The Advanced Liberty Immersion
A 5-Day Head-Start Experience
9-13th March 2026
Taupo, New Zealand
This is a first-of-its-kind retreat, designed to give trainers an accelerated, embodied understanding of liberty and bridleless work by learning with both unstated AND experienced, competition-winning liberty and birdleless horses.
You will not only work with your own horse (or I can provide an unstated horse for those flying in), but also be paired with one of five advanced liberty horses, allowing you to move through foundational exercises and progress into movements most people wouldn’t experience until much later in their journey.
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THE EXPERIENCE
With Your Own Horse (or one of my Unstarted Horse)
You’ll learn my liberty foundations from the very beginning, installing skills you can take home and replicate.
You’ll work through:
• Connection and clarity at liberty
• How to read signs of tension and relaxation
• Fundamental lateral movements, including shoulder and hindquarter yield, sidepass and reinback
• Basic obstacles at liberty
This creates the technical understanding — how liberty is built correctly, calmly, and clearly.
With an Advanced Liberty Horse
Alongside your own horse, you’ll also be paired with one of my advanced liberty and bridleless horses, allowing you to feel what refined liberty truly feels like.
You may experience:
• Liberty circles
• Advanced sidepass at the shoulder (away and towards)
• Obstacle and jumping courses at liberty in a 2-acre field
• Stay & come
• Parking at the mounting block
• Trot–halt–reinback transitions
• Figure-8’s around cones
• Lay down, Spanish walk, sit, spin, rear (tricks are subject to each horse’s individual skillset)
These experiences aren’t about rushing the process, they’re about inspiration, clarity, and giving your nervous system and body a reference point for what’s possible.
The Horses
You’ll be working with some of my most accomplished liberty and bridleless horses, including:
• Patriotic
• Conquistador
• Captain
• Showtym Moonlight
• Showtym Sinatra
All are winning liberty horses. Two of these horses also perform advanced bridleless work, allowing az maximum of two participants to choose bridleless as their primary focus.
Only four places are available.
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What’s Included
• Daily private lessons with your assigned horse
• Daily demonstrations, where I advance other horses in real time, from foundations through to advanced skills
• The opportunity to observe and experience how liberty patterns are installed and progressed
• All meals provided, including fine dining and wine and cheese evenings
• Mentoring sessions focused on goals, and dream-building
• A professional equine-human portrait shoot with one of the horses you train, including:
Hair and makeup
Professional equine and human portraiture
Action shots from your sessions
• Airport pickup if you’re flying in
This is not just a clinic — it’s a retreat experience, hosted at my Wild Kaimanawa Sanctuary.
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$2,750NZD
Includes all lessons, accommodation, meals, experiences, photography, and mentoring.
9-13th March 2026
Taupo, New Zealand
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This is the ultimate equestrian getaway for someone who wants to immerse themselves in refined liberty and horsemanship. A chance to feel what’s possible, to be inspired, and to take home clarity that can transform their own journey with horses.
If liberty or bridleless has ever felt out of reach, this experience is designed to change that.
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