🐴 At Equus Ourique, we offer customised riding lessons that are fully tailored to your individual needs. Alice, for example, came to us to overcome her fear.😱 After a bad fall, she was no longer confident in the saddle. The experienced rider loves her horses and missed competing together.
After her recovery, she initially tried to regain her self-confidence in her show stable. Together with her trainer, she ventured back into the saddle. But a few more falls tended to exacerbate her trauma. ‘Looking back, I think it was the demand for performance that got in the way,’ explains Alice today.
She found Vicky through a friend and has been coming regularly from the Algarve for a few months to train with us in the Alentejo. Her development is impressive. ‘Vicky really picked me up with a lot of empathy and her patience helped me to regain my self-confidence very gently on my own,’ says Alice. ‘She never pushed me, but always encouraged me very emphatically. We started very carefully on a very well-trained school horse, initially on the lunge. But I was soon able to ride freely in the arena again and my self-confidence grew with each riding lesson.’
In every training session, the joy and fun of being together with the horse is paramount. Alice quickly regained her confidence.🥰 Her competition coach noticed the changes as well and it helped her to better relax with him again in her trainings sessions. Today Alice is able to concentrate more on the lessons during training without constantly feeling the fear in the foreground.💪🏻 ‘I’m really very happy that I found Vicky and that she supports me so wonderfully.’
