"...easy to follow..."
"The course content was interesting and how the course was structured made it easy to follow each point. The practical demonstrations with individual horses was fascinating."
- J. Chestnut
"...Priceless..."
"Exactly how I have always felt and intuitively got to know my horses. Understanding the actual reasoning for this is priceless. Thank you "
- D. Diovera
Coaching Deeply Caring Equestrians
to Train Emotionally Balanced Horses,
using Science, Empathy and Feel.
It is time to stop perpetuating cycles of abuse in horse training and horsemanship.
This essential Foundation Course begins your journey home to your horsemanship.
The Relationship and Performance results Emotional Horsemanship Students have with Horses, is Not Only Luck, or Talent.
It's Technique.
Technique informed by deep principles and Self Awareness Practices.
The Emotional Horsemanship Foundation Online Course teaches you the rudimentary foundations of:
THEORY & CONTEXT:
We cover subjects such as Dominance, Relaxation, Food Rewards, Affective Neuroscience and Emotional Systems in a basic, yet comprehensive manner, so you understand the EH perspective on these elements of Horsemanship.
MARE & FOAL BONDING (MFB) THEORY:
The natural phenomenon that we tap into with MFB is explained, its etymology, ethology, the body language rules and its potential application in horsemanship.
MARE & FOAL BONDING (MFB) STEP BY STEP:
MFB is shown in a three step process, in a clear, attractively illustrated tutorial that shows you this expansive technique in a clean and classical manner.
SELF AWARENESS PRACTICES:
Legacy techniques to enhance performance taught to Lockie by his mentor, Dr Paulette Mifsud, these Self Awareness Practices help you put yourself first, so that when you go to your horse you can put your horse first.
MARE & FOAL BONDING (MFB) PRACTICAL DEMO'S:
A variety of horses, in a variety of contexts help us see MFB from beginning to end, with running commentary, careful explanations, and repeating key elements to enhance comprehension
A Decade of Dedication from a Young Horse Trainer, Became an "Overnight" Success
Prior to creating the Foundation Online Course, Lockie was a struggling local trainer, instructor, mountain horseback guide and Hoofcare provider, an all round horseman, working in Spain and Poland, after retiring from a career as a professional dancer for the Polish National Ballet- the first Australian to do so. For many years, Lockie was working dual roles in dance and with horses.
Teaching in remote locations these unique techniques and principals to private owners on a one-to-one basis, rejecting a social media presence, and in the in-between hours, would evaporate into wild places with his horse Sanson.
The Pandemic struck shortly after permanently relocating to Spain, and all in-person work with horses vanished.
Horseback riding was illegal during Quarantine, so groundwork, and horse care was Lockie's only occupation now.
With nothing to lose, and finally time on his hands, he put together the Foundation Online Course using an old and unreliable laptop and an even older second hand iPhone with a cracked screen.
No lighting, no professional cameramen. Not even a tripod!
Lockie hung the old phone from an Olive tree with baling twine, balanced against a rusty 44 gallon drum and against huge logistical and financial barriers managed to create, film, edit and publish the course in 3.5 months, never having created an Online Course before.
This course showed plainly and simply how he had been working with horses and their people for the last 10 years. Terrified to publish it, expecting rejection and criticism.
Though the critics certainly came, more frequently came a different kind of person.
A type of horse person, hundreds and hundreds, and then thousands of them, who identified with this way of going with horses. Horse people who had no place that felt like home in the horsemanship world yet found it in Emotional Horsemanship.
Deeply caring horse people came out of the woodwork from everywhere, and continue to do so.
When Lockie sold the first 6 student spots, he was surprised and delighted! Now over one thousand students later, the Foundation Course continues to be added to every year and studied by horse people around the world.
This course now led itself to a range of Online Services, International Clinics, and Coaching Programs which takes people from the Foundational into Intermediate elements of this evolving horse training method.
From humble beginnings...
Not born into a horsey family.
Living in a foreign country, self employed.
This is where the Foundational Course was filmed.
On private property of a local land owner who had some space, and a shipping container, and allowed Lockie and his horses to make a start.
Humble beginnings means, temporary electric fences that regularly failed, extreme hot summers, wild winter storms, 7 day work weeks and 14 hour work days.
50,000km driven in 2 years reaching clients across Andalucia.
The beginning was very hard, nothing was given easy.
As demand grew for Lockie's services, and all the hours of the day filled, instead of pushing people away, Lockie's schedule continued to book out.
In less than 3 years, he found himself on an overseas clinic tour, teaching that which only a short time before was done on a tiny scale, in remote and forgotten corners of Europe.
Today, Lockie now lives on a small, and comfortable farm in North Western Spain, and enjoys the company of four horses.
Emotional Horsemanship is not a finished product, but a work in progress.
He gratefully extends his assistance and teachings to any deeply caring horse owner who wants his help, as much as he is able to.
In 2024, Lockie began building a team, to assist in reaching the growing community who found home in the methods he innovated.
To Change Horse Training for the 21st Century, We Cannot Continue What We Have Always Done.
We Need Fresh Faces, With Different Backgrounds, To Innovate Horsemanship That Has Been Held by Insulated Communities- for Centuries.
Inspired by Horses,
Always Inspired By Horses.
This entire endeavour, started with a horse.
Just one horse.
One horse who trusted Lockie, and nobody else.
And one client, who trusted.
Then a second, then a third.
Now thousands worldwide.
Thank you Sani.