15/06/2026
One of the biggest confirmations of my work I ever received was "I don't know what I saw, and I don't know what it was, but it looked so harmonious, almost like magic".
This was after the Mustang Makeover in Aachen. I got the same message, in the days that followed, many times over. DMs of people that I didn't know, previous MMO trainers, messages over Facebook and Whatsapp. One client said her husband even told her this, that he had tears in his eyes, even though he didn't even know anything about horses.
They all said the same thing. Didn't know what it was, but that it looked so easy and harmonious. Like magic. People said that they had cried seeing us, but had no idea why.
It stayed with me. I am still thinking about this often.
Because honestly we weren't the stars of the show, my Mustang June and I. We didn't do anything special in Aachen. It was boring if you looked at it from the show-perspective. But I had made one decision before going there, and that was that I wouldn't get my Mustang into situations that she wasn't ready to handle, and that we would be in it together.
And it felt like that, the whole weekend. It was as if we were in this big soap bubble and that everything else, the pressure, the show vibes, the nerves, was kept out of that bubble. Everything slowed down. It was very strong. We were sort of in our own world out there, and it had nothing to do with that show.
This, to me, is the horsemanship. It is not a method. It is not R+ or R-. It is also not pro- or against something. It's is mindset, an intention, and a set of principles that you can combine and put into practice, so that a horse can do the things we ask, trusting that they can do it, as if it were their own idea to do it. The goal is softness in all the things we do. From the little things to the big things.
It takes time to learn and it's like aspiring to black belt arts, never ending. But so worth it.
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