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Train your own horse with Confidence

Transform doubt into confidence.

Do you have a nagging feeling that you could achieve more with your horse…but you’re not sure what the next step is?

Does training your own horse feel overwhelming at times?

Have you found yourself thinking ‘just being with my horse’ is enough…but you wish you could also have more?

I have faced all of these issues at some point on my own journey. Thankfully, I found solutions and I want to share them with you!

What would change if you felt doubt creeping in... but you had a plan for how to overcome it?

What if next time you headed to the barn…and things didn’t go as planned…and you felt curious and open instead of frustrated?

What would it be like to consistently reach the goals that mean the most to you?

Join me on my upcoming live webinar. That's right...not a recording. There will not be a replay.

Date: Dec 4, 2021 01:00 PM Eastern Time, (Noon CT/11am MT/ 10am PT/ 9am AKST)

Topic: The Rider's Mind: Building Relationship and Improving Results with Your Horse

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Feedback from Students

“I have been wanting to neck rein my horse for the last few years... When I saw Stacy had a new course on Steering & Neck Reining I was so excited and ordered the class and immediately started watching the modules... One of the greatest tools is the Audio Ride Guide.

Thank you Stacy Westfall for creating your Course Curriculum. Your courses and video work are very professional and right on the mark for helping us train our horses." -Linda Turner & Del

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“For many years I could never get Hildy to slow down and I really wanted to learn how to ride one-handed. I tried to get professional advice locally but no one could help me. I had pretty much lost hope on Hildy ever slowing down and being able to ride one-handed until Stacy taught me---"The Second-Hand Slide". When I learned about the "Second Hand Slide" and the "Hug" my horse totally changed!!! She slowed down, became collected, and it felt AWESOME!!! I still cannot believe that my horse can walk/trot/canter nicely, with a collected frame while I am riding one-handed. This was a HUGE breakthrough with my horse. Thank you so much, Stacy, for always providing easy to understand lessons and techniques that I can follow and apply with my horse. The results have been OUTSTANDING and I am so HAPPY!!” -Martina Brown & Hildy

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"I have gained SO much from Stacy Westfall’s 'The Complete Guide to Improving Steering and Teaching Neck Reining' course! The course helped me with my overall precision and awareness. I now have more precision with less effort!

Stacy’s videos and instructions in the course are clear and well illustrated. I love that she rides different level horses on the patterns. Especially, when she takes a college level horse back to elementary school. It really drove home the point that the concepts are layered and each individual piece is important. So if you skip, omit or cheat it leaves a hole you will need to find and fill in at some point. For either you or the horse.

It was absolutely well worth it, I thank you and my horses thank you."

Jesse F.

"The Complete Guide to Improving Steering and Teaching Neck Reining course is proving to exceed my expectations. Stacy turns concepts into actionable exercises enabling the student to develop refinement, timing and feel while training the horse. The Audio Ride Guides are an incredible asset to the coursework as Stacy’s audible coaching helps the student practice and apply the techniques while riding. No matter how many times I’ve utilized the Audio Ride Guides, I still discover something new in myself and/or in my horse. I have been having so much fun learning with this course that my sister signed up too!

Thank you Stacy for the time and work you put into developing this!!"

Ann

"Hi Stacy, I have been taking lessons on and off for about 5 years, and I recently moved to Hawaii (I’m military so I move a lot). A few months ago I began on a bossy yet well trained reining mare. She’s safe to ride, but my cues were not as concise and consistent as a more advanced rider. Last week I had a truly frustrating lesson, and the things I thought I knew weren’t working.

So, I got online and watched practically all your videos on youtube and then bought your course. I binge watched the entire thing over the weekend, over and over while practicing on an exercise ball with fake reins. Today I finally got to ride for an hour and it was incredible. I could finally communicate with this horse and focus on learning. We practiced perfect circles, isolated both the direct and indirect reins and then put them together. We were able to side pass, do shoulder in and out, reverse arch and pick up the correct leads (when before I was struggling so much with picking up the left lead), made straighter lines and worked on collected transitions. Most of all I finally understood what I was asking for and how to ask for it.

Before I thought it was all me, but now I can see that as a lesson horse she needs help too, especially getting flexion to the left. I have a lot of review, practice and learning to do, but today was a major breakthrough.

I had to tell you how thankful I am you put so much time and effort into your course. I can’t wait until the next ride now!!!! "

Elizabeth

"Thank you so much for putting together such a great course! I have listened to all your podcasts and have just about every video, but this steering and neck reining video and audio ride guide is the best yet! I am a hands-on type of learner so to be riding and having the audio ride guide playing and guiding me through each step was incredibly helpful. I would have considered my horse in the high school level with a few things that I knew he still needed work on. This Steering guide really helped me learn a new approach to teaching my horse and it really helped him improve his form and steering to the right. (which was his bad side).

I would highly recommend this to anyone whose horse needs some fine tuning or is in the beginning stages of steering, either way it is going to help you and the horse.

Thanks again Stacy for coming up with these teaching processes so easy and simple to follow."

Kathy

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AQHA Journal story on Stacy Westfall!

Stacy Westfall laughs, humbly, explaining how she almost didn’t get up the nerve to reach out to legendary three-day eventer Denny Emerson. She’d had her horses on the East Coast and thought maybe she could stop by his farm in Vermont while she was nearby. Eventing isn’t necessarily in Stacy’s wheelhouse, but horses and learning are. After a gracious invitation from Denny–because, really, who wouldn’t want Stacy to come to their barn?–she gave a mini clinic to Denny’s working students, and then he asked her to hop aboard one of his horses to play with counting strides to a jump...

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About Stacy

Growing up, I shared a love of horses with my mother but neither of us knew what we were doing. Over the years we dealt with horses that wouldn’t load into trailers, wouldn’t pick up their leads and wouldn’t stand still to be mounted. I fell off more times than I could count and was bitten, stepped on and run away with before I was old enough to drive a car. There were many, many good times too. My favorite childhood memories all involve horses (and one ornery pony.)

It took me years to develop to the point where I became a successful competitor in a male-dominated industry. The beauty of this is that it proved that true strength is a mental game more than a physical one.

I believe in creating win-win-win relationships. I can show you how to reach your goals faster if you’re willing to put in the work. Whether you love trail riding, have goals of showing or would someday love to understand bridleless riding, I can show you the way.

…and yes I still clean stalls.

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