your life and your horses and increase your skills at the same time.
Why do you think so very many people drop out of these industries so early in their careers? The statistics are shocking. The same sensitivity that can be an exhausting and sometimes even a scarey burden when we don’t understand it, is the same sensitivity that makes these people brilliant with their jobs – when they understand how to use it as the gift that it is.
Healers, social workers, nurses, youth and aged care workers specially come across difficult situations (that’s my Aussie understatement there) – come across difficult situations that are wayyy beyond most people’s experience. HOW do you keep yourself safe? HOW do you keep your compassion and your zest for life in the face of such difficult things that you see in your work far too often? How do you even make sense of it sometimes?
Learning how to use your Feel and have fun with your own horse will open you to a whole new world of possibilities to enjoy your job, keep yourself safe in difficult situations and understand how to help others without losing yourself while you’re doing it.
Feet trimmers, vets, stud workers – the situations you walk into sometimes can be so unsafe it’s hair raising. Learn how to connect with any horse on a deep level and use that understanding to keep yourself safe and still be effective at your job. What a gift that is!
If you have a horse to help you, you’re particularly blessed, because they make it sooo… much easier. It’s the ultimate in getting the yummy stuff that you’re looking for with your horse and spilling that knowhow into the rest of your life.
Those of you who teach or work with horses in therapy modalities are going to have your socks knocked off at how much more impact horses have when either we or the client are helping the horse to release all their old stresses and tensions. The empowerment and healing for the client is escalated when the healing is reciprocal. If you teach or do therapy work with horses, at some point you might like to look at what your clients and students can get when you learn how to teach others with the Ease and Grace program. Pull a small group together to share the benefit?
We get such fabulous results
BECAUSE this is an on-line program
The joyfulness doesn’t come from outside of you. It comes from INSIDE you and your horse and it starts at home.
The online lessons mean that we can attend to the nuances of all the areas of your lives together at home – and at home is where the magic starts – in the everyday things you do with your horse, getting more and more Feel, more and more skill, more and more knowhow and a deeper and deeper soul bond with your horse – rippling that out into everything you do with them.
We’ve got testimonials up the wazoo, but let’s hear from a couple of folks who’ve done this lovely work and you can look at more if you want to.
Jenny’s program gave me two incredible gifts. First, the lesson that pursuing joy, happiness, lightness, and comfort with horses at all times is good and is beautiful. So often we’re told to push through, to fight it out, that frustration and fear are normal with horses, and I didn’t want to live like that—that was not the horsemanship I longed for.
– That’s Hannah Rivard and her horse Maia – she’d worked with some of the best trainers in the world and found her solution in our Fast Track program.
This double world champion wanted something different from Hannah
Kristine Nesbitt was already a double world champion when she said “I found a confidence I never had before. It was bigger than my world championships.” Yes, someone who was already a world champion – a double world champion – actually said that. The audio interview is here on the website, feel free to ask me for it but I won’t distract you right now. She said that what she got from one session here with me (her in Texas and me in Australia) was bigger than those world championships. She cleaned up a stuck spot in her riding seat that had been causing problems for months and did it in such a way that a difficult and dangerous horse was no longer difficult. But bigger than that, she resolved a life long confidence issue.
Her interview after our session was an eye opener about how even reaching the pinnacles of world championship competition is not as satisfying to the soul as the joyful connection that’s possible between a horse and rider – the joyful connection that she discovered with that dangerous horse after our session.
This beginner rider flowed with her horse, glued to the saddle in her very first spook, on her very first trail ride.
and yeah… a helmet would have been good.
“My seat was still glued in and my body naturally flowed with her and we stayed together. This was my very first shy on any horse.“
That’s Valezka in Australia. You’ll see her in some of the Fast track videos.
Hang on a minute, don’t reach for your wallet yet! Are we the right fit for each other?
I offer a “love this program or get your money back” guarantee and there’s been only two times in seventeen years that I’ve needed to refund – and it was because I didn’t get them to think about these questions:
Are you open to doing things differently?
Because we don’t get these kind of results from doing things the same old way.
Are you gentle or do you want to be?
I ask that question because I wasn’t gentle myself – I didn’t know how, because I’d been taught some pretty high pressure ways of working – but I DID want to be. Ha! I read this later and realized that back then I didn’t even know gentle could be a thing. It was my horses that took me there!
Do you WANT to be able to listen to and understand your horse? Don’t worry about the “how” yet, that’s MY job and I’ve never met anyone I couldn’t teach this to.
Are you WILLING to put feeling good with your horse as the first priority? Mannn… you wouldn’t believe how much faster things progress when you put feeling good first!
Do you have a desire to be REALLY good with horses? If you have the desire, you can achieve just about anything.
If you’ve answered yes to those questions, then it looks like we’re a match. Fast Track is a PRACTICAL, step by step pathway to bring beautiful concepts into reality and you won’t find anything like it – or results anything like it – anywhere else in the world.
You might also need to know:
As with all my programs, clinics and books – love this or get your money back.
In addition to the support of “YOUR dream is MY job”, here’s what else you get on Fast Track:
♦ First you’ll get the Foundation Principles that provide a framework for everything else you do, including getting you started on the Feel for your horse that is the hallmark of all the great horsemen and women. When you’ve soaked those up at your own pace…
♦ Then you trigger the rest of the Fast Track program – over 100 interactive audio and video lessons that step by step apply those principles for feeling good in every routine thing that you do with your horse – steadily building your Feel – including applying Feel to problem solving and the wonderful magnetic, centaur riding seat that I keep raving about.
♦ Support – as part of your support, depending on what brings you into Fast Track, I might get you to focus on a particular lesson or add something else from our 20 years of on-line resources. (Crikey has it been THAT long?) So let me know what it is that brings you to us, so I can point you to extra resources for that particular issue.
♦ More support. There’s a student only forum that contains vast amounts of specialized support for problem solving and a lovely community of like minded people. I can’t emphasize how special it is to have the support of a whole community of people who are either centered or know how to find it. There’s a section for asking me questions. There’s extra lessons on things like feet training for the feet trimmer or farrier, how to get them ready for a much easier dentist visit, solving a needle shy horse and more. It’s a quiet forum, full of people who spend time outside enjoying their horses.
♦ And even more support. Fast Track students get preference for the one on one live work with me on the free live seminars that are tongue in cheek called The Dummy Spit Anti-struggling revolution. Even if you don’t pick up Fast Track, you can register to join in those seminars and get those podcasts.
♦ Did you guess it? Even more support still! There’s an invaluable archive of seminars going back years on the student only forum – a treasure house of lessons and unedited live discussion that you can either browse through on a rainy day or I’ll point you to specific things that help you with the dream / problem that brought you into Fast Track.
♦ You work at your own pace. At the bottom of each page is the button to trigger the next lesson and you click that when you’re ready. I’ve done it that way so that even if you skim over some lessons as you go down the page to get to the button, they’ll be in your brain to come back to your attention if you need them.
♦ After the last Fast Track lesson, you’ll get a spinning wheel with links to every lesson, that you can playfully use to bring extra focus to some area of your horse life or reference a particular lesson that you want to revise.
♦ You keep your access to the whole program and the support that comes with it, “forever”. There’s no monthly fees.
♦ My “Love this program or get your money back” Guarantee.
$1500 – access and joy for a lifetime. Email me if you need a payment plan.
We also have seminars and podcasts and other free resources that I’m happy to point you to, as well as … (don’t skip over this bit) … as well as some ideas about how you might go about getting what you want here even if your wallet is empty, so email me about what brings you here. It might take me a while, but I answer EVERY email.