Together, we can redefine dressage
Prioritize your horse's well-being and foster a harmonious relationship between you and your horse. Experience comprehensive care and training solutions that ensure progress while putting soundness and pain-free, functional movement first.
Horse Training
A training program tailored to meet your horse's individual needs to promote balanced and pain-free movements can make all the difference. We work closely with a trusted team of body workers, farriers, and dentists to set you up for success and continued long-term progress, and ensure the best training outcome for your horse.
Lessons
Receive personalized online or in-person instruction to help you and your horse achieve your goals. Get the detailed and methodical guidance that is vital to help you continue to grow on your dressage journey, while deepening the connectedness with, and supporting the lifelong well-being of your horse.
Clinics with Anke
Join a group clinic, either at our home facility or at host locations, where you can immerse yourself in a collaborative learning experience, both on and off the horse. These events focus on classical principles and holistic training methods from the ground up, providing hands-on learning opportunities as well as space to observe a variety of training stages, designed to improve your horse's well-being and performance.
Educational Hub
Participate in educational events that bring the best of the industry to one central location. Now, more than ever, the industry needs a holistic approach, one that understands that everything is interlinked and works together. Take advantage of the whole vision of horsemanship to ensure the horse's voice is heard. If we are to change the landscape of dressage, it takes a village of knowledgeable people.
Experience Unmatched Compassion and Expertise for Your Horse
You're a rider committed to your horse's well-being, and you're seeking a holistic approach, supported by top equine professionals, that ensures that every aspect of your horse's health is prioritized.
Join a community that values compassion, understanding, and excellence in horse training. So much more than training; you are becoming part of a community that values the same principles of compassion and excellence. We understand the unique challenges you face and offer individualized guidance and support to help you and your horse thrive. Together, we'll foster a trusting and balanced relationship between you and your horse through steady, mindful training.
TESTIMONIALS
Anke is the only trainer I’m aware of in NSW who works in the Academic Art of Riding, which teaches the old style of classical dressage as well as the science behind it. These methods focus not on flashiness but correct movement so the horse learns true self carriage, lifting the back and poll, and holding itself in an uphill, open frame. No heaviness on the forehand and behind the vertical here. Your horse will learn to really push off the hind legs and bring its feet right under the body through groundwork first, and then riding.
On the ground, the in-hand work will strengthen the bond and trust between you and your horse, and you will begin to see how your body language influences their movement.
In the saddle you will learn lightness and refined aids that encourage biomechanically correct movement to set your horse up for a lifetime of soundness. You will learn to train your eye and will soon notice the difference between classical and modern teachings and how they affect the movement and balance of the horse. Your horse will learn to release tension and behavioural issues will begin to ease. She truly cares about every horse she works with and isn’t afraid to tell the hard truth, even if you don’t want to hear it.
If your instincts have been telling you that something isn’t right with your horse, if you are fighting them every step of the way and encountering resistance, give Anke a call. Your horse will thank you for it 🙏🏼
Lisa
Anke has been working with my young Clydesdale while he’s had a “working holiday” with her at her training facility in Minimbah. I’m so so happy with how he’s progressed and built strength and body awareness with her. 🙏🙏🙏…. Just go on her page and see what she’s about 🦄
Erin Ryan
“A different language is a different vision of life.” - Frederico Fellini.
So too, with dressage. Learning Anke’s beautiful language of classical dressage - of understanding the horse’s body and mind, of feeling into and working within the horse’s balance, of dancing not dominating - has given me a fundamentally different (and much improved!) vision of what I want to be as a rider and a coach.
Anke’s ability to sense into both horse and rider biomechanics to see how something can be improved is phenomenal. Her eye for intricate detail, tiny nuance, or the subtlest shift of the horse or rider’s body mean that lessons are fascinating, intense, and hugely rewarding.
Thanks to Anke, my horses are working and performing better. But more importantly the work is developing them; making them stronger, more balanced, and more capable. Anke’s work has even improved my eventing horse’s jumping, because she has learnt new ways to use herself.
In a lesson with Anke, be prepared to question everything you ‘know’ to be true. But the rewards are rich for riders who dare to do dressage differently, and Anke is just the person to help you with that.
Marcia Williamson
